Looking into the Abyss — Italian Dreamgaze Artist Kæry Ann Unveils New Album “Moonstone” Ahead of European Tour!

We were looking into the abyss
you held my hand and swore we’d dive
soon betrayed by paralysis
you said — maybe in another life

When belief collapses, it doesn’t vanish — it changes function. Faith in God, in institutions, in the promise of mercy no longer offers guidance or protection. What replaces it is responsibility: the burden of deciding how to act once those systems fail. The world evoked here is already damaged — skies polluted, streets emptied, families stripped down to motion rather than destination. Parents keep walking with their children, not because they expect rescue, but because stopping would mean giving in. Lovers hesitate at the edge of loss, caught between commitment and paralysis. Death is no longer an idea or a metaphor; it is addressed directly, spoken to as if it were something that hears. In this landscape, purity is not innocence or moral superiority. It becomes an inner discipline — something consciously protected, carried forward through ruin as evidence that humanity survives through endurance rather than belief.

Moonstone, by Italian artist Kæry Ann, is an album that lives inside that constant tension, singing from within it rather than above it, shaping survival into sound. Sung in both Latin and English, Moonstone treats language as rite and reckoning. Latin phrases carry the weight of prayer without shelter, their repetition steady, almost geological. Vocals rise in medieval choral forms, disciplined and severe, then fracture into something exposed, where pain is allowed to speak without translation. Guitars move with dramatic force — at times ceremonial, at times sharply emotional — pressing forward with urgency that recalls the bruised immediacy of Hole, the ritual gravity of Dead Can Dance, and the raw pivots of Pixies.

Puritatem Tuam Interiorem Serva opens the record like an inscription, urging the preservation of inner purity against a sky choked with moral fallout. Its mantra — to keep what is human intact even as toxicity spreads — becomes the album’s quiet thesis. Todeslied follows not with fear, but with surrender, addressing death as transformation rather than rupture, its structure unfolding slowly, breath by breath, until dissolution feels less like an ending than a release.

The Road grounds the album in motion and responsibility, following a parent and child through abandoned streets where faith has failed but care persists. Statues rot, houses become tombs, mercy recedes — yet walking together becomes an act of resistance. Humanity survives here not through belief, but through hope, tears, and the refusal to abandon one another in a world that no longer knows compassion.

Hero and Leander, accompanied by a stark video by Davide Saleri, reframes myth as private devastation. Grief becomes physical, internalized, marked by memory that refuses erasure. Love does not rescue; it endures, scarred and awake. The song’s central image — devotion halted by paralysis — lingers as one of the album’s most devastating truths.

Mariner’s Song drifts between devotion and guilt, its departure sealed by vision rather than choice. Prayer collapses into rage, confession into motion, as the sea becomes both witness and escape. Shores in Flames, a Bathory cover, widens the album’s scope to elemental destruction and historical erasure, situating personal loss within cycles of annihilation that predate and outlast the individual.

The closing White Dress turns fire into agency. Inheritance, expectation, and imposed identity burn away, leaving movement where captivity once stood. The figure at its center escapes not through absolution, but through rupture — crawling, howling, severing the past to reclaim the body as one’s own.

Listen to Moonstone below and order the album here.

Moonstone by Kæry Ann

Released after Songs of Grace and Ruin (2023, Anomic Records), Moonstone deepens Kæry Ann’s world without softening it. Doom weight, ritual folk, and exposed feeling converge here; the album offers presence rather than comfort, standing close where collapse and release share the same ground.

Moonstone will be presented on a European tour this winter in the following cities:

Tour Dates:

January 22 — Carmen Town — Brescia, Italy
February 5 — A38 — Budapest, Hungary
February 6 — Arena (3Raum) — Vienna, Austria
February 7 — Altes Spital — Viechtach, Germany
February 8 — Kinett — Kusel, Germany
February 9 — Z10 — Karlsruhe, Germany
February 10 — FZW — Dortmund, Germany
February 11 — Beautiful Noise — Siegen, Germany
February 12 — Slow Club — Freiburg, Germany
February 13 — BLO-Ateliers — Berlin, Germany
February 14 — Råhuset — Copenhagen, Denmark
February 15 — Deichdiele — Hamburg, Germany
February 18 — Black Shelter — Nantes, France
February 20 — Royal Baden — Baden, Switzerland
February 21 — CIQ — Milan, Italy