Lili Refrain new album "Nagal" announced on Subsound Records!

Experimental heavy alchemist Lili Refrain returns to grace the year 2026 with her new sonic ritual and sixth studio album "Nagalite", to be issued on March 27th through Italian label Subsound Records. Watch her entrancing new video for "Nagal".

Her new track "Nagal" is the beating heart of Lili Refrain's new album —  a tribal trance that weaves together acoustic and electronic pulses, Mediterranean and choral voices, sinuous guitars, and a rhythmic build-up that unfolds like a ritual of transformation. It is a song of metamorphosis: an energy that crawls, rises, coils, and finally releases. It is accompanied by a short film written by Lili Refrain and directed by Carlo Settembrini. "Nagal is inspired by the ancient Sanskrit Naga, a sacred serpent symbolizing deep wisdom and transformation. This visual piece explores light and shadow through symbolic imagery, guiding a primal figure from emergence and knowledge to purification and unity with life’s deeper mysteries," she says.

Lili Refrain's sixth studio album "Nagalite" is a suite in four movements. Four alchemical states of an imaginary serpentine metamorphosis, a practice of transformation that crosses the body, memory, and the historical time we inhabit. A sonic reflection that speaks of us, in an era where wars return to burn and horror becomes normalized, dissolving into background noise. Amidst this darkness, the serpent becomes an act of love: the possibility to change, to shed the skin that hurts, to refuse the repetition of suffering. "Nagalite is an invitation to remember this. To transform not only to save ourselves, but to rediscover the thread of love that binds us to all that exists," says Lili Refrain.

Entirely written, performed and executed by Lili Refrain, "Nagalite" is built through real-time looping using voice, guitar, bass, synth, floor tom, bass drum and drum machine. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at 16th Cellar Studio in Rome by Stefano Morabito.

Lili Refrain is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer based in Rome, Italy. Born in 2007, the solo project “Lili Refrain” operates with electric guitar, voice, percussion and synthesizers, overlaying them in real time through loop stations. The atmosphere she evokes covers a wide sonic range that combines minimalist, folk, psychedelic, blues, metal and opera textures, without using any computers or pre-recorded tracks. Her songs are embedded with ritual energies and her live performances are a cathartic experience capable of leading the listener into an unforgettable act beyond the boundaries of any genre.

Considered by many to be a true revelation, Lili Refrain has played and left her mark at many international festivals as Roadburn (Netherlands), Hellfest (France), Desertfest (Belgium), Motocultor (France), Inferno Fest (Norway), Mystic Fest (Poland), Dunk Fest (Belgium), Midgardsblot (Norway), Kilkim Zaibu (Lituania), AmFest (Spain), Fekete Zaj (Hungary), Ascension Festival (Iceland), Sonic RItes (Finland), Extramuralhas (Portugal), to name a few. Throughout the years, she has collaborated and shared the stage with the likes of Heilung, The Cult, Meshuggah, Ben Frost, Steve Vai, Current 93, Sieben, Cannibals Corps, Megadeath, Napalm Death, Anna Von Hausswolff, Lingua Ignota, Author and Punisher, Alcest, Oranssi Pazuzu, Testament, Gojira, Godflesh.

New album "Nagalite"
Out March 27th on Subsound Records (LP/CD/digital)
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Subsound Records links
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