The upcoming Stormo album Tagli/Talee is a collection of fragments—of sound, of place, of shifting identity. It’s the product of constant movement, written on the road, absorbing the textures of cities, empty highways, and nights spent somewhere between exhaustion and revelation. The title itself plays on the dual meanings of “cuts” and “grafts,” a process of both violent separation and growth.
The band’s last album, Endocannibalismo, took them across Europe, where they burned through stages with a mix of screamo’s raw urgency, noise rock’s jagged edges, and black metal’s relentless drive.
Tagli/Talee carries that momentum but mutates it further, pulling in cold Scandinavian influences, electronic dissonance, and a structural approach borrowed from their experiences on tour. Luca Rocco’s vision for the album’s sequencing mimics their live set—deliberate, building tension and collapsing it in waves.
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The band’s sources of inspiration range from the industrial precision of Big Black’s Atomizer to the abyssal repetition of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops. Darkthrone’s Transilvanian Hunger seeps into their riffs, reflecting the nights spent touring through northern Europe. Holy Similaun’s electronic textures push them into new, more unstable ground.
This expansion is most evident in their latest single Come Fauce Che Divora, the album’s closing track, which integrates drone and noise into a circular rhythm that refuses resolution. Holy Similaun’s presence here adds layers of synthetic unease, a contrast to the physicality of Stormo’s live energy.
Loss and displacement haunt the record’s composition. Songs were written on ferries, in cramped vans, and during moments of isolation. One cold, miserable night in Brussels became the foundation for an entire track. There’s a sense of impermanence running through Tagli/Talee, reinforced by the book Lanark by Alasdair Gray—a narrative of fragmented existence that mirrored their own experience of moving between places and sounds.
The visual side of the album follows the same ethos. Massimo Spadari’s artwork layers lithograph, etching, and linocut, reflecting the physical process of cutting and reshaping, mirroring Stormo’s own approach to songwriting. The album was recorded at Cabot Cove, Bologna, with Diego Castioni once again behind the controls, while Maurizio Baggio’s mixing and mastering ensure every cut leaves a scar.
Stormo don’t just play hardcore—they deconstruct it, pull it apart, and stitch it back together with something unrecognizable but still vital. Tagli/Talee is a document of movement, of things lost and found along the way. With their first UK tour on the horizon, they’ll soon be bringing these cuts to the stage, raw and unpredictable as ever.
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10 key inspirations for Tagli/Talee
SHXCXCHCXSH – SsSsSsSsSsSs (…)
From when we started thinking about this record we had the idea to integrate synths and electronic parts into our sound; it hasn’t been easy but somehow it worked and we will keep experimenting for sure.
The research the SHXCXCHCXSH makes concerning sounds and music in general is fascinating and always takes unpredictable paths.
Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger
We wrote almost all the record while touring, and a lot of songs were written in the scandinavian part of the tour; this album sounds more black metal than the rest we’ve done before and probably the friendship between our bass player and guitarist is based on Transilvanian Hunger and a plexi B.C. Rich
Big Black – Atomizer
We surely like to put new elements in our sound but the result needs to be extremely direct. That’s why we always refer to Big Black.
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Vocals in Thou are always amazing and I particularly appreciated the work they’ve done with vocal effects in this last record. We started trying to use distortions and delays and eventually all my voices has been processed with a Space Echo.
>> Read IDIOTEQ interview with The Thou HERE.
William Basinski – Disintegration Loops
Our bass player works with tape loops from years now and we finally integrated this part also in STORMO. Using the techniques from Basiski and Steve Reich’s works we manipulated guitar riffs and loop it again and again in order to recreate that melancholy.
Other things that shaped this record:
– Losing friends and relatives, learning to give chances at things to re-grow.
– Long ferry travels where guitar parts and lyrics were written.
– A bad and cold night during a day off in Bruxelles that became the first song of the album.
– Moving from one city to another, from one house to another on our rusty but somehow comfortable van.
– A book called Lanark and written by Alasdair Gray
Catch Stormo live at one of their gigs in April:
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26/04 CSOA Gabrio, Turin (IT)
27/04 La Marquise, Lyon (FR)
29/04 Magazin 4, Bruxelles (BE)
30/04 The Onderbroek, Nijmegen (NL)
01/05 Effenaar, Eindhoven (NL)
02/05 Lolaparoli, Aachen (DE)
03/05 Urban Spree, Berlin (DE)
04/05 Basement, Copenhagen (DK)
06/05 Rozbrat, Poznan (PL)
07/05 Chmury, Warsaw (PL)
08/05 Barrak, Ostrava (CZ)
09/05 Bike Jesus, Prague (CZ)
10/05 Divadlo Pod Lampou, Plzn (CZ)
11/05 CoreChaos, Munich (DE)
13/05 Zalar, Bratislava (SK)
14/05 Monteparadiso, Pula (HR)
15/05 Channel Zero, Ljubljana (SL)
