Nilk - Dare to break the loop
Nilk — official music, annotated lyrics, and behind-the-song stories. Dare to break the loop. Also known as Nilk Sound.
Discover the music →Behind the name
Nothingness, the void I carried inside for years.
The beginning.
The constant: hope, faith, love.
What I held onto when I didn’t know who I was, nor where I was going. It’s flipped because that’s how it really works: true love turns your existence upside down.
There’s more inside this name too.
“Link”, anagrammed: connection instead of isolation.
Linkin Park, assonance: they made me feel less alone, right when I was.
Behind the mask
Moon, don’t be shy, come on, I know you.
You show your smile to those who only see the light,
but I’ve seen how it appears from the heart of the woods.
— From Moon's other side
I went from nothing to something in 1994. Then, somehow, I went back to nothing. That’s where I started writing.
Bullying and loneliness aren’t just memories, they were the spark. The need to love and be loved consumed me, even before I understood what love really was. I held onto the only thing my parents truly left me: faith. Not as an easy answer, but as the only hope that didn’t collapse. God pulled me out of more falls than I can count. Today, as an adult, husband, father, I’ve decided not to hide anymore.
This music is how I do it. It’s how I say that everything has always made sense.
If you’ve been in the dark, I don’t need to explain anything.
Behind the music
I don’t make music to prove anything, I’m not interested in being praised, nor do I think I’m good. I care about being real. I write about what I’ve lived: emptiness, faith, love, falls, returns, family. “Heavy” themes? Trivial themes? I don’t care, they’re the only ones I truly know.
Music was first a refuge, then a way to stay standing. Today it’s a testimony: everything has made sense, and I keep fighting every day to defend that meaning. I grew up with Linkin Park, with Chester screaming what I had inside too. Pain, fragility, anger: his voice released everything I couldn’t say. It was cathartic, liberating.
After this list, most of you will question my artistic coherence. I found poetry in Rancore, expressiveness in every note sung by Sia, reality in the themes of Negramaro, uniqueness in System of a Down. Those feelings stayed. If listening to one of my tracks makes you feel something, or you recognize yourself, even just for a moment, then it worked. The rest doesn’t matter.