Winter Severity Index reunite original line-up for ‘The Brightest Days’
Winter Severity Index mark their 15th anniversary with ‘The Brightest Days’, reuniting their original line-up on Icy Cold Records and Manic Depression Records.
Italian new wave electro act Winter Severity Index mark their 15th anniversary with The Brightest Days, an album reuniting the band’s original line-up, out November 6 on Icy Cold Records (vinyl) and Manic Depression Records (CD).
The reunited line-up brings back Simona Ferrucci (vocals, guitar), Diana Salzo (bass), Valeria Tirabassi (drums) and Valentina Fanigliulo (synths), the musicians who first played together when the project started fifteen years ago. The band reinterprets nine tracks from its earliest repertoire instead of simply re-recording them: five were originally available only on the self-produced “Winter Severity Index” CDR in 2011. The other four, “The Brightest Days,” “No Will,” “Bianca” and “Embracing the Void,” first appeared in different arrangements on “Slanting Ray” (Blood Rock Records / Manic Depression Records, 2014).
The reunion has also returned Winter Severity Index to stages across Europe. A live video for the track “The Wiser,” filmed at the Dark Decay Festival in PoznaÅ„, Poland on June 25, 2026, is online now.
The vinyl edition is limited to 300 copies on white vinyl with a 2-page insert; the CD comes in a 3-panel digipak.
Tracklist for ‘The Brightest Days’
- A1. The Brightest Days
- A2. While We’re Living
- A3. The Wiser
- A4. Embracing the Void
- B1. Severity
- B2. Bianca
- B3. Blind Me
- B4. No Will
- B5. Motionless
About Winter Severity Index
Winter Severity Index is an Italian new wave electro act that formed around a self-produced CDR released in 2011. The band released its second album, “Human Taxonomy,” in 2016 on vinyl and CD, followed by “Slanting Ray” reissues and, in 2022, the album “Disgelo” on Icy Cold Records and Manic Depression Records, the same two labels now behind “The Brightest Days.” For its 15th-anniversary release, the band reunited its original line-up of Simona Ferrucci, Diana Salzo, Valeria Tirabassi and Valentina Fanigliulo to revisit the songs that first defined the project, bringing the band back to European stages alongside the new record.
Support Side-Line
More people read Side-Line than ever, and there is still no paywall and no advertising. Readers pay for it instead - from $5 a month.
Why we ask
Advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news organisations we have not put up a paywall, and we refuse to add annoying advertising, so we need to ask for your help. Side-Line’s independent journalism takes time, money and hard work to produce, and we do it to push the artists we like, who are equally fighting to survive.
Handled by PayPal.
Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!
