Sigillum S / Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte 'Blues and Doped Flowers from Twenty Three Years After Eschaton' (04.06.21)

SIGILLUM S has been covering unknown territories among extreme electronics, fringe acoustics, and occultist noise since 1985, with an original lineup of Eraldo Bernocchi, Paolo L. Bandera and Luca Di Giorgio, having now morphed into a four-piece joined by Bruno Dorella. They have been continuously developing their own special brand of post-industrial audio investigations, employing sound to map the subconscious and a reconfiguration of cognitive processes.

The result has been an endless series of mutations where, from the droning ritualism and ethnic explorations of the late ‘80s through the surreal science fiction soundtracks of the ‘90s to the deep complexity of the new millennium, SIGILLUM S have been constantly evolving, crashing their way through a few tens of releases in all formats and feeling particularly at home on the stages of the world. Their latest configuration is digging profoundly in an ever-changing continuum of harsh, irregular beats and sudden shift in experimental atmospheres, with an intrinsic penchant for unique graphic / video representation mixing with crazed theories and overblown textual philosophies of all kinds: a current obsession for space travel and apocalyptic utopia makes for a very dangerous, but very rewarding listening experience.

MACELLERIA MOBILE DI MEZZANOTTE (or MMM) is a project formed in 2001 in Rome by Adriano Vincenti. The name refers to the New York subway which, after midnight, turns into a dangerous slaughterhouse as seen in Clive Barker's novel "Midnight Meat Train". From the power electronics and harsh noise of their first cult record "Profilo Ottimale Delle Ferrite", the band switched to noir jazz atmospheres melted in rough electronics, seasoned with sex and murder-related lyrics with their 2004 "Black Rubber Exotica" and 2006 "La Dolce Vita". 2007's "Ultimo Vero Bacio" introduced cinematic atmospheres and more dark romanticism. 2011 "Hardboiled Night Club" showed a transition towards more sophisticated songwriting and jazz-oriented songs. In 2013, the band defined the uprising doom jazz scene with their "Black Lake Confidence" that featured a stripped-down version of Twin Peaks' "Just You and I". In 2014, they take a detour in raw power electronics with "Nylon Crimes", a project involving Paolo Bandera (Sigillum S) as well and a tribute to the Italian power electronics scene.

2015 is the year of their most acclaimed release "Funeral Jazz", a bastard collection of noir ballads mostly sung in Italian and their first album with Subsound Records. In 2017, the band released "Hiver Noir", a blurred collection of brutal dark progressive songs. At the end of 2019, the release of "Noir Jazz Femdom" marks their 20th year of activity and their most powerful record to date: a fierce collection of tracks spanning from harsh noise to industrial, doom jazz, and post-electronica.

Sigillum S / Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte 'Blues and Doped Flowers from Twenty Three Years After Eschaton'

Out June 4th on Subsound Records