What they wrote
81 pieces from 47 magazines, webzines and radios, first written in Italian, English, German and Dutch — every one in English here, translated where it was not.
“This is party music for graveyards.”
“I have not witnessed such a sexually charged performance in a long time.”
“Is this the Italian answer to Type O Negative?”
“Blood ’N’ Roll is like the blueprint for bands on how to merge the best qualities of both sounds.”
“…humanity’s greatest nightmare.”
“…how to hold a stage, backed by a chemistry that has now lasted eight years.”
“This talented ensemble will soon carve their own path within today’s ever-evolving goth metal scene.”
“An excellent appetiser, ideal to quench the thirst for blood and rock and roll…”
“…an added value to be reckoned with.”
“If you find yourself humming at least three songs from the record without realising it, then it means: mission accomplished.”
“Singer Aldebran and the band simply gave it everything!”
“…the wait for their next record and their next live show will be very short.”
Live Report
And then, after a very quick changeover, the lights went down again for the start of the celebratory set by Bloody Mary, one of the icons of the dark gothic genre, yet at the same time damnably romantic, rock, rough and swaggering.
by Donato Tripolion Blood'N'Roll 20th Anniversary Live Show Party
Review
Bloody Mary, a Milanese band with a decade-long career in gothic rock metal, present their latest effort here: a gothic rock metal album.
by Starfookeron Anno Zero
Live Report
When I entered the castle courtyard around midday, it was already bustling. The Italian gothic rock greats BLOODY MARY were in the middle of their soundcheck and already hinted at the force of nature that would hit us in the evening… Why are soundchecks…
Review
The Milanese gothic rock band reaches its third album, after two good efforts in 2006 and 2010. The 10 tracks on the new "Anno Zero" are immediate, hard and well packaged.
by Raffaele Rossion Anno Zero
Review
A band's third record is usually its record of maturity, and here it also happens to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Milan band.
by Igor Fanellion Anno Zero
Interview
Damned in black made it following our directions, although of course his touch and his style are in it too.
Review
Here we go again. Every now and then clones turn up of bands that, through a few lucky songs, have enjoyed very widespread success (calling it planetary would be too much)... so why not imitate their deeds?!
by Marcello Zinnoon Anno Zero
Review
On the scene for a decade now, Milan's Bloody Mary have earned themselves a fair reputation over these years as Italy's answer to their better-known Finnish colleagues, namely H.I.M., 69 Eyes and To Die For, without forgetting the 'historical' influences of…
by Riccardo Plataon Anno Zero
Review
Bloody Mary certainly need no introduction: since 2000 the Milanese band has been delighting us with a distinctive and captivating gothic rock, born of a love for groups such as H.I.M., The Cult and Fields Of The Nephilim, but one that puts the sound back…
by Flames Of Hellon Anno Zero
Review
Let me say it: every now and then, among black demons, death and core furies and gothic power symphonies, it is a pleasure to be carried away by what is the natural heir of 1980s dark music, a scene that has given us bands and artists who made history and…
Review
Bloody Mary - Anno Zero Although they have been active since the dawn of the last decade, the Milanese took quite some time to build credibility at a national level and even to get noticed abroad.
Review
When you are out playing gigs and drifting from one recording studio to another, spitting blood and sweating the proverbial buckets, you can be sure your bones get tougher and you gain a great deal of experience.
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Bloody Mary are a band that has been active for almost fifteen years: the group took its first steps on the Milanese gothic rock scene in the early 2000s, then arrived at the debut album Blood'n'Roll, which also took them to perform outside Italy to wide…
Video Interview
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Review
Year zero as a redefinition of their goals, better focused on a formula that allows them to play on equal terms in a market where anyone can compete, free of ties and rules.
