photo by Nicolò Brambilla
“…As an accomplished solo artist, with over a decade of recording and releasing extreme music under his belt, there’s nothing stopping him from crafting a work this insane. He went for it on this album, and now here we are.” – Decibel Magazine
In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night, the debut album from Milan, Italy-based Gabriele Gramaglia and his new venture LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT, is now streaming in its unhinged entirety ahead of its release this Friday on 20 Buck Spin.
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. Following the ferocious declaration of intent laid down by 2025’s Demo MMXXV, 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.
LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT’s ravenous In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night can be experienced early only on YouTube HERE.
20 Buck Spin will release In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night on LP, CD, and digital formats this Friday, October 16th. Preorders are now available at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
“…LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT are fully unleashed in all ways: instrumentally relentless, bursting with creativity, totally unhinged like something from Qrixkour or Mitochongrion, and utterly surrendered to the dark side of the soul… There’s nothing gimmicky here. GG just consistently goes for it. As an accomplished solo artist, with over a decade of recording and releasing extreme music under his belt, there’s nothing stopping him from crafting a work this insane. He went for it on this album, and now here we are.” – Decibel Magazine
“It’s berserk — but also wildly unpredictable. It screeches and swarms, but it also unexpectedly bounces up and down, ejects bursts of ecstatically swirling and elegantly darting melody, and seems to ooze dismal intoxicated visions too… All in all, it’s like an extravagant musical carnival that’s pitched its colorful and dangerous tents right inside our heads.” – No Clean Singing
“The bleeding should be slow, and long. Thus, development was a requirement for this particular band, and we’re seeing this to a shocking level with the band’s first full-length, The Wide Vale of Uncreated Light…With its variety of sound structures, twists, and atmospheric touches, The Wide Vale of Uncreated Light is a giant leap towards something, we hope, more permanent. 5/5” – Deaf Sparrow
“Compared to his other projects, Vertebrae Atlantis, Cosmic Putrefaction, and Hadit, whose music takes the form of Biblically-accurate angels, Gabriele Gramaglia’s LUBUGRIOUS GARMENT is an intentional de-stressor. Describing it as streamlined and simplified extreme metal comes with the caveat that this is in relation to Gramaglia’s more celebrated works… In the Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night presents everything clearly, albeit in a mass of limbs and gurgles.” – Invisible Oranges
photo by Gabriele Gramaglia
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