When we played “Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth” (Gainax, 1997), in Catania in 2018, we noticed some similarities between the tracks we were working on and the Japanese anime. As for Hideaki Anno also for us, it’s difficult to distance ourselves from our favorite creature, “Know by Heart” (Angapp, 2017), so we decided to give it a last goodbye.

Unit: 01-02-03 are nothing but three tracks of KBH in electronic version, as we used to play them in the last years performances. The lyrics, like biblical passages, wished a rebirth which has become an apocalypse. COVID-19 pandemic is also a way to feel alive in a world, copy of itself. Is that the true nature of evolution? Die to be reborn apart from God?

Rebirth

Unit: 03

“Sow a thought, reap an action; so an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” – Swami Sivananda

We live in a new West where God no longer exists and the violent scenes shown on TV are part of man’s education to individuality: as if all my sins were my fault and the evolution of a civilization could do without me.

Why didn’t the ancient Greeks show violent scenes at the theatre?
Is this the true nature of evolution? Die to be reborn apart from God?


UNIT: 02
You said to me Welcome to Florence
You said to me Welcome to my soul
I say to you You're still a secret to yourself
Now in the West
death isn't important anymore
Now in the West death is a joke
It's on everyone's lips on TV
You can do bang bang on Xbox
This is to exorcise it
Death is holy
Showing murders on TV educates us badly
Life is the most beautiful game in the world
Play well because after death there'll be
a more difficult game
Showing murders on TV educates us badly

Lyrics by Giorgio Cuscito


2022| SAC01
Written, performed & recorded by VS. Mixed by Gianvito Novielli in Rome & Apulia (Southern Italy). Mastered by Gianmaria Dell’Aera in Berlin. Produced by Stand Alone Complex. Distributed by Artist First.

Unit: 02

Unit: 01

L’ultimo EP, "Rebirth", dei Violent Scenes è uscito a inizio Gennaio 2022. Il nuovo singolo, di rientro da un lungo tour negli Stati Uniti, è stato pubblicato per Stand Alone Complex il 4 Giugno 2023. L’origine e il decadimento nell’uomo occidentale della natura, dell’amore, della storia e del mistero.

Lilith

// lyric

you're over me
you cover me
like a blue note,
in pairs
like a blue stone
from the stars

you're over me
you cover me
like a blue note,
in pairs
like a blue stone
without angst

you're over me
you make me feel
like a blue note,
in pairs
like a blue stone
on your breast

Zebra OPN

// lyric

whenever you're smoking
whenever you're choking
whenever you're worried
whenever you're joking

whenever you're crawling
whenever you're falling
whenever you go forth
and never look back

like a pig I come back
like a pig I come back

whatever you're looking for
whatever you spotted
whenever you thought it
was just a bullshit

like a pig I come back

to my role
to my soul
to my broken heart,
you're a fucking asshole

I adore my life
I adore my life
but I don't understand it

Nope Face

// lyric

grim july
everyday
everynight

crossing
the same line
the square is
so quite

I'm at work
everything is done
come after you
come after you

crossing
every year
the spectre
of the sun
towards
foreign

I'm at work
everything is done
come after you
come after you

Grim July

Nouvelle Vague showed us how to love and made us aware of our unarmed sensitivity. At grandma’s house, at Christmas, in a snowstorm, I found Poetry and Thought of "Know by Heart" in Godard, precisely in "Histoire(s) du Cinéma": beauty, art, god are man’s sleep or rather, the second before he wakes up. In bed, between the sheets, man discovers his divine memory and realize he’s eternal. Unfortunately, after he woke up, he forgets it. G. Cuscito

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Francesco Petrelli and VS in Apulia, Southern Italy. Produced by VS.

Giorgio Cuscito: vocals, electric bass, electric guitar
Gianfranco Maselli: electric guitar, electric bass
Gianvito Novielli: electric guitar
Antonio Iacovazzi: drums, programming

Photography: Sofio Giancotti, Antonio Racano, VS

Between the sheets

A little more

Please stay

Weigh me down

Violent scenes

In the morning sun

From above

«Can songwriting be combine with a dilated, rarefied and highly experimental sound? The Southern Italian band Violent Scenes, with a decade-long track record, have succeeded. They started from post-rock and psychedelic and landed on experimental rock through ambient-glitch electronic.» - Time Zones XXXVII

Violent Scenes is the New Greek Theater. Mindful of Euripides and Godard’s lesson, it despices the TV theatrical shows and declares that Tragedy is not violent. Violent Scenes is an attempt to being human.

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