Italian atmospheric blackened doomgaze ensemble Gli Alberi have unveiled their third full‑length album, Maturafine, released via Masked Dead Records. Built around the stark, symbolic image of the desert — both as a living ecosystem and as a metaphor for an era stripped to its bones — the album explores spaces emptied of humanity yet still vibrating with life, memory, and consequence.
In Maturafine, the desert becomes far more than a barren expanse. It is prayer, temptation, loss. It is the Rubʿ al‑Khālī, the “Empty Quarter” of the Arabian Peninsula, where silence becomes a form of gravity. It is the Dreamtime of the Australian Aboriginal peoples, carried in red dust and stone. It is the dried‑up bed of the Aral Sea, where rusting fishing boats lie motionless beneath the Kazakh sun — monuments to human intervention and its aftermath.
Following their previous concept album Reinhold — inspired by the Messner brothers’ ascent of Nanga Parbat — Gli Alberi once again construct a narrative work shaped by landscape, myth, and human fragility. Maturafine reflects on territories we have transformed, plundered, and abandoned, now returning as warnings. The same sands that bury ruins also erase certainty; the time, as the band suggests, is ripe.
Active in Turin since 2012, Gli Alberi have carved out a sound suspended between rarefied atmospheric expanses and doom‑laden gravitational pull. After The Glimpse (2017) and Reinhold (2022), the band arrives at Maturafine (2026) with a work that treats the desert as a mirror of a world on the brink — a place where absence becomes revelation, and where the wind carries the memory of what once was. Fans of The Gathering, Les Discrets, Alcest, Messa, We Lost The Sea, and In Tormentata Quiete, should give this band a chance. Link
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