Ponte Del Diavolo draw deeper into the void on new single »Nocturnal Veil«; debut album »Fire Blades From The Tomb« out February 16th via Season Of Mist!

Italian doom/black metal band Ponte Del Diavolo has unveiled new visualizer video for the third single »Nocturnal Veil« taken from their upcoming debut album, »Fire Blades From The Tomb«, set to release on February 16th, 2024 via Season Of Mist.

Tracklist:
01. Demone
02. Covenant
03. Red As The Sex Of She Who Lives In Death
04. La Razza
05. Nocturnal Veil
06. Zero
07. The Weeping Song

Courtesy of Season Of Mist:

Ponte Del Diavolo are blessed with a taste for the dark arts. These Italians weld doom and black metal into a sleek but towering force that’s just as cruel as the infamously steep bridge that medieval peasants has to cross on the way to their home country.

The band teased then danced with the devil on their previous two singles. Today, they’re pulling back the curtain on the more depraved sounds of their aesthetic.

Watch the bloody and burbling visualizer for »Nocturnal Veil« on YouTube, which was created by Daniele Brancaccio!

»Fire Blades From The Tomb« is out February 16, 2024.

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»Nocturnal Veil« billows with gloomy clarinet. But the band’s new single really shows off their bad side. Cymbals clank like chains through a pitch-black dungeon, while the riffs crack with the patient speed of a whip or the pointed finger of a siren.

“Everything is nothing”, Erba Del Diavolo chants, calling you into the void. Her croon is bewitching, beguiling and all-too-inviting.

“Let yourself be carried away by a dark mantra that brings with it images of annihilation,” says Ponte Del Diavolo. “Immensity overwhelms us, we are null.”

Early praise for Ponte Del Diavolo

“A rhythm section that sounds like thundering hooves; music that dangerously rings and swirls, like fleeing from something fatal” – No Clean Singing

“What strikes me most about the album is the sheer genre bending ability of this band. One minute, you think that you are listening to doom Metal, and then turn the screw and another sound materializes” – Metal Temple

Ponte Del Diavolo bridges the gap between two separate worlds. After all, the band are named after the real “Bridge of the Devil”, a pointedly steep road that medieval peasants had to cross on their way to Italy.

Though formed out of a friendly jam session, Ponte Del Diavolo already made for quite the eclectic pairing when the five members officially banded together during the winter of 2020 in Turin, the finely cultivated Italian metropolis. Whereas most metal bands are spearheaded by dueling guitars, this one writhes on the slick-yet-scaly back of not one but two bassists.

Their debut album, »Fire Blades From The Tomb« forges classic, cultish doom metal with modern bents of post-punk and dark wave. Lead single and opening track »Demone« is whipped along by a boiled black bassline. Heck, you could mistake vocalist Erba del Diavolo for Siouxsie Soux, the way she cooly flips between frantic talk-singing and bleak, seductive croons.

Artwork by Aura Negativa.

Line-up:
Elena Camusso (as Erba Del Diavolo) – Vocals
Alessio Caruso (as Krhura) – Bass
Andrea l’Abbate (as Kratom) – Bass
Stefano Franchina (as Segale Cornuta) – Drums
Rocco Scuzzarella (as Nerium) – Guitars

For fans of Electric Wizard, Darkthrone, The Devil’s Blood, Messa.

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