The album title translates into some sinister Beefheart-esque doggerel - 'a heart tossed to fishes with heads of dogs' - which is a good match for the raw, grungey sound of this enigmatic Italian band.
Led by Marco Campitelli from Abruzzo, the band have certain similarities with early albums of fellow Italians Massimo Volume but I suspect the timeline of American underground rock spanning from the Velvet Underground to Swans are their all-pervading influences.
The spoken word vocals combined with the dense sound also reminded me of Slint's classic Spiderland album.
The album succeeds by managing to strike the right balance between romantic decadence and fevered despair.
It was produced by Amaury Cambuzat of the French experimental rock band Ulan Bator whose album Ego:Echo was released on Michael Gira's Young God records. Another associate is Nicola Manzan of the feral punk band Bologna Violenta.
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Standout tracks include the darkly threatening Attraversando and Sister Ray-like blast of Les Elites En Flammes.
A melancholy acoustic ballad, Distanze, is a brief respite from the general sense of brooding anger and decay culminating in the scary atmosphere of the closing track Crocifissione Privée
Heavy rock for dark hearted souls.
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