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.
"Anno Zero" is the third act of Bloody Mary's tetralogy, following Blood'n'Roll (2005) and Party Music for Graveyards (2010). "Anno Zero" is set in a uchronic, distorted pseudo-present where, in a Dieselpunk atmosphere, the last convulsive days before the nuclear apocalypse play out. We are in a surreal continuation of a twentieth century in which the Berlin Wall not only never fell but seems to have multiplied, in a paranoid continuation of the Cold War and of the ravings of the twentieth-century ideologies. Over dreamlike atmospheres, like the barking of zombies from the past, lie the bellicose declarations of the leaders of the Short Century.
The band will accompany the record with a narrative guide to the conceptual universe of "Anno Zero".
A manifesto of the phantasmal survival of the ravings, dreams and nightmares of a twentieth century shelved too hastily and (badly) digested.
The record will be presented live on a promotional tour in Italy and abroad; the first dates announced:
21/03 Milan – Black Hole
29/03 Turin – El Barrio
05/04 San Donà di Piave – Revolver
05/06 Legend – Milan
Since 2000 Bloody Mary have stood for gothic rock in Italy. Their first EPs, Bloody Zero Live, Red and Rosemadder, have become real rarities, cult objects among fans of the genre. In 2005 they signed with the English label SixSixSix Records, with which they recorded the debut album Blood'n'Roll, a true manifesto of the genre. In 2010 came Party Music for Graveyards on the Italian label Valery Records, the band's second record, followed by many live shows in Italy and abroad that met a great response from the public, and a surprising welcome from the European trade press, the German in particular, which gave the band ample space (Zillo, Sonic Seducer and Orkus).
The album will be released on 24 March 2014, physically and digitally, on Valery Records, and distributed in Italian shops by Frontiers/Audioglobe.
First published in Italian; in English here. Where it appeared ↗