PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI, the second studio album by TO DIE ON ICE is out now via Subsound Records and Norwegian label Gymnocal Industries

PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI, the second studio album by TO DIE ON ICE, is set for release on vinyl and digital formats on 6 February 2026 via Italian label Subsound Records and Norwegian label Gymnocal Industries.

TO DIE ON ICE is a band with an artistic collective vocation, founded in 2021 and composed of former members of Action Dead Mouse, Ominoacidi, What Contemporary Means, and Oracle. Conceived as an open workshop that reflects on music and beyond, it brings together people with different musical styles in the name of “Lynch Core”, a genre defined by the author on the edge of sentimental pornography and at the crossroads between the sensual and unsettling imagery of the Black Lodge and Club Silencio, with an anti-technical, minimalist yet atmospheric noir jazz, blues and soul dilations, crooner voices that tear open and turn into screams.

PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI (translated as PAN OF THE ABYSS), is an album intended as an alternative narrative of a namesake story written by Filippo Dionisi, illustrated by comic book artist Vitt Moretta, and published in a bilingual book in Italian and English by Edizioni Fantasma. A novel set in a surreal post-New Year’s Eve, where the two protagonists, Paul and Bacall, happen to cross paths, along with their respective destinies and secret fears, on the parapets of an overpass, to find themselves in a race aboard a car that becomes a glowing submarine hurled toward the unknown. Each of the 13 tracks that compose the album is a sort of musical formulation of a moment in the story. The band does not consider the record as a soundtrack commenting on the story, but as the manipulation of the same material, the story, with a different medium, music.

The project also includes a video section: a visual album written by Filippo Dionisi and directed by Lulù Withheld, which expands on a minor detail from the story – an ice-skating performance glimpsed while channel-surfing – to produce an experiment in combinatory editing focused on the relationship between music and images. The visual album, available on VHS, was created by combining a fixed set of video fragments in as many different ways as there are tracks.

The sounds and atmospheres of the new album revisit and deepen those of the first record UNA SPECIE DI FERITA (2022), adding even more diverse ambiences —a cappella gospel-screamo moment featuring Vespertina, a dark duet with Francesca Bono of Bono-Burattini / Ofelia Dorme and a touch of Fred Bongusto doom-style – to the Lynch Core born with the first publication. Recorded and mixed by Enrico Baraldi and mastered by Claudio Adamo, PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI was performed live by Filippo Dionisi (guitar/vocals), Andrea Pedone (saxophone), Alessandro Vitali (drums), and Marco Senin (bass), who replaced Simone Ferri. As an ideal reference for the visual imagery, the vinyl will be released in a limited-edition ice blue with a blood-red centre label, and in a standard black edition.

The first single from the album is BACCANALE, due for release on 19 December 2025. The band describes it like this: “Entry into the vaporous fog rising from sweaty skin and a headlong dive into the animal hunger of base instincts, BACCANALE is a wave that breaks down into an orgy, amid distorted dilations and post-blues from the dark depths of a saxophonic ocean of bodily fluids. The third track of PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI, it’s where Paul rescues Bacall at a party of wolves and crows. Whatever that’s supposed to mean.”

The second single from the album is UN’ESTATE, due for release on 13 January 2026. The band describes it like this: “UN’ESTATE is the indictment of a season that doesn’t live up to its promises. The soul-tinged shades of bass and sax coil around the distorted tremolo of a guitar reaching for vertigo, with a ’60s-style crooning that puts a hood over Fred Bongusto only to unleash him into a doom dimension, where a sudden screamo outburst gives way to a rhythmic finale with disguised Motown inspiration. The ninth track of PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI, it’s where Bacall lets Paul in. Whatever that may mean.”

TO DIE ON ICE – courtesy by the artists

TO DIE ON ICE | PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI (PAN OF THE ABYSS)

TRACKLIST | CREDITS

EDERA | IVY – WHERE PAUL AND BACALL’S FAILURES MIRROR EACH OTHER
UN SOTTOMARINO TERRIBILE O UN’ASTRONAVE INARRESTABILE | A TERRIBLE SUBMARINE OR AN UNSTOPPABLE SPACESHIP – WHERE THE CAR BODY TURNS INTO A FIREBALL HURLED TOWARD A PARTY (inst.)
BACCANALE | BACCHANAL – WHERE PAUL SAVES BACALL AT A PARTY OF WOLVES AND CROWS (inst.)
L’AGGRAVANTE DEI FUTILI MOTIVI | THE AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCE OF FUTILE REASONS – WHERE A GUN CHANGES EVERYTHING (inst.)
L’INSONNIA (feat. VESPERTINA) | INSOMNIA – WHERE BACALL FIRES
LA NOTTE È GIOVANE | THE NIGHT IS YOUNG – WHERE A CAR IS STOLEN, THE ROAD SWALLOWS ITSELF, AND A MAN IS BEATEN (inst.)
NEROFUMO | LAMPBLACK – WHERE PAUL THINKS ABOUT NOT WANTING TO INFECT BACALL WITH HIS LONELINESS
TINTARELLA DI NULLA | TAN OF NOTHINGNESS – WHERE WE LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ALLIGATOR AND A CROCODILE, JUST BEFORE BACALL FALLS ASLEEP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
UN’ESTATE | A SUMMER – WHERE BACALL LETS PAUL IN
(TUTTO, TRANNE) LA FEBBRE | (EVERYTHING BUT) THE FEVER – WHERE PAUL ANSWERS A VOICE THAT DOESN’T EXIST, IN A PHONE BOOTH THAT ISN’T THERE, AND SUDDENLY EVERYTHING IS CLEAR (inst.)
A COLPI D’ASCIA | WITH AXE BLOWS – WHERE PAUL DREAMS OF A HOUSE OF HORRORS FOR HIM AND BACALL
TEMPESTE DI SABBIA (feat. FRANCESCA BONO) | SANDSTORMS – WHERE EVERYONE RUNS BLINDLY, AND IT’S ALMOST AS IF THEY’RE STANDING STILL
E ALLA FINE TUTTO TORNA | AND IN THE END, ALL COMES A FULL CIRCLE – WHERE THE CIRCLE CLOSES AND A CIGARETTE GOES OUT IN THE ASHTRAY THAT IS LIFE (inst.)