Watch the live video first. Red as the Sex of She Who Lives in Death, filmed at the 25th edition of Lithuania’s Kilkim Žaibu festival. Two bass players on one stage. A vocalist who sounds like Siouxsie Sioux wandered into a black metal rehearsal and decided to stay. That was my way in.
Ponte Del Diavolo is an Italian band from Turin that describes its own sound as blackened post punk: a blend of doom, black metal, post-punk and wave, carried by female vocals and an uncommon dual-bass setup. Their debut Fire Blades From The Tomb came out in February 2024 on Season of Mist; the follow-up De Venom Natura arrived on 13 February 2026. The name means Devil’s Bridge, after the medieval bridges Italian folklore says the devil built overnight.
Here is the detail that tells you how deliberate this band is. Every member is named after a poison. Erba del Diavolo, devil’s weed, on vocals. Nerium, oleander, on guitar. Segale Cornuta, ergot, on drums. Kratom and Krhura Abro on the two basses. The new album’s concept of nature as seduction and toxin, poison as a transformative agent, is not a theme they picked for one record. It is the founding logic of the band, hidden in the credits since day one.
The dual-bass setup is not a gimmick either. It is why the songs feel like they are pulling you under rather than hitting you. One bass grounds the guitar, the other moves like a second voice. Cold on top, warm and rotten underneath.
Why nobody knows them
Two albums in two years is a short runway. And Italian occult metal remains chronically under-covered by the big sites, even while the scene keeps producing bands like this. Turin is not Oslo. It should be, on current form.
Why now
De Venom Natura is the record where the concept and the sound lock together, produced in Turin by Danilo Battocchio and mastered in Stockholm by Magnus Lindberg. Yes, the Cult of Luna drummer. That pedigree tells you which shelf this band is aiming for. And the Kilkim Žaibu footage proves they can carry it live.
Start with the live video above. Then put on De Venom Natura in full, in the dark. Let the second bass find you.
Listen to this: De Venom Natura
