Natus Est: Chronicle of an Experiment That Became an Album (Almost by Accident)

How to Hold a Metal Christmas Mass (Without Planning)

It's not like I woke up one day thinking, "I'll do a metal-themed Christmas Mass and it'll be epic." It turned out differently. A few years ago, I started playing with the idea of taking liturgical texts—the ones you hear at Mass, the ones in Latin you never fully understand—and translating them into modern music. Not to desecrate, but to understand.

The first experiments were small: a “Gloria In Excelsis Deo”, a “Kyrie”I played them for a few people, some musician friends, even a couple of priests. And instead of turning up their noses, they reacted well. Very well. Step by step, song by song, "“Natus Est” took shape almost by itself.

The Question That Changed Everything

Last year, as “Cohors Petrae”, we published “The King is Born” as a single. It worked better than expected. And “Eight Days”, with the Holy Week experienced from within, gave us the satisfaction of having brought many people inside the mystery of the Resurrection. And there we asked ourselves a simple but uncomfortable question: in a time when everyone's talking about "spirit," who really feels it? People scrolling through their feeds, consuming content, using Christmas hashtags. But feeling—really feeling—is another thing entirely.

We decided to give it a try FEEL us, that mystery. Not through scented candles or ambient playlists, but with distorted guitars and symphonic orchestrations. Because if you think about it, God becoming flesh in a stable—not in a palace, not with honors, but in a stable—is objectively the most disruptive, loudest, most subversive thing in history. A cosmic earthquake. And the earthquakes are not whispered.

12 Songs, An Entire Liturgy

“Natus Est” follows the complete structure of the Christmas Mass. It's not a fictional concept album: it's the true liturgy, the one the Church has celebrated for centuries, translated into progressive metal:

1. The King is Born
2. Kyrie
3. Gloria In Excelsis Deo
4. Today the Savior is born for us
5. Alleluia
6. I Believe in One God
7. Bread and Wine
8. Sanctus
9. Our Father
10. Lamb of God
11. Magnificat
12. The Savior is born

Each song inhabits a tension: total respect for faith, total freedom of expression. Latin and Italian texts, guitars that distort but don't betray, blast beats that serve the mystery instead of covering it up.

A Nativity That No One Sees

The cover says what the album tries to do: a Nativity scene set in a modern subway, people walking distracted with their phones in their hands, and there, on the ground, the Holy Family ignored. It's the world we live in. Connected but absent. We speak of spirit but don't listen to it.

This album solves nothing. It doesn't pretend to convert anyone. It's just an attempt—our own, personal, imperfect—to amplify something that risks getting lost in the background noise. To remember that that birth was not a sweet and silent event. It was a scandal.

They don't want to offend anyone.

We did what we felt needed to be done, the way it needed to be done. It's an album that respects liturgy and faith, but seeks a new language to express them. Twelve songs that try to make people feel— really feel —that mystery that risks getting lost in the background noise.
I don't know if it will work, if it will reach the right people, if we'll be excommunicated, if anyone will listen to it from beginning to end as it should be listened to. But it's there. And for us, that's enough.

Where to Listen

“Natus Est” is available on:

• Spotify

• Apple Music

• YouTube

• Amazon Music

• Pandora

• Tidal

If you're interested, listen to it as you would listen to a Mass: from start to finish, without jumping. Or not, do as you feel. But know that it's there, if you want it.