[Exclusive] Stream PROFEZIA's title track from forthcoming Oracolo Suicida (PLUS, interview & lyrics)

"I crossed the line, jumped beyond"

With an air-rending cold breeze comes mystic dark in the form of music. Italian black metal veterans Profezia signal in a dramatic sting of an album, aptly titled Oracolo Suicida. Halifax Collect is lucky enough to give you the first taste of this ghastly yet graceful melancholy with the exemplary opening title track.

Stream "Oracolo Suicida" below (lyrics at the bottom of this post) and when you are done, Profezia's sole vessel, Kvasir (also of Moribund cult Abhor) reveals why what is, is.


Your brand of black metal is shrill and cold yet not orthodox at all. Where are you coming from musically and is this manifestation in any way an alternative to the super-charged and complex black metal of today?
Profezia was born in 2000. I was simply tired of playing in bands and to compromise with other people. Different views; so instead of arguing I started my solo project. I have to admit that it developed in a curious way. Despite being born as one-man-band I have collaborated with quite a few musicians through the years. I’m Italian, but I’ve been living in Norway for years because of my job and travelled around in Europe regularly. I have so get in contact with interesting people that helped me in my project. Profezia was born in Southern Europe and developed in Scandinavia, a kind of Norse-Mediterranean congregation! That’s life... A coincidence of events.

That's interesting development and I can appreciate how mixing an Italian background with new "Norwegian beginnings" can yield interesting results. I'm intrigued with the violins (viola?) playing such a big part in the song. It almost has a "lead riff" of its own and not your standard violin chasing the guitar, rather it is super eerie and almost intrusive on a certain level with air of its own. Is this also your middle finger to genre standards and violins-in-metal conventions?
It's a classic violin we've used throughout the whole full-lenght. Viola could be our next step. I don't care about the trend in black metal or what is cool at the moment in extreme music. I just follow my instinct instead. It's more right if every instrument/musician expresses his ideas and put in into music, isn't it? The formula "everybody must follow the guitar" has been abused in metal music, especially black metal. I crossed the line, jumped beyond and explored new territories. Perhaps someone has already done it before me, but the mass hasn't.

What does "Oracolo Suicida" express?
The lyrics, they're all conceived about our destiny and fate that have already been written by some upper entity; we live our lives as puppets, governed and directed by someone else.

"Oracolo Suicida"Il mio nome giace nell’ombra
è destinato all’oblio
fluttua nella stanza
delle anime perdute.
L’eco delle mie grida
risuona glaciale nel vuoto
rimbalza tra le pareti
nella stanza del nulla.
Le urla come lame
fanno sanguinare la mente
e le membra sono scosse
da tremiti di terrore.
Questo sono io ora
un oracolo suicida
che abbandona la vita
per lo sdegno del futuro.
Il peso dell’indecenza
grava su un animo profetico
come mille piramidi
sul cranio di un feto.
Non si può sopportare
una fine preannunziata
Godetevi le mie urla disperate
di orrore e follia.

I wish you an eerie journey into the depths of your mind...thanks for your interest. Stay tuned. - Profezia.

*** Oracolo Suicida is available from Moribund Records 4 March 2014.
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