I spill the purest blood from my tainted wounds
The brunt of a joy we cannot hold
I distill the tears that fall in the shadow
And we bleed for no one else
You could label the newly minted Corvin a supergroup, but that feels imprecise. This is a collaboration in the truest sense: members of Me And That Man, Shores Of Null, Guineapig, and Otus folding their separate histories into a single, sharply defined vision. The result is a formidable Gothic Rock project fluent in the grammar of the 1980s, deepened by the genre’s subsequent evolutions. The name signals omen and acuity, echoing the keen watchfulness of the raven. Their latest offering, Dead End Pyre, makes that intelligence unmistakable.
“Dead End Pyre is a song about witnessing the collapse of the world while burning with it, embracing a romantic form of nihilism and dancing on the ruins as everything turns to ash,” says the band. During those dire moments where lovers cling to one another while those structures fall, blood and tears are transfigured into ritual. The chorus circles the image of a “world on fire,” returning again and again, as if repetition itself might cauterise the wound.
Davide Straccione’s deep, weathered vocal is central to the song’s power. He delivers the lines with a sense of scale, as though addressing both a single body and a crumbling civilisation. Around him, Francesco Argentini and Gino Chiarizia construct tall, reverb-laden guitar architectures, lines arcing and colliding. Matteo Bassoli’s bass anchors the drama with a steady, funereal weight, while Leopoldo Russo Ceccotti’s drums move with processional intent. The bridge is immediate and memorable, a classic Gothic pivot that tightens the emotional focus before releasing it back into the anthemic chorus. There is a romance of extinction: kneeling to the void, gilding it, choosing the night over the glare of morning. The song portrays intimacy as both sanctuary and rebellion, two forces bound together as the empire collapses behind them.
The video, directed by Underroom Studio, was shot in stark, retro black-and-white and captures the raw, physical energy of a live performance. Its aesthetic and atmosphere mirror the song’s choral intensity. Monochrome sharpens the silhouettes. It feels archival and immediate at once, as though unearthed from a lost broadcast and reinserted into the present tense.
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Corvin sound deliberate, invested, intent on situating themselves within a lineage that includes The Sisters of Mercy, Type O Negative, The 69 Eyes, and Fields Of The Nephilim, while articulating their own variation on grandeur and gloom. Dead End Pyre functions as an invocation and an introduction: a declaration that even in ruin, there can be communion; even in fire, a form of clarity.
A physical single CD will be released on March 20th, 2026, including a cover version of Disarm by The Smashing Pumpkins. You can order the song here.
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