Aydra have closed the story they started on Leave to Nowhere, and they have closed it with a song and a book.
Voices From Nowhere came out on 23 October, and the lyric video followed on 6 November. The album it belongs to follows a migrant from Eritrea to Europe and ends with the man digging his own grave. The new song is what is left speaking afterwards.
Three guests are on it. Mick Montaguti of Electrocution sings and co-wrote the lyrics with Mauro Pacetti. Tommy Talamanca of Sadist takes the first solo. The second belongs to Francesco Olivi, who played lead guitar in the band and wrote much of Icon of Sin and Hyperlogical Non-Sense, and who comes back to an Aydra song after almost twenty years.
The rest of it is paper. Luca Morici, who painted the Leave to Nowhere artwork, has drawn the whole record in ink: three plates for every song and a painting to open each chapter. The new cover was done by hand with a palette knife, no AI and no filters, which the band state plainly enough that it reads as a position. Three of the plates are online already, the village, the desert and the grave the man digs for himself. The full book is out this year.