Uzeda is an Italian quartet (Giovanna Cacciola on vocals, Raffaele Gulisano on bass, Davide Oliveri on drums, Agostino Tilotta on guitar) that represents one of the most original takes on noise-rock of the 1990s. Out of Colours (A.V. Arts, 1991), Waters (A.V. Arts, 1993) and the four-song EP 4 (Touch and Go, 1995) slowly cemented a style that is both brutal and lyrical, fierce and mercyful, physical and psychological, but never derivative of the American masters of noise-rock.

Different Section Wires (Touch and Go, 1998) further refined the idea, with Cacciola's husky vocals taking a stronger psychodramatic role in a generally darker atmosphere, and a tribal-jazzy rhythm section that indulges in time changes worthy of prog-rock but coupled with shrieking guitar that makes Sonic Youth sound mainstream and topped with wild dynamics: in each song, the center of mass is continuously shifting, an effect that provides for unreleased tension, like a hardcore rigmarole that gets stretched and diluted but actually increases its detonating power.

Giovanna Cacciola and Agostino Tilotta then joined the band Bellini, that debuted with Snowing Sun.

After an eight-year hiatus, Uzeda reformed and recorded Stella (Touch and Go, 2006), another surgical essay in shrill dissonance. Wailing opens the proceedings with cluster bombs of out-of-tune guitar wed to jazzy drumming and a general atmosphere of dementia that grows louder and louder while vocals mutate from childish wailing to desperate screams. Typical of the elastic bass-drums interchange is What I Meant When I Called Your Name, Cacciola's best impersonation of Lydia Lunch and Dagmar Krause. The hallucinated pseudo-blues dynamics of This Heat is as musical as the band gets, in a manner that would make Captain Beefheart proud. The ideal vehicle for Cacciola's delirious vocal excursions is probably something like Time Below Zero, a sparse landscape that turns menacing, intense and eventually explosive. Best guitar workouts are, instead, Gold, a concentrate of psychological tension via noisy indulgence, and Steam, Rain & Other Stuff, a propulsive, cascading layer of distortion on a feeble stream of consciousness. Best balance of dirty guitar acrobatics and senseless vocal gymnastics is perhaps Camillo, the closest thing to a "catchy" song on this album.
Despite the cacophonous premises, there is a sort of classical mastery in the way the band pens perfectly impossible harmonies. The limit of this music is the song format: it sounds contradictory that one detonates the song format only to replace it with a format of the same duration and the same scope.

Bellini released Small Stones (Temporary Residence, 2005), The Precious Prize Of Gravity (Temporary Residence, 2009) and Before the Day has Gone (2018), both produced by Steve Albini.

After a long hiatus, Bellini returned with Before The Day Has Gone (Temporary, 2018).