Collection: To Die On Ice

PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI, the second studio album by the Italian collective TO DIE ON ICE, is set for release on vinyl, CD and digital formats on 6 February 2026 via Italian label Subsound Records and Norwegian label Gymnocal Industries.

Conceived as an open workshop that reflects on music and beyond, TO DIE ON ICE brings together people with different musical styles in the name of “Lynch Core”, a genre defined by the author on the edge of sentimental pornography and at the crossroads between the sensual and unsettling imagery of the Black Lodge and Club Silencio, with an anti-technical, minimalist yet atmospheric noir jazz, blues and soul dilations, crooner voices that tear open and turn into screams.

PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI (translated as PAN OF THE ABYSS), is an album intended as an alternative narrative of a namesake story written by Filippo Dionisi, illustrated by comic book artist Vitt Moretta, and published in a bilingual book in Italian and English by Edizioni Fantasma. A novel set in a surreal post-New Year's Eve, where the two protagonists, Paul and Bacall, happen to cross paths, along with their respective destinies and secret fears, on the parapets of an overpass, to find themselves in a race aboard a car that becomes a glowing submarine hurled toward the unknown. Each of the 13 tracks that compose the album is a sort of musical formulation of a moment in the story. In fact, the author does not consider the musical work as a soundtrack commenting on the story, but as the manipulation of the same material, the story, with a different medium, music.

The project also includes a video section: a visual album written by Filippo Dionisi and directed by Lulù Withheld, which expands on a minor detail from the story - an ice-skating performance glimpsed while channel-surfing -  to produce an experiment in combinatory editing focused on the relationship between music and images. The visual album, available on VHS, was obtained by combining a more or less fixed and predetermined number of video fragments in as many different ways as there are tracks.

The sounds and atmospheres of the new album revisit and deepen those of the first record UNA SPECIE DI FERITA (2022), adding even more diverse ambiences —a cappella gospel-screamo moment featuring Vespertina, a dark duet with Francesca Bono of Bono-Burattini / Ofelia Dorme and a touch of Fred Bongusto doom-style - to the Lynch Core born with the first publication. Recorded and mixed by Enrico Baraldi and mastered by Claudio Adamo, PANORAMICA DEGLI ABISSI features Filippo Dionisi (guitar/vocals), Andrea Pedone (sax), Marco Senin (bass), and Alessandro Vitali (drums). The vinyl will be released in a limited edition in ice blue with blood red center label, and in a standard black edition.