Crash & Burn - 2010
Symphonic Black Metal
1 to 10: Remarkable (7)
article: Michele Marinel
remarkable second album by this ensemble all Italian black metal. Starting from the pack, with a really beautiful artwork, a concept not going to assume (despite appearances to the contrary it may seem) and ending with the content and substance of a record that while not revolutionary, usually by breathing from a lot time decay.
Since the theme of the album title is clear: we are talking about women who kill, killer, in fact. A concept that rattles off the bloody adventures of different women who influenced the history of crime. It ranges from Italy to the United States via France and New Zealand. Surprisingly, the Countess Bathory missing, perhaps to avoid falling into banality, although a chapter on the first serial killer in history would fit like a glove.
Musically the album is a summary of some symphonic black metal in the late '90s and early next decade. The sound is clean, precise execution, the songs rather than articulated. Surely the band refers to the big names like that. Some echo the grandiose orchestrations Dimmu Borgir recent album, reminiscent of the most ferocious passages instead of the Satyricon Nemesis Divina, the component theater and some bordered in black in the mix instead of heavy and thrash peep Cradle Of Filth the middle period. Echoes, mind you, not plagiarism, because the band moves to coordinate its own anyway, even if owed to the tradition of the genre.
Certainly not an album that upsets a scene but, as I said at the opening, a record that can be appreciated, that flows effortlessly despite the length and complexity of the songs, and shows that we can still say something interesting a scene like that of the symphonic black. Not recently.
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