Stormo announce new album ‘Tagli/Talee’ and share lead single and music video ‘Kallitype’

Long running Italian post-hardcore and noise punk band STORMO has announced their forthcoming fifth album, Tagli/Talee, which is set for release on March 21 via Prosthetic Records. Alongside the album announcement, STORMO has shared the lead single and accompanying music video, Kallitype. Kallitype comes ahead of the groups debut UK tour dates – with full details below.

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Speaking on the album announcement, STORMO‘s Luca Rocco (vocals) comments:

“This album is about cuts; about the importance of making room for things to grow. It’s a record that speaks about paying attention to what’s around you, about staying silent and observing your self that mirrors the world around you. It’s about the importance of taking care of the empty spaces we fear most, because in those spaces something can blossom if we give it a chance.”

Of Kallitype, Rocco adds:

“Kallitype was written on a ferry between Denmark and Norway during our spring tour in April 2024. With its screamo touch, it’s one of the songs I’m more attached to on this new record. Metaphorically referring to plants as we did in the artwork and in the album title, we could say we chose to start presenting this new record from a new fresh leaf, but there’s also thorns and roots that go down deep.”

Following the release of their well received 2023 full-length, Endocannibalismo, STORMO undertook an extensive touring schedule of Europe across their native Italy and the mainland over the course of a year which culminated in an appearance at the revered Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, NL. Having developed a live reputation for relentless intensity akin to first wave screamo, possessing noise rock’s angularity and black metal speed, Tagli/Talee was written exclusively whilst travelling across the continent.

Tagli/Talee tracklist:
1. Tagli
2. Sabbia
3. Sabbia pt.2 Ghiaccio
4. Kallitype
5. Sciame
6. Rami
7. Talee
8. Bordi
9. Riva
10. Alte Mura
11. Come Fauce Che Divora

Tagli/Talee’s focus on cuts and grafts symbolically collages and embodies the transient surroundings and characters that has filled their last few years, with Norway’s extreme metal scene seeping into their sonic assault on tracks such as Tagli, Kallitype and the fraught closer Come Fauce Che Divora. The pacing and structure of the songs themselves also inspired by their contemporaries whilst on the road, with vocalist Luca Rocco taking a keen interest in unifying the sequencing of a live set to that of the band’s recorded output.

Recording duties once again were placed in the hands of Diego Castioni at Cabot Cove, Bologna, ahead of mixing and mastering being handled by Maurizio Baggio. Further dissonant noise flourishes were added during and after recording, with Castion providing sound textures to Sabbia Pt. II and Alberto Bertelli (aka Holy Similaun) on Come Fauce Che Divora, adding a kinetic viscerality to proceedings. Art for Tagli/Talee was delicately crafted by Massimo Spadari, combining lithograph, etching and linocut processes to the piece in painstaking detail.

With Tagli/Talee, STORMO continue to carve out their own unique approach to punk as an umbrella term, with explosive repercussions, ahead of debut UK touring in early 2025 and their eyes set on bringing Tagli/Talee to the stage with their idiosyncratic volatility.

Upcoming STORMO tour dates:
January 15 – Nice N Sleazy – Glasgow, UK
January 16 – The Chapel – Nottingham, UK
January 17 – The Tin Music and Arts – Coventry, UK
January 18 – Moor Brewery – Bristol, UK
January 19 – Reality Unfolds Festival – London, UK

STORMO is:
Luca Rocco – Vocals
Michael Barletta – Guitar
Federico Trimeri – Bass
Stefano Rutolini – Drums