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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ALBANY, GA: Morella Records announces the release of Sanctified Hunger, a new Album from GIO, available July 17, 2026.

SANCTIFIED HUNGER

New Concept Album from Goth Rock Artist GIO Out Now on Morella Records

THE TESTIMONY IS DELIVERED.
Sanctified Hunger is a twelve track album built in three acts, structured as testimony. Across the first ten tracks, GIO, an immortal narrator who has watched every era claim divine sanction for its cruelty, lays out five centuries of evidence. Then the narrator steps aside. The album’s final two tracks, “I Am Crying” and “In My Name,” are written and delivered in Christ’s own voice, closing the record with grief and verdict on what has been done in His name.

The album is dark, moody, melodic goth rock with atmosphere, weight, and something to say.

TRACKLIST
Act I: The Byronic Observer
1. Well Trained
2. I Was Never Yours
3. Litany of Dust
4. The Fate We Let Arise
Act II: The Pattern and the Wound
5. Their Final Test
6. I Am He
7. Observed Devotion
8. The Damned
Act III: The Reckoning
9. You Are
10. Holy War
11. I Am Crying
12. In My Name
Bonus Track (direct purchase on Bandcamp only): “Dear God” (XTC cover
Featuring Diane Dubois of Lunar Paths), available exclusively with full album download.
ABOUT GIO
GIO writes from the perspective of an immortal witness who has lived through every institution, war, and ideology, always watching, never intervening until now. The patterns are accelerating. The testimony cannot wait.

LISTEN / PURCHASE
Morella Records is an independent Gothic rock label based in Georgia, home to GIO, Vampire Valentine, and Glass Coffin Club. The label streams its full catalog 24/7 on Discord, with unreleased material available to the Discord community one month ahead of release.