Eclipse Records is excited to announce the signing of Noumenia, a post groove metal band from Northern Italy, who have crafted an explosive soul-striking sound that hits you square in the face, the mind, and the heart!
The band recently finished recording their debut full-length album entitled “Echoes” with Richard Meiz of Lacuna Coil producing the album, and Daniele Salomone (Lacuna Coil, Inverno, D With Us) mixing & mastering at DDStudio Records. “Echoes” will be released via Eclipse Records on June 27th, 2025.
“Signing with Eclipse Records is without a doubt one of the best things that could have happened to us, and we are so excited to begin this journey!”, says lead vocalist Vivian Nigro. “All we want for our music is to strike the listener with an insane amount of energy and to reach as many people as possible”.
Bassist Matteo Campagnoli adds: “We achieved a complete synergy with Richard in the studio, resulting in what I believe is an incredible album. The journey took almost a year and demanded a lot of effort, but we were all united and driven, simply unstoppable”.
Samuele Zichi (drummer) also said: “Signing with Eclipse Records is finally a sign that our music can leave a deep mark in someone, and that’s the main goal of our new album entitled ‘Echoes’. I hope everyone enjoys our work as much as we enjoyed making it”!
Finally, guitarist Matteo Radaelli states: “I am ecstatic about our collaboration with Eclipse, because it’s a big opportunity to bring our art and ideas to life. ‘Echoes’ is a big step forward for us, because we think it can connect a lot of different people with different musical tastes, mainly because every song gives the opportunity to the listener to have affinity with the lyrics and the music”.
“Echoes” is the title of the exciting post groove metal album by Noumenia, featuring heavy drumming, rhythmic virtuosity, ripsaw growl vocals, and a gargantuan guitar sound that literally reinvents the power of the power chord. Often, the songs on this record kick off with bizarre futuristic introductions constructed of suspense and trepidation, like movie soundtracks made for aliens, dangerous AI, and cyborgs gone mad, yet following these mystic “orchestral” and “celestial” preludes, Noumenia hit us with drop after drop that rock so hard we are stunned.
The pound and burn on this record are massive, the hooks mesmerizing, the changes invigorating, the philosophical lyrics all too close to the heart, the bottom-side where we stockpile secrets and darkness. Musically, this record makes for a striking hybrid, explosive and smooth, hard diamond with a soft shine, a thick dose of dangerous velvet. Holistically, it seems that the band has a mission here to invigorate, exfoliate, and buzzsaw the brain so the new world looks real and raw.
At the beginning of the record, we are asked to “Tear off the eyes, your sight is stale / Cut off your tongue, [and] never exhale”. That said, we are also prompted to approach each day from a position of strength and rejuvenation, as it says in focus track number one titled, “The Circle” that “From dust and bones, we’ll be reborn”. In the second focus track: “Fall Apart”, the traditional vocal warms us to the core and sets us on the sheer precipice of the monstrous growl symbolizing the fierce internal battles we wage in our effort to “Unbind the rope that chokes [the] heart”. Finally, with the third focus track: “Black Ocean”, we are exposed to a variety of vocals that are in themselves a symphony of tone, pitch, and power. And though there is a warning of a “systems crash”, there is hope in what has become a strange yet peaceful shadowland, in that we are asked to “Stay with me ‘til the sun kisses the horizon / Sail with me through the waves of infinity”.
“Echoes” features cover art designed by Samuele Zichi, and it is scheduled for release on June 27th, 2025.
Pre-order & pre-save “Echoes” here.
Tracklist:
01. Blind Idols
02. The Circle
03. Outsider
04. Fractures
05. Fall Apart
06. Black Ocean
07. Outbreak
08. Firewall
09. Digital Aftermath
10. Under the Veil
Line-up:
Vivian Nigro – Vocals
Matteo Campagnoli – Bass
Matteo Radaelli – Guitar
Samuele Zichi – Drums
