EPK – SVNTH – Pink Noise Youth (2025) (These Hands Melt )
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Band: SVNTH
Album Title: Pink Noise Youth
Release Date: April 18, 2025
Label: These Hands Melt
“Pink Noise Youth will be out five years after our previous full-length, which is the longest time between two records in our discography. It is also full of new things, starting from a consistent line-up change of more than half of the band, the introduction of many new instruments such as electric Indian sitar, clean singing, classical and 12 strings guitars, and in addition, songwriting goes back to a more traditional song in opposition to the more suite-like approach of the previous album. People will surely welcome it with curiosity.” – SVNTH
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“Do you dig blackgaze, in the vein of Deafheaven and Alcest? What about post-hardcore? What about a mixture of the two?! Well my dears, you’re in a bit of luck, because the Italian experimental band Svnth just released their new single “Cinnamon Moon.” Give it a lil listen” – Metal Sucks
“This is not music that settles into one feeling; it is an album that lives in the tension between them, where grief fuels rebellion, where pain and resilience are inseparable, and where every song feels like a battle between destruction and redemption. In the end, it does not leave the listener broken, but neither does it offer false comfort. It does not promise that everything will be okay, but it does promise that the struggle is worth something. It is an album that carries both the weight of sorrow and the fire of defiance, the burden of grief and the light of something that refuses to die. 9/10″ – Metal-Temple (2025 – Pink Noise Youth)
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“This is arguably SVNTH’s defining effort to date, and will hopefully see them gain a foothold within the scene at large…” – Distorted Sound Magazine (2020 – Spring in Blue)
“”The music seems to wail and mournfully murmur like spirits who have lost their way in a shimmering desert world. Those lonesome laments unfold into a momentum of neck-snapping beats, raking chords, and high, harrowing shrieks” – No Clean Singing (2020 – Spring in Blue)
“SVNTH sets out in hopes of bridging the rift of a jealous god, welding genres into music that can appeal to all sensibilities, without sacrificing integrity (or intensity)” – Toilet ov Hell (2020 – Spring in Blue)
“”Distortions, speed and sinister atmosphere as the tradition black imposes but also delicate chiselations from which a light filters that suggests possible trajectories capable of questioning the dictatorship of matter, Spring in Blue is an album that is not afraid to face the recognized columns of Ercole gender and to push it far beyond 8.5/10” – Grind On The Road
“an interesting take on black metal, delving deeper into psychedelia and post-rock influences on new EP SVNTH. Though the tremolo-picked guitar playing and blast beats accompanied by howled screams still remain, they are met with shimmering melodies, ambient stretches and Pink Floyd-esque guitars.” – Decibel Magazine (2018 – EP SVNTH)
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Band: SVNTH
Album Title: Pink Noise Youth
Release Date: April 18, 2025
Label: These Hands Melt
Track Listing:
1. Inhale – 1:31
2. Cinnamon Moon – 5:18
3. Perfume – 4:19
4. Elephant – 6:49
5. Narrow, Narrow – 5:35
6. Exhale – 4:33
7. Winter Blues – 4:32
8. Nairobi Lullaby – 4:37
Album Length: 37:18
Album Credits:
All music and lyrics written by Rodolfo Ciuffo
Performed by Rodolfo Ciuffo, Alessandro De Falco, Valerio Primo and Alessandro Canzoneri
Guitar solos on “Elephant”, “Exhale” and “Nairobi Lullaby” written by Alessandro De Falco
Recorded, mixed and produced by Alessandro De Falco
Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Studio
Photography by Alexandru Cozlan, modeling by alteaaetla_sg
Album Artwork by Tryfar
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Describe The Album Artwork:
The artwork is realized by Tryfar based on a photo taken by our friend Alexandru Cozlan from Krøvi with alteaaetla_sg as model. It tries to portray all the emotional instability of late youth from the current generation in such a phase that in a metaphor with sounds is as chaotic as pink noise.
About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)
If the previous record Spring in Blue was about facing life’s struggles on a childhood perspective, the upcoming Pink Noise Youth will be based on exploring awareness as an adult in late youth, trying to give a voice to a generation emotionally unstable and chaotic as pink noise. it will be the second part of the band’s own “trilogy of colors”.
Musically speaking expect something intended to stay outside of genres and labels where elements of hardcore, metal, shoegaze, post-rock and unconventional instrumentation such as electric Indian sitar are blended together in the same pot.
Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):
1. Inhale – Album intro that brings up a dreamy atmosphere as the beginning of the journey, it shows a varied musical instrumentation that includes classical guitar, indian sitar, percussions, and ambient layers
2. Cinnamon Moon – As the first single off Pink Noise Youth, the new anticipated album from Italian band SVNTH, Cinnamon Moon unveils some of the most interesting features offered on the album in terms of sound and mood. With its captivating mix of black gaze and post-hardcore, the song is an open letter soaked in fragility and emotional exposure, delivered to a cared one as a memorial of the hampered paths walked together on the road of late youth. Cinnamon Moon takes shape among Slowdive-esque ethereal delayed layers, heavy sections with black metal screams, passionate clean singing, a unique use of electric Indian sitar, and melodramatic post-rock melodies, that aim to build together a unique cathartic sound blend.
3. Perfume – The track is carried by catchy and emotional guitar melodies with captivating singing, classic song structure and lyrics about nostalgia and moments that will never come back. Reminding bands like Alcest, Nothing and Smashing Pumpkins, it mixes elements of alternative rock and post-metal.
