As KEYGEN CHURCH prepares to release its stunning Nel Nome Del Codice full-length on March 22nd via Metal Blade Records, the second single from the record – its essential title track – has been issued in both audio and visual formats.
KEYGEN CHURCH is the brainchild of technologist/songwriter Victor Love (Vittorio D‘Amore). Love, also of 8-bit phenoms Master Boot Record (MBR), is a one-person outfit, writing, and recording via undisclosed real-time stream events, where the dedicated (and lucky) bear witness to KEYGEN CHURCH‘s spontaneous creative process. Like previous alt code/text art-titled albums ░ ▒ ▓ █(2022) and ░█░█░░█░█░█░ (2022), Nel Nome Del Codice is a modern-primitive love letter to doom/gothic/black metal with foundations in Baroque-era Classical and Romantic-era music. This time, however, Love has refined his sonic toolkit — “the complete set of sounds,” he says — the aftereffect of which is computerized big-hall libations like “La Chiave Del Mio Amor,” “Nel Nome Del Codice,” and “Lode Al Disco Sacro.”
Sputnikmusic once noted, “they successfully managed to ’dehumanize‘ classical music. Just imagine: Bach found a time machine and traveled to the present time, releasing an album with church organs while in the background an old computer was booting from floppy,” while MetalSucks likened KEYGEN CHURCH‘s sound to “the sinister score for an epic Castlevania movie.” 100% Synthesized. 100% Dehumanized. Nel Nome Del Codice is KEYGEN CHURCH disincarnate.
In advance of the record‘s release, KEYGEN CHURCH today unveils the title track to Nel Nome Del Codice, stating, “The church of Keygen is open and the choirs are leading accompanied by piano arpeggios and pipe organs until the calm is broken by waves of synth metal doom. In the name of the sacred code.”
Watch a visualizer for KEYGEN CHURCH‘s “Nel Nome Del Codice” HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM79SEJgZss
Stream KEYGEN CHURCH‘s previously released single, “La Chiave Del Mio Amor,” HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttL3jmLBSGY
