Set for release March 17 through Gilgongo Records, STREGA BEATA is the 3rd full-length album from Sam An’s dark electronic, genre-bridging solo project under the semi-notorious moniker Lana Del Rabies. After a brief hiatus, this record is her first full-length release since the gothic, industrial noise of 2018’s Shadow World. STREGA BEATA, which loosely translates to “Blessed Witch,” is an apocalyptic myth told through dense, textural compositions pulling from the vast corners of dark genre music. The title’s meaning is appropriate for the existential, cathartic, and otherworldly themes explored.
Along with the album’s announcement, she has shared the pounding, entrancing first track from the record, entitled ‘A Plague’.
“’A Plague’ was initially written before the Covid-19 Pandemic began, and refers to the angst of living through an overwhelming number of manmade atrocities, absorbed personally and peripherally by everyone all at once in today’s world” she comments. “The album STREGA BEATA is an allegory told from the evolving perspective of a mythological, cryptic creator figure, who is responsible for humanity but not in control of the world we have created. This track is an expression of the fury towards mankind’s current state of self destruction, while declaring vengeance through the same futile means of destruction.”
STREGA BEATA:
- Prayers of Consequence
- A Plague
- Master
- Mother
- Grace The Teacher
- Mourning
- Hallowed is the Earth
- Reckoning
- Apocalypse Fatigue
- Forgive
