photo by Nicolò Brambilla
Following the ferocious declaration of intent laid down by 2025’s Demo MMXXV, Milan-based musician Gabriele Gramaglia offers the first full-length manifestation of LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT, In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night.
Known for his work with Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis, and numerous other entities operating within the more adventurous reaches of extreme metal, Gramaglia established LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT as an outlet for a more ravenous and instinctive strain of death metal; one driven by brute momentum, frenzied aggression and an uncompromising rawness. On In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night, that initial impulse erupts into a considerably more formidable and fully developed beast.
While retaining the layered, multifaceted songwriting characteristic of Gramaglia’s broader body of work, LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT directs that complexity toward outright pandemonium. Gritty, abrasive guitars churn through pummeling and intricate rhythmic contortions as tortured vocals howl from within the tumult and cascades of shrieking lead guitar slash across the album’s fractured landscape. Yet, beneath its seemingly unrestrained violence, lies a meticulously engineered attack: riffs twist and collide at excessive velocity, tempos lurch between hammering force and sudden acceleration, and flashes of classic heavy and speed metal emerge through the wreckage before being swallowed by the surrounding maelstrom.
In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night thrives upon this collision of precision and savagery, harnessing technical ability as another weapon in an arsenal built for maximum destructive force. LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT channels the restless imagination behind Gramaglia’s other work into something noticeably more feral and antagonistic; a sustained barrage of serrated riffing, relentless battery and deranged metallic energy. In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night tears open the gates on LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT‘s first full-length campaign with a frenzied death metal assault built to leave nothing standing in its wake.
Written, recorded, mixed and mastered between Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 by Gabriele Gramaglia in Crepuscular Sound Studio, In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night sees Gramaglia performing guitars, vocals, bass, synths, sound design, with additional vocals by Yr-nhhngr scattered throughout the record. Giorgio Trombino provides an additional solo in the ending section of “Transient Wounds, Spiritual Wilt,” Andrea Morgan performs violin and viola in “…And Therein Plant Unto Their Souls Asunder” and in “Eternal Scars And Imperative Backfires,” and Claudio Invidia handles all drums across the album. The album’s stark artwork was crafted by the refined mastery of Mariya Popyk (Assumption, Tomarum). Fans of Cosmic Putrefaction, Defacement, Black Curse, Absu, and Ascended Dead are advised to follow LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT.
With the album’s lead single, “Profaned Fountain Of Leaden Waters,” Gramaglia reveals, “In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night narrates about a sort of trespassing of malign spirits and fiends into the earthly realm, as a metaphor to how the evil that man can do can manifests itself as an invisible and subtle force, able to obfuscate rationality and guide other human beings’ choices and actions towards really dark paths. ‘Profaned Fountain Of Leaden Waters’ is a pivotal chapter in this epopee and musically it presents itself as one of the most omni-comprehensive tracks of the record, showcasing a melancholic side towards the end too (lyrically as well), as if a moment of meditation is permitted, after the storm.”
Unleash uninhibited attack of LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT’s “Profaned Fountain Of Leaden Waters” on Bandcamp HERE and YouTube HERE.
20 Buck Spin will release In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night on LP, CD, and digital formats on October 16th. Preorders are now available at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Additional previews and updates on the album will be dispatched as the album’s release draws near.
In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night Track Listing:
1. …And Therein Plant, Unto Their Souls Asunder
2. Eulogy Of Deliberate Malevolence
3. Profaned Fountain Of Leaden Waters
4. Innocence As A Burden, Guilt As A Weapon
5. Transient Wounds, Spiritual Wilt
6. Eternal Scars And Imperative Backfires
7. Eden Fades Like Blurred Nightmares
photo by Gabriele Gramaglia
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