Lugubrious Garment - In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night Lugubrious Garment

Following the ferocious declaration of intent laid down by 2025’s ‘Demo MMXXV’ via Nuclear Winter Records (Dead Congregation, Phrenelith), Milan-based musician Gabriele Gramaglia offers the first full-length manifestation of Lugubrious Garment, ‘In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night’.

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. 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 pummelling 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.

Artwork by Mariya Popyk (Assumption, Tomarum).