Dagerman - Di Fronte A Noi Il Nulla LP - the edges of the cover has very light wear from shipping to Stickfigure

Dagerman - Di Fronte A Noi Il Nulla LP - the edges of the cover has very light wear from shipping to Stickfigure

"There’s something about Italian screamo that hits the same nerve as the French variety — that particular European register of density and precision that feels less like a genre exercise and more like a specific way of being in the world.

dagerman., a five-piece out of Milan, have been making that case since their debut two years ago. With “Di fronte a noi il nulla,” out now, they’re making it harder to argue with.

“Tragedie | VIVERE” mapped the daily mechanisms of erasure — the city as logistics operation, labor as slow attrition, selfhood worn down by routine and obligation. The follow-up arrives with a wider lens and a colder diagnosis.

“The world is in a very bad period — wars, conflicts, right-wing governments taking power, crazy statements from the US,” drummer and lyricist Pelle writes. “And we as the rich part of the world simply stay motionless in our privilege. Maybe with criticisms, but still quite motionless.”

That motionlessness is the record. “Di fronte a noi il nulla” — in front of us, the void — didn’t start there.

dagerman. initially planned a concept around war when they began writing in June 2025. “During the songwriting we encountered some difficulties,” Pelle explains. “It felt like a partial topic.”

Indifference turned out to be the bigger thing underneath — more honest, and more directly aimed at the position they and their audience actually occupy.

“It’s a terrible attitude that leads to accepting and consequently endorsing a lot of terrible, intolerable injustices — like war. Nothing moves. Nothing changes.”

The album traces the conditions feeding this paralysis: fear, status, habit, duty, resignation, selfishness, greed — and the chain of consequences that follows.

The record is a different animal sonically, too. “Tragedie | VIVERE” was wet, full of rooms and atmosphere. “Di fronte a noi il nulla” is dry and stripped back.

The songwriting process shifted just as sharply: where the debut was built collectively in the rehearsal room, this time Pelle and guitarist Ricky wrote the skeleton of all eight songs together over summer 2025, then guitarist Piotr and bassist Bruna came in during autumn to work on harmonies and arrangements, with Gri handling the vocal parts last.

“The songwriting was definitely more ordered and structured, less instinctive,” Pelle says.

“We’re a little sorry about that, but we felt the need to build something more constructed and elaborated.” Influences fall along the screamo end of things — Eyelet, Yearning, Frail Body, Envy‘s footsteps period — with some Converge and Botch pulling at the harder edges. They’re not precious about any of it: “We don’t like maintaining the same approach. The next record will definitely be done in a completely different way.”" - Karol Kamiński / IdiotEQ