heavy-metal-darkness: Nero Kane | For The Love, The Death And The Poetry

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Nero Kane | For The Love, The Death And The Poetry | Subsound Records

Format: LP, CD, Digital

Release Date: 26 September 2025

Genre: Psych Dark Folk, Folk Liturgy, Avant-Garde

Country: Italy

Nero Kane has been wandering through barren musical landscapes since his 2018 debut “Love In A Dying World”, carving a place in the world of dark folk and experimental songwriting. Over the years, with Samantha Stella by his side, his work has carried a strong ritualistic and visionary quality, enriched by imagery that touches on mysticism, cinema, and spiritual traditions. This fourth album, “For The Love, The Death And The Poetry”, continues that path with a collection of songs that function less like entertainment and more like liturgies.

Long drones and funeral organs create an aura of suspension, while Kane’s guitar arpeggios and Stella’s spectral spoken passages pull the listener into a dreamlike procession. Songs such as “As An Angel’s Voice” and “Until The Light Of Heaven Comes” stretch time, moving like incantations rather than conventional tracks. Others, like “Mountain Of Sin” or “Receive My Tears”, are more grounded, leaning into bluesy minimalism or solemn hymn-like tones.

The album exists in a circular space, constantly folding back on itself like a prayer repeated under candlelight. The themes circle around devotion, mortality, and redemption, painting images of deserts, churches, and liminal places between the sacred and the doomed. Stella’s contribution is essential, her voice and imagery weaving into Kane’s compositions, making it less about a single musician and more about a shared ritual.

The album does not fully escape its own weight. At times the slow, meditative nature risks drifting too far into the background, and the pacing makes the journey feel longer than it really is. Yet this is not music built for immediacy. It asks the listener to submit, to sink into its textures and repetitions, and in return it offers moments of haunting beauty.

“For The Love, The Death And The Poetry” is not the most accessible release in Kane’s catalog, nor the most striking, but it is consistent in tone and vision. It confirms his place in the current landscape of dark folk liturgy, a niche where few musicians manage to remain authentic. For those willing to embrace its ritualistic pace, this is a rewarding and immersive listen, one that lingers like the echo of a hymn in a deserted church.

Score: 7.5