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THE SPIKES






              Photo Cred: Dead Horse Branding




              The Spikes is a genre-defying singer-             More than a music project, The Spikes
              songwriter, poet, and painter. Born               is an evolving artistic identity. Iago’s
              and raised in Rome, Italy, fluent in              multidisciplinary work—across music,
              Italian, Iago brings a cinematic                  visual art, and literature—reflects a
              sensibility to his work, shaped by a              cohesive aesthetic that is poetic,
              childhood spent on film sets and a life           unflinching, and deeply human. He has
              long immersion in the arts.                       exhibited paintings in galleries and is
                                                                preparing to release his second book
             The  Spikes’ debut self- titled EP                 of poetry with select pieces performed
             introduced listeners to his minimalist yet         at live readings, and co-founded the
             emotionally charged sound. His break               punk band Delicate Prey at age 16.
             out single,“Guns for the Children”—a
             stark meditation on violence and lost in           Splitting his time between NewYork
             nocence— releasing on June 6, 2025,                and Berlin, The Spikes will release
             quickly gaining traction, with the                 new singles throughout summer
             accompanying music video at over                   2025, leading up to his full-length
             20,000 views on YouTube                            album, slated for release in 2026




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