Djunah draped in a flowing red veil and red fabric stands with arms outstretched against a black background, with white smoke behind her.

Music

Giallo (2026)

Cover of Djunah's album Giallo, featuring Donna Diane in a long red veil and black gloves with smoke billowing in the background

Djunah's newest album, Giallo, draws on the psychological world of Italian horror film to tell the story of complex trauma. Inspired by the heightened color and emotion of gialli, the mixing of beauty and brutality, desire and terror, and the unsettling feeling that no one can be trusted, the record is structured as a series of emotional movements through rage, vengeance, intimacy, hopelessness, triumph, and terror toward reclamation of a fragmented self that shattered to survive.

As Djunah's first solo album, Giallo expands the sonic range of Donna Diane's work while retaining her core sound: blistering guitars, punishing drums, and eviscerating vocals. Featuring a live horn section and layers of analog synthesizer, the album mixes genres freely, careening from lounge, big band, and torch singing into liturgical music, noise, and metal, culminating in an ecstatic wall-of-sound Tina Turner breakdown.

The album's cover art is inspired by the 1972 giallo "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times."

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Femina Furens (2023)

Cover of Djunah's album Femina Furens, with Donna Diane in purple light, wearing a breastplate, in front of a red sci-fi background

Djunah's second album, Femina Furens, is a visceral exploration of rage and healing. Lyrical and raw, the record fuses influences from formal poetry (John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sylvia Plath) and heavy music.

The album, whose title is Latin for "furious woman," is a reflection on diagnosis and continuing recovery with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). Animals, chariots/sleighs, and mythological figures appear prominently on the album as a way of exploring themes of emotional regulation, power, and control — some of the core features of trauma disorders.

Named one of the best metal records of 2023 by Bandcamp Daily, the album features artwork inspired by representations of the divine feminine in 1970s sci-fi metal art, particularly the work of French artist Philippe Caza for “Métal hurlant” (later republished in the United States as Heavy Metal magazine).

Ex Voto (2019)

Front cover of the album Ex Voto by Djunah, with Donna Diane in a nun habit with a red cross on the front

Djunah's first album, Ex Voto was released in 2019. CVLT Nation called it "an angular Noise Rock escalator run on power and beauty." New Noise declared it "an instant classic, like we’ve got a new Melvins on our hands."