Italian heavy/doom metal band Meursault Omega released their third full-length album »MMXXIV«

Milan, Italy based heavy/doom metal band Meursault Omega stream their third full-length album, »MMXXIV«, which was just released on November 17th, 2024.

Tracklist:
01. The Death Of A King
02. I Thirst
03. Black Sunday
04. Sad Days In Alcolu
05. Blowing From A Gun
06. Limerick Man
07. Demon Pazuzu
08. Bloody Babs
09. A Tumble-down Nook By The Sea
10. To The Core

Meursault Omega is a heavy doom band from Milan, Italy. In 2023, the solo project devised by Cliff Scott has become a real band, with Em Vee on vocals, Joe Taccone and Giovanni Fiordeponti on guitars, Blake Axenroth on drums and Cliff on bass guitar.

On »MMXXIV« are previously released tracks re-recorded in the new spirit of the new band own style.

Meursault is the main character of »The Outsider«, the book published by Albert Camus in 1942. Meursault, sentenced to death for having killed an Arab – yes, he is the same Meursault ‘killing in Arab’ in The Cure’s song – embodies Camus’ philosophy, that absurdism coupled with existentialism that Camus rejected but it’s still actual and a significative in the modern western age. Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, used for extension as synonime of ‘Death’ (I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end – Revelation 22:13). So Meursault Omega is the modern man going through is definitive end, a spiritual end more than a material one.

After the debut album »Meursault«, released in 2020, the project continues in 2021 with »Cold Thirst«, a psychedelic journey on capital death to which have collaborated many artsts of the Italian metal scene: Chiara Manese, Francesca Tosi, Asator Ægishjálmur, Simona Guerrini, Lunaria Wistful, Carlo Fiore, Matteo Venegoni. Unfortunately, Matteo died by cerebral hemorrhage in the beginning of 2021 at 33 yo. The album is dedicated to his memory.

In 2023, Cliff Scott is joined by Em Vee on vocals, Joe Taccone and John FOTB on guitars and Blake Axenrot on drums. The band is now ready for lives and new recordings.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well