Måneskin

Template:Infobox album ***Teatro d'ira: Vol. I*** is the major label debut studio album by Italian rock band **Måneskin**. The album was released on 19 March 2021 and peaked at number one on the Italian albums chart, receiving a platinum certificationa by FIMI. It also reached number one on the Finnish, Lithuanian, and Swedish albums chart. Elsewhere it reached the Top 5 position on weekly charts across Europe and UK Rock & Meta Albums Chart. It includes singles "I Wanna Be Your Slave" and the Sanremo and Eurovision-winning "Beggin'", as well as hit songs "Zitti e buoni" and "Coraline".

## Description

From late 2019 until spring 2020, the band lived in London where they refined their playing skills, music style and worked on new material. This is the first part of a larger recording project entirely written by the four members of the group. Unlike the previous *Il ballo della vita* (2018), the album was recorded entirely live in order to recreate the same atmosphere that Måneskin felt during the concerts held in previous years and can be heard in 1970s bootleg recordings.

According to the band, the project's title "Teatro d'ira" (Template:Translation) and meaning are of "cathartic anger aimed at oppressions and oppressors, which leads to venting and rebelling against everything that makes you feel wrong and which, as a result, leads to a rebirth and change. We wanted to place this very powerful force in a context, that of the theater, which in the common imagination is perceived as elegant and calm. We like this antithesis: a contrast that lives when the curtain opens and, instead of a show or a ballet, we find ourselves catapulted into this explosion of energy. Theatre is a metaphor to represent art, the place where this powerful impulse generates something artistic and positive."

This concept was reiterated by the group during the presentation of the album: "Each piece was composed entirely by us, from the first to the last note. It will be a record out of the canons, we are aware of it but we screwed it up to give you the most sincere and real version of ourselves, because the music is the only thing that matters, and this time it will be only her to speak. For now, make yourself comfortable in the armchairs, the Theatre of Wrath is about to raise its curtain."

Unlike the previous album which was inspired by their muse "Marlena", this album was inspired by them. Album lyrics are dealing with various topics related to the young generation. With "Vent'anni" and "Zitti e buoni" being social manifestos about individuality, others like "I Wanna Be Your Slave" talk about duality in love relationships, and "La paura del buio" about people who fear both the unknown and other people for being different.

## Release

The album was released by Sony Music, McDonald's Records and RCA Records, packaged as a digipak including 12-page booklet with lyrics. It was also released in a vinyl edition.

A week after its release it topped the FIMI Albums Chart and was certified Platinum for selling over 70,000 copies. Following the victory, on 28 May the album and its tracks - especially single "Zitti e buoni" and songs "I Wanna Be Your Slave" and "Coraline" - started to enter the Top 20 and Top 5 of weekly charts across Europe. By 27 May 2021, the tracks accumulated over 100 million streams on Spotify. With streams boosted by the band’s Eurovision win by 15 June it had over 340 million streams, and reached Top 15 on the *Billboard* World Albums Chart.

## Reception

In Rockol's 8.5/10 review, Mattia Marzi praised members playing and writing skills. According to him, it has influences of power trios from the 1970s, and the Sonic Youth up to Arctic Monkeys, with individual tracks going from hard rock "Zitti e buoni", dance-rock "I Wanna Be Your Slave", power ballad "Vent'anni", gothic rock "Coraline", and garage rock "Lividi sui gomiti". He concludes it is full of "anger and fury, including biting guitar strings, powerful bass lines, hard hits on the drums. And the over-the-top interpretation of Damiano. You still have time to get on the wagon."

In *Rolling Stone Italia*, Claudio Tedesco's review praised the arrogance of their 20s, to be an artistic step forward in comparison to the previous studio album, the quality of their playing and production, and that are using music and lyrics to strongly say something about diversity, fragility, phobias, sex, desire for revenge, representing a world of losers like the girl from "Coraline". He criticized that it can still be heard their musical influences, although this cannot be taken into account for them because they are still young, that in some tracks Damiano is vocally overdoing the emotions but it will be appreciated in this period of time, and that sounds better in Italian than in English songs "I Wanna Be Your Slave" and "For You Love".

In laut.de's 4/5 review, Philipp Kause found it difficult to locate their style which is somewhere between alternative-funk rock and hard rock, almost heavy metal; he saw a similarity to Red Hot Chili Peppers. That the lyrics are emotional and charged as should be in rock'n'roll, sometimes delivered in rap rock fashion, and it is good that the lyrics are mainly in Italian rather than in the English language because many nuances and metaphors used in the lyrics which also share philosophical messages would not work well in English. In conclusion, he stated that band members "bring a considerable amount with them in order not to go down in history as a one hit wonder: appealing potential as a performer, accurate craft and compositional skills."

In Ondarock's 5/10 review, Antonio Silvestri was more critical than the others, concluding the quartet is still young but ambitious and led by talented frontman Damiano David whose voice stands out, and that the album is definitely an artistic growth and only with successive recordings from the project *Teatro d'ira* this album will give a definitive verdict on their future and impact.

## Track listing

All tracks are written by Damiano David, Ethan Torchio, Thomas Raggi, Victoria De Angelis.

## Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Group
* Damiano David – vocals
* Victoria De Angelis – bass guitar
* Thomas Raggi – guitar
* Ethan Torchio – drums

Production and design
* Måneskin – production
* Fabrizio Ferraguzzo – production
* Enrico La Falce – recording, engineering, mastering
* Luca Pellegrini – recording
* Enrico Brun - additional production
* Corrado "Mecna" Grilli - graphic design
* Gabriele Giussani - photography

## Charts

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Chart performance for *Teatro d'ira: Vol. I*
 US World Albums (*Billboard*) | 11

## Certifications

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## References

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