Review
A welcome return for gothic rock fans: after five years of silence, Milan's Bloody Mary are back in the game. I remember well the enthusiasm that surrounded the band's first releases, at a time when the internet did not yet carry the weight it has today and…
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ANNO ZERO is the new album by Milan gothic rock band BLOODY MARY who, after "Blood'n'Roll" (2006) and "Party Music For Graveyards" (2010), reach the third act of the saga with a fine record true to the spirit of the group, one that completes the path towards…
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Almost five years have passed since the release of "Party Music For Graveyards", Bloody Mary's second full-length album, and now the time has finally come to enjoy "Anno Zero", the new chapter from the Milanese band.
by Eva Cocianion Anno Zero
Article
Press release: BLOODY MARY "ANNO ZERO" Valery Records is proud to announce the release of Bloody Mary's eagerly awaited third album, "Anno Zero". Five years after "Party Music for Graveyards", the Milanese gothic metal band releases its third full length.
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Valery Records is proud to announce the release of Bloody Mary's eagerly awaited third album, "Anno Zero". The album will be released on 24 March 2014 in both physical and digital format and will be distributed in Italian shops by Frontiers/Audioglobe.
by Nadia Giordanoon Anno Zero
Article
Valery Records is proud to announce the release of the eagerly awaited third album by Bloody Mary, "Anno Zero". Five years after "Party Music for Graveyards", the Milan gothic metal band releases its third full-length.
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Booking and Valery Records announce "Anno Zero", the brand-new album by Bloody Mary. Four years after the release of "Party Music For Graveyards", the Milanese gothic metal band releases its eagerly awaited third full-length.
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Valery Records and V-Promotion announce "Anno Zero", the brand-new album by Bloody Mary. Four years after "Party Music For Graveyards", the Milan gothic metal band releases its eagerly awaited third full-length.
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Video Interview
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Article
3 September 2011, Elektrowerz, Torrens Street, London, UK. Here is the venue that will host a special night starring our own Bloody Mary!
Review
Although stylish and impeccably produced, this extravagantly gothic outing is haunted by the too-obvious influence of HIM, Lacrimas Profundere and other such crooning culprits.
Video Interview
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After HIM's embarrassing "Screamworks.." (lost for years now in a limbo of colourless pop..), a work that wipes out even what could be saved in "Venus doom", and with the 69 eyes lost behind fake gothic-street poses in the style of a "poor man's Motley Crue",…
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While waiting to hear the new graveyard effort of our dark dandies, "Party music for graveyards" (certainly the CD this writer awaits most in gothic rock, after the letdown of the 69 Eyes in "twilight-emo style"...!), we dust off their 2005 debut CD "Blood…
by Lunariaon Blood'N'Roll
Review
The beautiful cover by Marco Hassman (who also draws for Disney) takes us into the colourful but dangerous world created by Bloody Mary, an Italian band now at its second full-length after the debut "Blood'N'Roll" and the mini-album "Dig Up For The Party",…
Interview
On the release of their latest album "Party Music For Graveyards" we caught up with Milan's Bloody Mary for an all-round chat about everything surrounding their musical universe. Enjoy the read!
Interview
Stranger: Bloody Mary were born in Milan in 2000 with the absolute will to play excellent gothic rock in total freedom of expression.
Review
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the long wait is over. The charismatic Bloody Mary are back, and they have done it in grand style, releasing a great record by the name of 'Party Music For Graveyards', a real time bomb ready to explode and scatter its…
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At last (it was supposed to come out in 2007!) here is Party Music For Graveyards, Bloody Mary's second full-length: as the earlier appetiser for the trade, Dig Up For The Party, suggested, this new full-length is the ideal continuation of the debut Blood n…
Review
Some people still smile a little at Italy's rock scene. On closer inspection, however, there are plenty of interesting and good bands which, while not always exceptionally original, provide entertaining listening with good albums.
