Massimo Pupillo: stream dark drone debut album of ZU's bassist in full!

Jazz metal trio ZU's bassist and occult experimentalist MASSIMO PUPILLO presents his first solo album in its entirety. Unsettling ambient drone album 'The Black Iron Prison' will drive you to the abysses of mankind. It comes out this Friday 6th November via Subsound Records. Give ear now!

"You’ll find yourself drifting through each track, enveloped by the well-positioned mix that swallows you whole. As you reach the final, titular track, Pupillo cranks up the experimentation more, with some unique bass sounds created and utilised in the song." — Everything Is Noise

Matching live instruments and machines to perfection MASSIMO PUPILLO's debut solo album 'The Black Iron Prison' is remarkably obscure and mystic: it’s a dark philosophical and esoteric record, distilling a lifetime of extra-musical experiences and readings, in particular Gnostic texts, sci-fi novels and alchemy's basics and fundamentals — the latter have been chosen to illustrate the artwork. The title was drawn from writer Philip K. Dick's concept of an all-pervasive system of social control, a description particularly apt and meaningful in 2020.

Stream MASSIMO PUPILLO's mystic album in full: Everything Is Noise (World) and Impatto Sonoro (Italy).

Says Massimo Pupillo: "The Black Iron Prison is a somber meditation and rumination inspired by the Gnostics, Philip K. Dick, and the alchemical maps of Nigredo. As the world is unveiled, and the Storm is upon us."

'The Black Iron Prison' was recorded in complete solitude at Thighpaulsandra's Aerial Studio in Wales, using a heavily processed electric bass, synthesizers, sampler and, of course, mixer, and recorder. Mixed and mastered by Lorenzo Stecconi (Ufomammut, ZU) at Triple Sun studios, Rome. Artwork by Francesco Russo. The record is available for preorder here in the following formats:

• black LP (with printed innersleeve)
• limited edition (200 copies) smokey white and bone LP (with printed innersleeve)
• digital

MASSIMO PUPILLO New album 'The Black Iron Prison' out November 6th on Subsound Records - preorder