New single emerges from unexpected partnership with musician from VersOver
- Daniel Lugondi
- Feb 20
- 2 min read
In collaboration with Maurício Magaldi (VersOver), Daniel Lugondi charts a new path for the band's future
The pandemic was a terrible experience for many people, especially in Brazil. However, in the case of Hammurabi frontman Daniel Lugondi, even in the midst of chaos, it was an excellent opportunity to establish new friendships and, through them, express the anger, rage and all the discontent of those days through music. Connected in an unusual way, the person responsible for the partnership was the São Paulo tattoo artist Ricardo Ximenes, from Raijin Tattoo, widely recognized for his traditional Japanese style. Ximenes left his mark on the skin of both Daniel Lugondi and Maurício Magaldi, who together conceived the songs that will be part of the band's next album.
For Maurício Magaldi, a longtime acquaintance of Brazilian prog/power metal fans, with his previous experience in Thanatus (mid-1990s) and VersOver (1997-present), “writing with Daniel was a very interesting experience, which forced me to learn a completely new musical language. What you will hear in ‘4’ and the following songs is a meeting of minds, a creative collision of genres that I hope will speak to a variety of heavy music lovers.”
On November 2nd, All Souls' Day, the duo released their first composition, “4 (My First Meeting with Death)”, emphasizing the first encounter with death. More specifically, in Lugondi's experience, a story about having witnessed a car accident when he was still a child, where a family was mutilated and murdered by a drunk truck driver who was driving the wrong way on the Via Expressa de Contagem, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte.
Listen to the single “4 (My First Meeting with Death)” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2rqNfe4TeA
Although it is not a new theme, traffic accidents are explored again by Hammurabi, who addressed the plot in “Highway of Death”, present on the album “The Extinction Root” (2010), released by the pioneering Cogumelo Records and distributed in the United States by Relapse Records, in the golden age of the miners.
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