Today is the Day
Supernova

"Supernova" (obviously the name from which the eponymous label that now republishes it was taken) represented the first step for Today Is The Day within a path made of devastation, enlightenment, perdition, and eternal curse. When the album was brought into the world by Amphetamine Reptile Records, a label that at that time traced the path of noise that became rock verb, the calendar marked 1993, and considering that we are already three decades away is indicative of how what was a recent memory is beginning to turn into a memory of the past. A memory that, thanks to the reissue (with the addition of two tracks) by Supernova Records, returns to sow its weeds in today's arid, abandoned, and uncultivated sonic prairies, where the qualitative value of music is an accessory almost never present among the standard features of the bands that present themselves before listeners and increasingly an unaffordable optional (especially for the manufacturers...). "Supernova" represented a dazzling debut, a frightening and terrifying concentrate of neurasthenic rage applied to guitar, voice, bass, and drums. A vision of being sound that became daunting, despite its urgency of evident punk extraction, but that was applied in a context certainly more irritating, slow, and hostile, terroristic in extracting industrial hard rock and taking it for a walk in a world made of altered psychedelic hallucinations, psychological sludge, thin walls of separation with the most cryptic and gloomy metal, and dark predictions of impending apocalypses, but also diversions into experimental contexts not so common at the time, referring to the space-time electronics of "Blind Man At Mystic Lake" or the cinematic narrations of "The Begging", with the ultimate aim of conceiving a work that moved the center of musical knowledge forward ("Self Portrait" already went beyond post-core and post-rock) in an area that from that moment became the exclusive property of Today Is The Day. A milestone!