Interview
Hot off the press, Party music for graveyards, the second album from the Bloody Mary crew, the fruit of an ambitious and demanding creative process that makes the narrative the soundtrack of the music, the protagonist of the record in a sort of reversal of…
Review
The five Italian "eye-catchers" have one thing to offer above all: a hefty dose of androgyny in the veins of their frontman Aldebran - the Italian Vile Valo? The counterpart to Michelle Darkness? The Bill Kaulitz of the goth'n'roll scene?
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BLOODY MARY is an Italian gothic metal band that was formed in 2000 and only five years after released the debut album entitled 'Blood 'N' Roll'.
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I fear many will hastily compare Party music for graveyards with the latest release by the Finns The 69 Eyes. An unforgivable mistake, if we carefully analyse the contents of this record and, above all, the concrete substance that has set apart what the two…
Article
A great return for the gothic rock band Bloody Mary, who will present their new album "Party Music for Graveyards" live, with a surprising show, at the Black Circus in Milan. Free entry.
Review
Milan's Bloody Mary reach their third release, confirming themselves as one of the most interesting realities in the gothic world, and not only at a national level.
Review
"Party Music For Graveyards" is the long-awaited new album by Milan's Bloody Mary. The band is devoted to an interesting gothic rock, influenced as much by the work of sacred monsters such as Fields of The Nephilim and The Cult as by the new wave of the…
Interview
Hinter Bloody Mary verbirgt sich keinesfalls nur ein Wodka-Tomatensaft-Cocktail, sondern auch eine im Jahr 2000 gegründete italienische Goth`n`Roll-Band, die in diesen Tagen ihr zweites Studioalbum “Party Music For Graveyards” veröffentlicht.
Video Interview
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Interview
Aldebran: With their albums Bloody Mary are as if on a time machine, exploring particular historical periods. Our albums are a sort of concept, but not in the common sense of the term: I developed the technique of the didactic concept, where the topos of the…
Live Report
Slowed down by the usual Milan traffic, we reach the Music Drome just in time to catch the end of Bloody Mary's show, so we get to hear only their last songs: enough, though, to confirm that the Milanese band is now completely at home on stage and, thanks…
Review
First of all it must be said that this four-song EP, all of it available to hear on the band's official MySpace, is intended for the trade only, and was conceived to present to the press the second full-length, Party Music For Graveyards, due next winter.
Live Report
Milan's Bloody Mary are already fairly well known on the national gothic rock scene and can also boast prestigious dates played in England in support of their debut album "Blood N' Roll", dating back to 2005.
Live Report
For the reopening of Milan's Zoe club, Bloody Mary — musicians well known locally, but even more so in the land of Albion — are chosen to open the new season in a fun, effervescent night in which the typical colours of the gothic rock scene prevail among the…
Live Report
In the evocative setting of the Koko Club in Camden, Bloody Mary give their new London performance: a gothic band from Milan that enjoys remarkable success with audiences in the land of Albion, helped too by the promotion of Six Six Six Records, the label of…
by Andrea Sacchion Antilight
Review
A debut in grand style for Milan's Bloody Mary, who see their first full-length album released by none other than Six Six Six Records, the brand-new label founded by Dave Pybus, former bass player of Anathema and Cradle Of Filth.
by Luca Pessinaon Blood'N'Roll
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Bloody Mary are the negative of the photograph of a classic Italian band: the ideas at the songwriting stage are few, but the sound is so perfect it could give the heavyweights of the international scene a run for their money.
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Is this the Italian answer to Type O Negative? On its debut, Bloody Mary, formed around the turn of the millennium, certainly stands out for a rather imposing sound, though one undeniably close to Type O Negative.
Review
I think it's important to start out by saying that even though Bloody Mary may look like yet another HIM wannabe in many ways, they are something quite different. They are genuinely gothic.
Live Report
Walking into The Underworld with the DJ playing New Model Army and The Mission it was kind of like stepping back in time.
