OvO release new dance doom single Cobalto, third and final excerpt out now from the new album Gemma to be released on October 3rd, 2025 via Artoffact Records
OvO release the brand new single Cobalto, third excerpt from the upcoming Gemma, eleventh studio album celebrating their twenty-five years of activity.
Available today on all digital platforms, after the previous singles Opale feat. Lord Spikeheart and Stagno, Cobalto is pure energy. Cobalto (“Cobalt”) is a hard but fragile metal, essential for the life of mammals, and it’s a surprising dance doom track. It combines the duo’s proverbial edginess and their idea of accessibility. A strange, deviant dance makes its way between drum beats by Bruno Dorella (Bachi da Pietra, Ronin, Sigillum S) and electric strings by Stefania Pedretti (Alos).
The music of OvO, already legendary in the vast landscape of noise rock, industrial metal, and avant-doom, continues in the sign of perpetual reinvention, seeking further synthesis between electronics and experimentation, connecting to their brave and acclaimed records from the past few years, Miasma (2020) and Ignoto (2022). Each track from Gemma is like an act of creation, an alchemical passage through the elements towards a form of new weird life that blossoms, explodes, and changes.
Gemma is a manifesto of transformation. Like a seed that makes a promise, Gemma is not just the title of the album, set to be released on October 3rd, 2025 on CD, vinyl, and digital by the Canadian label Artoffact Records, but also an invitation to regenerate, to rediscover the hidden potential in everything. It is a dance of exploration between human nature, matter, and the mystery of existence.
Cover album OvO Gemma – artwork: Neroatto
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Bio
OvO has always been one of the most active bands in the worldwide noisy rock scene. They have been known pretty much everywhere through more than 1000 gigs, their large amount of releases, including albums, singles, collaborations, tracks on compilations, dvds, and for their original, unique music. They’re a duo, formed by a little possessed singer and guitar player (Stefania Pedretti) and an enormous drummer who plays a mini-set like it was a full metal drum set (Bruno Dorella). Their live performances are legendary, and they’ve played them all over the world, with extensive tours in Europe, North America, Mexico, Asia, including a lot of the main festivals: Roadburn and Le Guess Who? In the Netherlands, The Wire Festival in Chicago, FIMAV in Canada, Supersonic and Desertfest in England, Amplifest in Portugal, Inferno in Norway, Mystic in Poland, Santarcangelo, Krakatoa and Frantic in Italy, Groland and Sonic protest in France, Tomorrow Festival in China.
What they do is not easy to file. It’s not noise, not metal, not doom, not punk, not rock and roll, even if there’s a little bit of all these. Their massive use of electronics even gives them an industrial touch. For once, we can really say that it’s a band you can’t file.
After some full lengths on their label Bar La Muerte, they release albums on American labels such as legendary Load Records and Blossoming Noise, then two albums on Supernatural Cat and one on Dio Drone. With Miasma they started to be released by the Canadian label Artoffact, which will release this new one called Gemma as well.
They collaborated or played with the most important names of contemporary experimental rock music (Alan Dubin, Big Brave, Divide And Dissolve, Raven Chacon, Carla Bozulich, Arabrot, Gnod, KK Null, Godflesh, Psychic TV, Dillinger Escape Plan, Ufomammut, Nadja, Thrones, Body Void among the others), and they worked for cinema projects (Frankenstein, Nosferatu, Inferno) and performing arts (Aeneis V by Lenz, Canto Primo by Gruppo Nanou).
Gemma European Tour
03/10 – IT Castiglione Delle Stiviere, ARCI Dallò
04/10 – IT Milano, ARCI Bellezza
11/10 – IT Firenze, CPA
24/10 – IT Modena, Kalinka ARCI Dude
25/10 – IT Padova, Pedro
07/11 – IT Pesaro, ARCI Artigiana
08/11 – IT Taranto, Mercato Nuovo
09/11 – IT Bologna, Improved Sequence Festival
14/11 – IT Asti, Diavolo Rosso
15/11 – IT Imperia, La Talpa E L’Orologio
27/11 – FR Paris, Les Instants Chavirès
28/11 – FR Clermont-Ferrand, Raymond
29/11 – FR Lyon, Grrrnd Zero
30/11 – CH Basel, Mental Load Agency
01/12 – CH Zurich, Boschbar
02/12 – DE Freiburg, Slow Club
03/12 – BE Kortrijk, The Pit’s
04/12 – BE Namur, Belvedere
05/12 – NL, Utrecht, Moira
06/12 – TBA
07/12 – DK Aalborg, 1000 Fryd
08/12 – DK Copenhagen, Råhuset
09/12 – DE Leipzig, ZxRx
10/12 – DE Berlin, Neues Zukunft
11/12 – CZ Plzen, Pod Lampou
12/12 – SLO Maribor, Pekarna
13/12 – AT Wien, EKH TBA
14/12 – HR Zagreb, Mocvara
15/12 – SLO Ljubljana, Channel Zero
19/12 – IT Roma, Forte Prenestino
More to come…
OvO – credit: Annapaola Martin
