Italian Technical Death Metal Masters AYDRA Release “Icon of Sin” Reissue via Rude Awakening Records!




AYDRA, pioneers of Italian technical death metal, are proud to announce that the definitive CD reissue of the legendary album “Icon of Sin” is available from today, June 23rd via Rude Awakening Records. The album is now available in a remastered version, expanded with four exclusive bonus live tracks.


Watch the visualizer video of “Lost Time Fury”: 



A milestone of late-'90s Italian death metal, “Icon of Sin” is AYDRA's first full-length, released in 1999 on Sound Machine Recordings after the “Psycho Pain Control” mini CD (1996, Dawn of Sadness). Composed between 1995 and 1997 and recorded in 1998 by David Lenci, the album marks the technical maturity of the band from Italy's Marche region and their full entry into the canon of Italian death metal.


Their stated influences - Death, Cynic, Atheist, Pestilence - are the starting point for a songwriting style that blends extreme technicality, melody and storytelling: ten tracks where every passage is calculated, but the punch always lands. “We were looking for music that was violent but considered, intricate yet keeping the essential structure of a song”, says Mauro Pacetti.


On release, the album earned exceptional reviews. Flash, one of Italy's leading metal magazines at the time, featured it in the New Comer column with a perfect 100/100 score, calling it “a true masterpiece of the genre”, praising “a songwriting ability and technical level that would put most bands currently around the world to shame”, comparing the power of the songs to “stuff we hadn't heard since the days of Atheist themselves”. Years later Metal Archives would define it “one of the mandatory opuses from the Italian metal scene” (91%). The CD has been reissued in Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia and Panama.


Today the 23rd of June 2026 we have the definitive edition: after the vinyl reissue released by Rude Awakening Records in 2024, the album returns remastered by Marco Bianchella at White Rock Studios and expanded with four exclusive bonus live tracks recorded by the current line-up at 2025 shows - one song from each album of the band's discography: “Carnage” (from “Psycho Pain Control”), “Icon of Sin” (title-track), “Hyperlogical Non-sense”, and “Forever Hide” (from “Leave to Nowhere”). A full summary of thirty years of career.


The 2026 edition comes as a CD jewel case with a 12-page booklet. Cover artwork and background illustrations are by Eugenio Morganti, sculptor. Booklet layout and logo are by Mauro Pacetti, the band's frontman; current line-up photos by Marco Priori.


The album is dedicated - among others - to David Lenci, no longer with us, who originally recorded it in 1998 at Sound Machine Recording: this edition is also a tribute to him.


Tracklist:


1. Icon of Sin

2. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

3. No One's Tale

4. Reflect and Desist

5. Pleasure Dome

6. The Day of the Wedding

7. Xavier's Dream

8. Lost Time Fury

9. Night Drive

10. N.O. RMX V2 (instrumental)


Bonus Live tracks (exclusive to 2026 reissue)


11. Carnage — from Psycho Pain Control (1996) · live 19.04.2025 · Gremium MC, Foggia

12. Icon of Sin — from Icon of Sin (1999) · live 18.04.2025 · Florentia rockclub, San Benedetto (AP)

13. Hyperlogical Non-sense — from Hyperlogical Non-sense (2004) · live 14.11.2025 · Il Borgo, Vicenza

14. Forever Hide — from Leave to Nowhere (2024) · live 15.11.2025 · Centrale Rock Club, Erba (MI)


“Icon of Sin” line-up (1999):


Mauro Pacetti - Vocals, Bass

Francesco Olivi - Lead Guitar

Marcello Lammoglia - Rhythm Guitar

Nicola Raffaeli - Drums


Current line-up (2026):


Mauro Pacetti - Vocals

Marcello Lammoglia - Guitar

Giuseppe Cardamone - Guitar

Andrea Mastromarco - Bass

Marco Bianchella - Drums


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