Vindicta The Rue Morgue Records Interview

A dark ritual is coming. From the ashes of the mysterious Dogma comes Vindicta. You could say they have emerged from the ashes of a chapter that had run its course. What was left behind became the foundation for something deliberately darker, more ruthless, and uncompromisingly authentic in its vision. The band was built from the ground up around five musicians from across Europe and North America, each carrying years of professional experience and a shared belief in metal as a total art form: music, mythology, and ceremony as one. 

Live, VINDICTA is a spectacle. Elaborate costumes, corpse paint, and character-driven performance transform each set into a ritual. Five archetypes take the stage, figures history tried to silence, brought to life through sound, ceremony and blood. The experience is cinematic, physical, and unmistakably human beneath the paint. 

Musically, the band draws from across the metal spectrum: powerful riffs, arena-ready choruses, and the anthemic energy of classic 80s metal, delivered through a modern, polished production. Familiar, yet entirely their own. 

The debut single “The Face of the Clown” announced their arrival and received an immediate response from the metal community worldwide. The Reckoning Tour 2026, spanning Australia, Japan, is the next step in establishing VINDICTA as one of the most compelling new forces in international metal and this week I sat down for an interview with Grace Pasturini (Lilith) from the band to talk about the tour.

Before I even ask a question Grace began to tell me how excited she is about being able to bring Vindicta to Australia.

“Well first of all it’s our first tour in Australia ever and I think when you launch a new band like that and it’s already a world tour it’s super exciting and we set the bar super high so we want to give an even better show than what people know us for,” she says. “Yeah it’s going to be a very immersive experience a theatrical experience with storytelling from birth to death with rebirth that obviously reflects also what happened to us in real life but I think because we’re so excited to be launching this new project and because the fans are so passionate about it that we’re gonna have the best time ever.”

The biggest surprise around Vindicta’s career to date has been perhaps just how much traction the band has made since the members left Dogma. Grace admits that while it has been a pleasant surprise it has still been a tough journey.

“Everything has moved so quickly and now that we have full control over the band – It’s not anymore that we’re controlled by somebody else producing it, but we’re the producers,” she explains. “It’s a lot of work It’s very challenging, but that also comes with very rewarding things. For example, you know you and everything you do with that comes from you and you only. You give your personal input and you’re creative with things that you always wanted to be creative with. So, it’s definitely really challenging because there’s so many things to do when you take a project of this calibre completely in your own hands but it’s very rewarding and everything is moving really fast.”

As we discussed the departure from Dogma and the subsequent journey into Vindicta I asked Grace if there was ever a time when she felt like giving up.

“So many times in the other project that I wanted to leave what made me stay was the rewarding shows and the connection with the fans but ultimately it was too much so we decided to depart from it,” she says with a hint of sadness in her voice. “But yeah there were many times that I wanted to quit and I just didn’t because of the rewarding aspects of you know doing what you love. But still after a while even that is too much and you don’t want to compromise anymore your integrity because of it so now finally we don’t have to you know sacrifice anything and compromise anything of ourselves and still get to do what we’ve loved so it’s like a gift.”

Now though Grace admits that she, and her bandmates, are using that painful journey and the rebirth out of it for their debut album which they are currently working on.

“So, we’re working on a concept album first of all with storytelling about a birth, a death and a rebirth like all good storytelling so there’s a narrative and there’s a narrative of growth and sacrifice and ultimately standing up again,” she says with a laugh. “But the yeah the songs are coming pretty quickly. Surprisingly it’s been a fairly natural and spontaneous process. Everybody has a different you know musical background so you know everybody has a really very different input into the songs.”

“When we sat down to discuss our new music we said we wanted it to be more aggressive, a bit more modern,” she continues. “We wanted to keep the catchy chorus elements, you know, the big sing-along choruses, keep the symphonic aspect but make it more modern, more aggressive. We wanted to explore with more aggressive vocals, extreme vocals, and more complex guitar work.”

And to finish off Grace has a special message for anyone heading out to the Vindicta shows.

“I’ve heard you’re very passionate and that I am super looking forward to perform for you because I think we can match each other’s intensity.”

Vindicta are currently in Australia touring.