UPCOMING RELEASE: Marea - A Caress Of Autumn For All The Lost
Posted by Hypnotic Dirge Records on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 Under: Marea
Marea - meaning "tide" in Italian - is the one-man project of Matteo Balzarini from Legnano, in northern Italy. Founded in 2023, Marea delivers a haunting blend of atmospheric black metal, post-black, dsbm, and doom metal, interwoven with more intimate, dreamy passages featuring acoustic guitar and post-rock sections.
“A Caress of Autumn for All the Lost” explores themes of isolation, remorse, regret, broken dreams, and the fragility of our relationships: how a single wrong word or choice can destroy everything we have built over a lifetime, and how pride and selfishness can cause us to lose those we love and hold dearest. The album explores the feeling of being unworthy of happiness, driving us to seek psychological ways to hurt ourselves - and, by extension, those who care about us. Where the sea dominated previous works, autumn now takes its place. Though the central imagery has changed, the evoked emotions remain the same: profound loneliness, melancholy, and nostalgia.
Just as music can be both desperate and blissful, this duality and contrast also run through the album’s concept and lyrics. The title is intended as an embrace and a message of hope for all the “lost”, an invitation to appreciate life’s small beauties, to seize the moments of joy and happiness it offers, to set aside our suffering for a fleeting moment, and to forgive ourselves. It is a raw struggle with our inner demons and a confession of our deepest weaknesses and fears - an album for all our mistakes and the resting place of our sins.
"A Caress Of Autumn For All The Lost" will be jointly released by Hypnotic Dirge Records and Masked Dead Records on October 9, 2026. The album will be available on DLP, CD, and Digital formats.
Pre-orders and the first song premiere will be available soon
• Tracklist •
1 - A Caress of Autumn
2 - The Beauty of Broken Things
3 - Eremita
4 - Still Horizon
5 - Aurora
6 - For All The Lost
7 - Night Birds
8 - Absence of Self
Cover art & visual design: Francesco Gemelli
In : Marea
