Eastern Gate Preview: Daniele Brusaschetto Returns With New Album Dichotomous
Daniele Brusaschetto is a Turin, Italy based underground lifer whose catalog stretches back to the 1990s, consistently blurring the lines between heavy rock, noise, and experimental songcraft. He has never sounded interested in genre rules as an endpoint. Instead, he treats them like raw material, shaping records around texture, tension, and mood as much as riffs.
Lineup
For Dichotomous, the project runs as a power trio: Daniele Brusaschetto (vocals, guitar), Daniele Pagliero (bass), and Alberto “Mono” Marietta (drums).
Album overview
Dichotomous earns its title through contrast: abrasive surges against melodic drift, tight forward motion against sections that feel like they dissolve at the edges. It is heavy, but not in a single way. The weight comes from density and atmosphere, from the way the arrangements keep pushing even when the song feels like it is staring into itself.
Highlights that stayed with me
The opener “Nosediving” arrives with a lyric-driven video that looks like a late-night transmission degrading the longer you watch. Over a track that pushes forward with near-constant urgency, the visuals lean into CRT glare, scanlines, VU meters, and red-green color shocks, cutting between performance shots and fractured collage art like memory splicing itself in real time. The all-caps text does not just subtitle the song, it sharpens it, turning stray thoughts into blunt statements that land between flashes of urban night and distorted faces. By the end, as the audio falls away, the imagery tightens into a simple, heavy payoff, like the signal runs out of strength.
Followed by “Remember Not To Forget” hits as the first real momentum shift after the opener, riding a catchy solo and a bridge that charges the final stretch. It is the kind of track that turns the album from “setting the mood” into “locking you in,” giving the record its first proper surge of forward pull.
Listen to Nosediving
Language split and standout moment
One of the album’s most memorable moves is its bilingual shape. The English side carries a moodier, more enigmatic tone, and it peaks with “Blank T-shirt On The Radio,” a slow, mysterious, melodic cut with stoner-leaning haze that feels like the end of a chapter. After that, the Italian-language run brings a different temperature: faster, more relaxed riffing, a lift in vitality, and a sense of motion that refreshes the record without breaking Brusaschetto’s signature atmosphere.
Who this album is for
If you like heavy music that is not afraid to get strange, Dichotomous is an easy recommendation. Start here if you are into gritty, texture-forward records where the production feels like part of the story, or if you want something that can hit hard without relying on the usual genre tropes. If you prefer clean, predictable structures and “single-first” albums, this one might feel more like a slow obsession than instant comfort, but that is exactly where its power lives.
Track list
- Nosediving
- Remember Not To Forget
- Choking Clouds Of Ammonia
- Blank T-shirt On The Radio
- Jeux Sans Frontières
- Assenza
- Mare Profumo Di Mare
- Nera