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Live Report
I knew this was going to be a bloody day, hell I even managed to cut myself shaving before I was fully awake. There were a couple of fests in town and after popping along to the Frightfest and getting the werewolves out the way with Julian Sands new movie…
by Pete Woodson Italofest
Live Report
Ladies and gentlemen, let the stage curtains open and the lights crown the long-awaited, much-desired night at the Aquatica in Milan, in honour of the Bloody Mary concert.
Review
For all lovers of the eighties, here are Bloody Mary! Mind you, the nostalgics I mean are not first-hour old metalheads like yours truly, but all the youngsters who, like me (I know, I'm worse than parsley, I'm everywhere!), were into dark sounds in the early…
by Pierre Houndon Carminium
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2003 is a particularly important year for Milan's Bloody Mary. Having distributed last January a promotional CD of 6 songs, with room too for the Twins cover "Face To Face", the time has now come for "Rosemadder", a more compact and direct demo CD that…
by Poisoneyeon Rosemadder
Live Report
On the gloomy and seemingly quiet Sunday that closes November 2003 for good, there is an event that warms the souls of the many people who have come to the Transilvania Live in Milan to see two of the most promising bands on the Italian gothic scene.
Live Report
After Rosa Crux and Syrian it was the turn of Bloody Mary, a gothic metal band that has recently been much talked about, thanks partly to the many concerts it played in various parts of Italy during the winter just past.
by Grendelon Dark Day 2004
Review
And here at last is the much promised and much promoted review of Bloody Mary's two current small great masterpieces. A universe of colours fading into black: this is the first sensation that listening to Red leaves on the skin; Aldebran's voice is as always…
Review
From Milan, this time, come the gothic rockers Bloody Mary, authors of this demo titled Rosemadder, a four-track work very well looked after in terms of recording and production.
by Andreaon Rosemadder
Live Report
(...) Bloody Mary presented themselves as humanity's greatest nightmare. After all the members had taken the stage, the singer came running on covered in a black robe, then threw it off to reveal to the world his body wrapped in a long strip of cling film!
Live Report
Bloody Mary are one of Italy's emerging gothic metal bands, a genre that certainly has a sizeable audience in our country.
Review
I press play and "Icy blue" bursts out of the stereo speakers with all its exuberance! A thoroughly ingratiating track, gifted with exceptional appeal - the young and dashing Bloody Mary really could not have chosen a better song as their calling card.
by Hadrianuson Rosemadder
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This is the gothic-metal-rock that I like so much! Energetics plus the flying ultra-melodity, plus a light tint of darkness, plus serious, heavy guitars, plus a cold detached voice (besides one more type of voice - emotionally suffering but luckily, far from…
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After its birth in spring 2000, the rock gothic band BLOODY MARY began writing its first songs and playing concerts in and around Milan. In December they finally went into the studio for the first time and recorded their first album, titled "RED".
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Strange 1980s new wave, and this time, when I say new wave influences, I mean much more than a few key points here and there.
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The gothic rock / metal scene has virtually exploded the last few years with new bands being unveiled every week. The Italian Bloody Mary are one of those and came to life in the spring of 2000 when guitarist Stranger and bass player LaRouge met in their home…
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This first mini-album by Bloody Mary holds four songs and a video that manage to give us, if only in part, an idea of the potential this band possesses.
by Tatiana Vinciguerraon Red
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Rosemadder is a gem of sonic and compositional freshness, a well-built work along a consistent and precise path. A shadowy, beautiful safari without a pause from the first note to the last!
by Massi Cavalloon Rosemadder
Interview
We had promised to give a voice to gothic rock in person, to let the music speak for itself... We have kept our word! On this sunny winter day we met Bloody Mary in the Milan unknown to most, the Milan of the outskirts, where the musical ferment never stops…
Article
Italian gothic wave band Bloody Mary, on the release of their new EP "Rosemadder", have begun shooting the videoclip for the song "It's too late", which will be available at the beginning of October on their website, www.bloody.it, in digital format and free…
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