Aurora

Marea - Aurora
From the album: A Caress of Autumn for all the Lost
Releasing: October 9, 2026

• Order Links •
Hypnotic Dirge Store:
https://tinyurl.com/marea-cd2026 [CD] | https://tinyurl.com/marea-dlp2026 [LP]
Hypnotic Dirge Bandcamp:
https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-caress-of-autumn-for-all-the-lost

Masked Dead Records:
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/?s=marea&et_search=true&post_type=product
Masked Dead Bandcamp:
https://maskedeadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-caress-of-autumn-for-all-the-lost

• Video Notes •
"This song is probably the heaviest and most aggressive I have done to date, while still maintaining the melancholic feeling that runs through the whole album.
Conceptually, it's about the initial hope and enthusiasm for new beginnings and their subsequent loss as you watch your dreams shatter.
I used the metaphor of dawn to represent that fragile spark of hope and dusk as the inevitable crash, ending with a desperate need to start over."


• Video Credits •
Directed by: Maurizio Del Piccolo
Actress: Serena Beccu


• Album Notes •
Marea - meaning "tide" in Italian - is the one-man project of Matteo Balzarini from Legnano, in northern Italy. Founded in 2023, Marea delivers a haunting blend of atmospheric black metal, post-black, dsbm, and doom metal, interwoven with more intimate, dreamy passages featuring acoustic guitar and post-rock sections.

“A Caress of Autumn for All the Lost” explores themes of isolation, remorse, regret, broken dreams, and the fragility of our relationships: how a single wrong word or choice can destroy everything we have built over a lifetime, and how pride and selfishness can cause us to lose those we love and hold dearest. The album explores the feeling of being unworthy of happiness, driving us to seek psychological ways to hurt ourselves - and, by extension, those who care about us. Where the sea dominated previous works, autumn now takes its place. Though the central imagery has changed, the evoked emotions remain the same: profound loneliness, melancholy, and nostalgia.

Just as music can be both desperate and blissful, this duality and contrast also run through the album’s concept and lyrics. The title is intended as an embrace and a message of hope for all the “lost”, an invitation to appreciate life’s small beauties, to seize the moments of joy and happiness it offers, to set aside our suffering for a fleeting moment, and to forgive ourselves. It is a raw struggle with our inner demons and a confession of our deepest weaknesses and fears - an album for all our mistakes and the resting place of our sins.


• Follow Marea •
Bandcamp: https://marea-rusted.bandcamp.com/music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marea.rusted/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marea.rusted
Youtube: www.youtube.com/@MareaRusted