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AydrA unleashes the definitive reissue of their cult classic debut, Icon of Sin, today via Rude Awakening Records. Experience the landmark album with live bonus material.

The fully remastered 1999 debut is finally available digitally — with the limited CD edition featuring exclusive 2025 live bonus tracks.

AydrA is set to headline the Rubiano Sound Festival in Montemarciano on August 29th, 2026, sharing the stage with Downfall and Crepuscolo. Mark your calendars!

Pioneering Italian technical death metal band AydrA is proud to announce its feature in the July 2026 issue of French cult magazine Metallian. The accompanying compilation CD includes the track 'Black Skin and Red Sand'.

AydrA to headline the Rubiano Music Festival in Montemarciano on August 29th, 2026, celebrating the Icon of Sin reissue. More details soon.

Back at Sound Machine between 1997 and 1998 to build the album Mauro still calls the AydrA album of a lifetime, wrapped in a sculpted face.

He recorded this bass line in 2004, left for humanitarian missions in Africa, and came back to restart the band.

From the Blaster in Monsano to a cassette pressed in Malaysia: how the Psycho Pain Control years carried AydrA out of the province.

The Greek underground fanzine Black Death Industry will bundle our 12-track The Best Of CD with its next issue.

The last survivor of Hydra moves to Milan for work, and a guitarist from Senigallia takes his place. The thread with the origins is cut.

The middle riff of Creator of Inner Cosmos, from the rehearsal room — getting ready for Montemarciano on August 29.

Brutal Zine #29 from Quito reviewed the Icon of Sin reissue, filing AydrA next to Atheist, Watchtower and Sadist.

Alex De Socchieri and his Sassari label picked up where Cryptic Soul failed, and the Scream From Italy compilations put AydrA on the map.

The title track of the album that came out just before AydrA went silent for five years.

The Rieti label that was supposed to press the album wasted months of the band's time. Out of that disappointment came friendships that lasted for years.

September 1996: the debut mini CD arrives, wrapped in two metaphysical paintings by Lorenzo Luzi. Brutal thrash/death, no trends, no compromise.

16 July 1994, Coop Senigallia: the sound engineer at the desk was David Lenci, and at the end of the night he offered to record an album.

Three minutes and forty-one seconds from Hyperlogical Non-Sense, tracked again in the studio.

Four tracks recorded at Falconara's cemetery between December '94 and January '95, the first split vocals, and a drummer who leaves before the tape is finished.

Interview, Icon Of Sin review, and our track on the covermount CD — merci Metallian!

July 1993: eight tracks recorded on a Tascam Porta One. The first demo under the name AydrA was called Demo 4, and the number was not random.

Even a machine glitches once — Marco loses a stick live and never drops the beat.

Headbangers Australia rates the 2026 remaster 9.5/10: "AydrA are an exceptional band that combine technical brilliance and emotional depth."

Two new members, a sharp turn toward technical thrash/death, and a name that falls away and signs itself anew: AydrA, 1992.

A 2004 song in the rehearsal room, played by a drummer who joined nine years after it was recorded.

Before AydrA there was Hydra: Falconara, a rehearsal room in the cemetery caretaker's house, and three demo tapes between 1988 and 1991.

Pioneering Italian technical death metal band AydrA is proud to announce its inclusion in "Abominium Vol. 2," a definitive book on Italian death metal history, which includes an exclusive "Best Of AydrA" CD. AydrA also featured in Vol. 1.

AydrA is proud to announce an interview feature in the latest issue of Romanian underground magazine "Slowly We Rot," which also includes the track "Forever Hide" on its accompanying compilation CD.

Experience 'The Day of the Wedding,' a track from AydrA's cult classic Icon of Sin (1999), now with a new visualizer online. Dive into the pure technical death metal sound that defined Italian tech-death.

Physical copies of the definitive Icon of Sin CD reissue have landed. Official release date is July 24, 2026.

We're working on a potential show with Italian technical death metal legends Sadist for October 15, 2026, in Italy. This event is currently to be confirmed, so stay tuned for updates.

AydrA's cult 1999 debut returns on 24 July 2026 via Rude Awakening Records, with live bonus material.