NOUMENIA (modern metal) explore mental & emotional collapse with new “Black Ocean” music video, new full-album ‘Echoes’ out now!
Watch the brutal new “Black Ocean” music video via YouTube, and listen to the album on all platforms via this location
New album Echoes out now, produced by Richard Meiz (Lacuna Coil, Genus Ordinis Dei), mixed & mastered by Daniele Salomone (Lacuna Coil, Inverno). Listen on all platforms at this location
Noumenia are a post-groove metal band from Northern Italy, who have crafted an soul-striking explosive sound that hits you square in the face, the mind, and the soul! Fronted by their powerfully-charismatic vocalist Vivian Black, the band just premiered another new music video, entitled “Black Ocean” which was directed by Steve Saints (Genus Ordinis Dei). “Fall Apart” is the third music video from their new full-length album Echoes which was just released on June 27, 2025 via Eclipse Records. The album was produced by Richard Meiz (Lacuna Coil, Genus Ordinis Dei), and mixed & mastered by Daniele Salomone (Lacuna Coil, Inverno, D With Us) at DDStudio Records.
“Black Ocean” is a beautiful nightmare with a futuristic groove drowning and pounding like thunderheads caught in a flood in a canyon. Here, the multi-layered growl vocal is emblematically effective, as the higher pitch is our fear and folly and the lower ones, our darkness and malice. “With the video for Black Ocean we plunge into the abyss of our unconscious… into our shadow part, into a black-out of mental and emotional collapse.” Says vocalist Vivian Black. “The song speaks of the innermost desire to know that there can be someone to shake your hand to pull you out of this abyss, out of this black ocean. We chose scenes for the video that could represent this mood in a dreamlike way. Same goes for the choice to make the video in black and white. As for the lights we wanted to give the feeling of lightning, of the storm inside us.”
Echoesis the title of the exciting post groove modern metal album by Noumenia, featuring rhythmic virtuosity, ripsaw growl vocals, heavy drumming, and a gargantuan guitar sound that literally reinvents the power of the power chord. The pound and burn on this record are massive, the changes invigorating, the hooks mesmerizing, the philosophical lyrics all too close to the heart, the bottom-side where we stockpile secrets and darkness. Often, the songs on this record kick off with bizarre futuristic introductions constructed of suspense and trepidation, like movie soundtracks made for aliens, dangerous AI, and cyborgs gone mad, yet following these mystic “orchestral” and “celestial” preludes, Noumenia hit us with drop after drop that rock so hard we are stunned. Musically, this record makes for a striking hybrid, explosive and smooth, hard diamond with a soft shine, a thick dose of dangerous velvet. Holistically, it seems that the band has a mission here to invigorate, exfoliate, and buzzsaw the brain so the new world looks real and raw. Echoes features cover art designed by Samuele Zichi, and it was released on June 27, 2025.
Listen to Echoes on all platforms at https://ffm.to/nouech
For more information about Noumenia and their “Fall Apart” music video, please visit them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or Eclipse Records, and follow them on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, YouTube Music, Tidal, and Deezer now!
Echoes track listing
01. Blind Idols
02. The Circle
03. Outsider
04. Fractures
05. Fall Apart
06. Black Ocean
07. Outbreak
08. Firewall
09. Digital Aftermath
10. Under the Veil
Noumenia lineup
Vivian Black (vocals), Matteo Campagnoli (bass), Matteo Radaelli (guitar), Samuele Zichi (drums)
