Lili Refrain is a multi-instrumentalist...

composer and performer based in Rome, Italy. Her solo project was founded in 2007. She uses electric guitar, vocals, percussions and synthesizers, overlapping them in real time through loop stations. The atmosphere she evokes cover a wide swath of sonic territory that combines minimalist, folk, psychedelic, blues, metal, lyrical opera textures, without using any computer or pre-recorded tracks. Her songs are embedded with ritualistic energies and her live performances are a visceral and cathartic experience that lead the listener through an unforgettable mesmerising act.

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Since the release of...

her 5th album "MANA" (Subsound Records - 2022), Lili Refrain landed on the stages of the most prestigious European festivals such as Roadburn, Hellfest, Desertfest, Inferno and many more, revealing herself as the rising star of archetypal rituality.
Noticed by Heilung, who took her with them on a full European tour and legendary The Cult in during the end of 2022 and 2023, then she joined Death Cult for their memorial "83-23" UK/Ireland Tour.

New Album out on March 27, 2026

NAGALITE is the new release by Lili Refrain, a suite in four movements.
Four alchemical states of an imaginary serpentine metamorphosis, a practice of transformation that crosses the body, memory, and the historical time we inhabit.
A sonic reflection that speaks of us, in an era where wars return to burn and horror becomes normalized, dissolving into background noise.
And in the midst of this darkness, the serpent becomes an act of love: the possibility to change, to shed the skin that hurts, to refuse the repetition of suffering.