4. Elephant – One of the most dynamic tracks on the album, mixing heartbreaking guitar melodies with rock-oriented explosions and a pure post-rock outro, all accompanied by an alternation of screaming and melodic singing. Lyrics are about remembering intensively cheerful memories that symbolize the end of a turbulent and suffering path of life and consequently a new beginning.
5. Narrow, Narrow – With a dreamy Deftones-like intro soaked in delay and reverb, the song evolves immediately into a hardcore-oriented explosion with black metal screams alternated with emotional shoegaze-y sections. As much as the song “Wings of the Ark” from the previous album “Spring in Blue” was based on the experience of a loss during childhood, this song does the same but in the late youth phase of life. The final refrain “We will never come back again, but we’ll always be here” is intended to be considered a sort of anthem that reflects on the shortness of our life as humans compared to the eternity of our memory that remained in the people we left.
6. Exhale – transition instrumental track intended to create a dreamy imaginary. It alternates dark country film-like soundscapes inspired by Ennio Morricone, Swans, and Woven Hand with sitar-led psychedelic vibes that recall similitudes with Master Musicians of Bukkake, The Beatles, and Kikagaku Moyo with a touch of post-rock.
7. Winter Blues – The darker track of the album brings influences from both post-hardcore and black metal with a touch of melancholy, lyrics are about remembering with nostalgia someone who was a cared one in a relationship of the past.
8. Nairobi Lullaby – Most pop-oriented song of the recorded. It is a ballad that mixes Indian instruments like sitar and tanpura with acoustic guitar, fretless bass, drums and clean vocals, in a similar way of The Beatles’ Norwegian Wood. Lyrics are about remembering the fragilities and life difficulties of a cared person.
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BAND STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS:
1. The only member who has been in the band since the very beginning is Rodolfo Ciuffo.
2. Through the years SVNTH has played several tours and festival appearances all over Europe and in the United States, touching even non frequently toured countries such as Albania and Turkey.
3. On every full-length of the fourth in the band’s discography the name of a season is mentioned in a song or album title. For example on “Breeze of Memories (2015)” there is a song called “Summer Dusk”, on “Toward Akina (2017)” there is a song called “Last Fall Before the Impact”, the title of the third record is “Spring in Blue (2020)” and on “Pink Noise Youth (2025)” there is a song called “Winter Blues”.
4. Most of the material outside full-lengths is intended to step a little bit away from the band’s usual style. For example the EP “SVNTH (2018)” is a compilation of songs from the demos recorded for the first time in a proper way; the style at the time was mostly melodic black metal. The Split from 2019 contains the long song “Hourglasses Crambles Along The Oranged Fucked Sky” which is basically a noise rock/post-rock track in the vein of Swans and Slint; also the rest of the other artists’ material on the split ranges from ambient to psychedelic folk and noise.
5. The musical versatility of SVNTH’s sound contributed to their inclusion in events from very different musical contexts that saw them share the stage with bands into styles like post-metal, gothic/doom, punk, post-hardcore/screamo, post-rock, shoegaze, black/death metal, and alternative rock.
L to R – Jacopo Fagiolo – Guitars, Alessandro Canzoneri – Drums, Rodolfo Ciuffo – Bass, Vocals, Sitar, Valerio Primo – Samples, Percussion, Alessandro De Falco – Guitars
Photo Credit – Arianna Savo
With a various background of musical influences and artistic inspirations, SVNTH (written all caps and pronounced “Seventh”, formerly “Seventh Genocide”) from Rome, Italy has been shaping a unique equilibrium of sounds through the years moving across a huge variety of directions on the palette of contemporary alternative music to create a distinctive soundtrack for inner emotions, life scenarios, and existentialist questioning. Expanding the energy of black and post-metal over the mellow and contemplative boundaries of shoegaze, art pop, and cinematic post-rock.
From the vivid early black gaze melodies of the debut “Breeze of Memories” (2015) to the long song structures with acoustic overtures and Godspeed You! Black Emperor inspired sections of the monumental “Toward Akina” (2017); SVNTH confirms this more complex approach on the double LP “Spring in Blue” (2020), the childhood chapter of a trilogy of colors based on emotions in different phases of life.
The upcoming “Pink Noise Youth” (2025) gets back to a more traditional song format, introducing a unique use of Indian sitar, and an array of acoustic instruments and singing expressions, which develops SVNTH to a one-of-a-kind sound and personality.
As of today, the band has done several tours and single shows all over Europe and in the USA touching even non-frequently toured countries such as Albania and Turkey and performing at notable festivals like Rockstadt and Frantic Fest, bringing a defining cathartic live energy.
Band Lineup:
Jacopo Fagiolo – Guitars
Alessandro Canzoneri – Drums
Rodolfo Ciuffo – Bass, Vocals, Sitar
Valerio Primo – Samples, Percussion
Alessandro De Falco – Guitars
Discography:
2011 – Demo
2012 – Seventh Genocide Demo
2013 – Promo 2013 – Demo
2015 – Breeze of Memories – LP
2017 – Toward Akina LP 71 (91%)
2018 – SVNTH – EP
2019 – Seventh Genocide / Onirica / OkyDrones / Fortisleo – Split
2019 – Live in Berlin 2018 – Live album
2020 – Spring in Blue – LP
2024 – Immense as the Ocean (Live at Frantic Fest 2024) – Single
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