LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT – Demo MMXXV

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• Bands:
  LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT
• Duration: 00:14:02
• Available from: 10/31/2025
• Label:

• Nuclear Winter Records

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The musical world that revolves around Gabriele Gramaglia is now decidedly composite. The musician and producer, known primarily for Cosmic Putrefaction, is also at the helm of notable musical creatures such as Vertebra Atlantis, Turris Eburnea, Hadit, The Clearing Path and these brand new Lugubrious Garment, a project managed completely independently from both the executive and production sides, if we exclude the drum parts entrusted to Claudio Invidia (Defacement, Devoid Of Thought).
Although it is only a demo, Gramaglia entrusts the publication to the expert Greek label Nuclear Winter, already known for operations of this kind with an exquisitely underground slant: after all, the Greek label is managed by none other than Anastasis Valtsanis of Dead Congregation, a very long-standing member of the global death metal underground.

This “Demo MMXXV” seems to be a programmatic manifesto of Lugubrious Garment, despite its brevity: we are faced with just a quarter of an hour divided into three songs, all of roughly the same length and, all things considered, intensity.
It is death metal, very ferocious and tight, but which never leads to war metal drifts and despite being indebted to realities such as Black Curse, Concrete Winds, Ascended Dead, Temple Nightside and many other artists who revolve around labels such as Sepulchral Voice, Iron Bonehead or Invictus Production it maintains its own clear and controlled sound, capable of keeping all the instruments highlighted, including the bass.
The three songs therefore, while not losing power and brutality, highlight non-trivial arrangements very well, especially in the final (and just barely less furious than the rest) “Eternal Scars And Imperative Backfires”.
It doesn't take much to appreciate how other influences are inserted into the death metal system: as mentioned, we never reach the paroxysm of the dirtiest war metal, but we are conceptually not far away; old-school thrash metal influences are also highlighted which can nominally be both European and South American, but which we can also summarize by quoting Aura Noir, correctly reported in the attached press notes.

It's a violent but not chaotic quarter of an hour created by Gabriele Gramaglia's Lugubrious Garment: we're talking about a demo which in essence isn't much of a demo, given that it probably decides to give itself this title to pay homage to tradition, but then it presents itself as a finished product, in our opinion well representative of the project.
All things considered, we are faced with a new musical expression of this musician and this time too we undoubtedly feel like promoting it, obviously waiting to better understand the overall coordinates in a broader work – which, obviously, we hope will arrive soon.