Italian dark, atmospheric metal band Ivoire have announced their debut album, Uragano, due for release on 8 May, and unveiled its first single, "Vetta".

Uragano is an emotionally devastating, intense and multi-layered work, capable of transforming the weight of pain into dense, dark and deeply immersive sonic matter. With it, the band forge a personal, expressive language in which a solid post‑metal foundation intertwines with an intricate interplay of tension and texture, opening up to further shades, including black metal elements and atmospheric passages. The result is a thick, shadow‑laden sound – oppressive yet never static – capable of suddenly breaking open into waves of melancholy, rarefied expanses and moments of almost contemplative suspension. It is within this unstable balance between impact and fragility, fury and introspection, that the album finds its deepest identity.

Uragano took shape in December 2021, when Nicolò Lenoci, founder of Ivoire and until then the project's principal songwriter, decided to put a series of personal reflections into words. From that intimate yet unavoidable creative urgency, the first embryonic ideas for the songs began to emerge, eventually forming the backbone of the album. The record developed through a process of surfacing, in which inner tensions, visions, and emotional fragments gradually coalesced into a coherent, lacerating sonic narrative.

Musically, the album moves between post‑metal, sludge and black metal influences, alternating moments of overwhelming intensity with more rarefied and atmospheric sections. Harsh vocals intertwine with ambient passages and spoken‑word segments, feeding a constant contrast between implosion and release, violence and reflection.

The concept behind Uragano revolves around decay and the exploration of the boundary between destruction and catharsis – an imagery that extends beyond the writing of the songs and into the live dimension, conceived as a natural continuation of the world evoked by the record.

The full‑length features Nicolò Lenoci, Antonio Caggese on vocals and Giovanni Solazzo (Turangalila, Duocane) on drums. Further enriching the album are Fabrizio Cioce (Zolfo), who appears in the outro of "Sotto la Cenere", and Michael Anthony Foti (Die Sünde), who wrote the lyrics for and performed vocals on "Chimera". Together, these contributions broaden the album's emotional scope and reinforce its collective dimension while remaining firmly rooted in a clearly defined artistic vision.

In 2025, the project reached its definitive line‑up with the permanent addition of Sebastiano Liso on guitar, Cipo (The Apulian Blues Foundation) on drums and Francesco Bizzoca (Sürd, A Violet Pine) on bass. This is the line‑up with which Ivoire present themselves today, ready to accompany the release of Uragano and bring its full expressive force to the stage.

With Uragano, Ivoire deliver a debut that seeks no compromise: a visceral, bleak and profoundly human record that descends into the cracks and turns them into sound. Link