The Wiser

Severity

While we're living

Album released by Manic Depression and Blood Rock, 2014.
Simona Ferrucci - voice, guitar, bass guitar, drum programming
Alessandra Romeo - synths and keyboards
Pierluigi Ferro - saxophone
Recorded and mixed by Luciano Lamanna at Subsound Studio, Rome. Mastered by Andrea Merlini. 
All music and lyrics by Simona Ferrucci, except for synths by Alessandra Romeo.
Artwork by Giovanni Stax

A Sudden Cold

Lighting Ratio

No Will

Fishblood

Bianca

The Brightest Days

Compulsion

Embracing The Void

At Least The Snow

Ordinary Love

Track for the compilation of Distanze festival, Rome, 2014. 
Recorded and mixed at Subsound Studio, Rome, by Luciano Lamanna. A special thank to Giovanni Staccone for the collaboration. 

Winter Taught Me Silence

From Human Taxonomy. Mixed and recorded at Subsound Studio di Roma da Luciano Lamanna, mastered by Andrea Merlini, co-production by Valerio Lovecchio, Swiss Dark Nights, released by Manic Depression Records, 2016. 

Athlete

Waiting Room

Drums Of Affliction

5 Am

From Human Taxonomy. Mixed and recorded at Subsound Studio di Roma da Luciano Lamanna, mastered by Andrea Merlini, co-production by Valerio Lovecchio, Swiss Dark Nights, released by Manic Depression Records, 2016.

Paraphilia

Original Track by Nico
Track in RITUAL PROCESS 4 - A SUBURBAN ROMANCE
out via Ritual Process, 3th October 2017
limited edition 40 K7

Blue Bird Production

Purple Lips

On the EP SURVIVAL RATE, out on 27th May, 2013, Blood Rock Records.

Simona Ferrucci - voice, guitar, bass, drum machine programming.
Mushy - synth

All music and lyrics by Simona Ferrucci, except for synth by Mushy.
Recorded at Disorder Officina Musicale, Roma.
Mixing by Luciano Lamanna, Mastering by Andrea Merlini at Audio Division, Roma.

The Gift

Woman's Prayer

Un Roseau Pensant

State Of Matter

Solar Cycle 25

Golden Age- Labyrinth Of Memories

Cause And Effect

The Tide

Fernweh

Another Woman

Winter Severity Index is a cold wave/synth wave project headed by Simona Ferrucci, singer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist ( voice,guitar, bass guitar, synths and drum machine programming). 
The project was born in 2009 as a traditional female band with drums, bass, synths and guitar. After the decision of two members of the band to leave, WSI continued as a duo with Simona on guitars and with Valentina Fanigliulo , a.k.a. Mushy, on synths. Then in 2013 she started the collaboration with Alessandra Romeo on synths until July 2024, when WSI became a solo project.

The music of Winter Severity Index is marked out by an original mixture of different influences, from synth wave of the Eighties to the guitar shoegaze sound of the Nineties, plus some hint of trip hop and vaporwave. During the years the sound evolved and enriched their features, preserving however a  melancholic dark mood.

From 2011 the project played in more than one hundred venues all over Europe, taking part in important festivals such as the Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig, the Substance Festival in Los Angeles, and performed in important locations for contemporary art, such as MAXXI Museum in Rome and Studio Hrdinů in Prague, in the Národní Galerie. 
WSI shared the stage with great artists of the international cold wave scene from The Chameleons UK, to Lene Lovich, from Tropic of Cancer to Lebanon Hanover and so on, receiving agreements from the international press and web magazines. The project participated also to important radio transmission for RAI in Italy and Radio 3 in Spain.

The third album by Winter Severity Index , called DISGELO, has benn released by Manic Depression/Icy Cold and Blood Rock Records in February 2022.


Discography (partial): 

2010 - Winter Severity Index , EP, self produced, CDr, distributed by AF Music.
2013 - Survival rate, EP, Blood Rock Records, vinyl.
2014 -  Slanting Ray, LP, Blood Rock Records + Manic Depression Records, double vinyl and CD.
2016 - Human Taxonomy, LP, Manic Depression Records, vinyl and CD.
2017 - Katabasis, LP compilation, Manic Depression Records, CD.
2018 - Slanting ray, second press, LP, Blood Rock Records + Manic Depression Records, double  vinyl and CD.
2022-DISGELO,Manic Depression Records, Icy Cold Records, Blood Rock Records, vinyl and CD. 

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