S91

Michael Baryshnikov написал(а) к All в Oct 17 21:37:11 по местному времени:

Нello All!

Залит S91/(2016)Behold_TheMankind

Новое имя на сервере.
С91 - молодая итальянская кристиан-прог-металлическиая группа (а на деле - "поп-металл-с-женским-вокалом").
Метальчик у них так себе, но мелодии завлекательные, играют хорошо, поют и того лучше (на английском). Несмотря на то, что темы песен у них "православные" и "остросоциальные", напряга в них нет.
Имеет смысл послушать, вы ничем не рискуете.

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S91 was born in 2006 from the meeting of the bass player Giacomo MANFREDI and the guitarist Alessandro BAGGIANI at Montecarlo (Lucca's Country). They decided to create a band playing rock music with a Christian message. Afterwards the two singers Tania PETRONE and Sefora BONACCORSI joined in the band, and then Francesco LONDINO (keyboards) and Maria LONDINO (as third singer).

The band worked for some years writing songs, and then in 2009 the lineup was completed with the new guitar player Francesco ROMEGGINI. That year they released the first Ep called Sto Per Tornare, followed by a number of live gigs. The music style moved into progressive metal-psychedelic rock. In 2010, the founding member and guitar player Alessandro BAGGIANI left the band. One year later, on 15 July 2011 the first full-length album was released: Volonta Legata. The album was more metal then the debut, with long and complex songwriting.

(c) Bio provided by the band, edited by Bonnek, PA
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(c) Review by b_olariu, PA

S91 from Italy was a nice discovery for me somewhere in summer last year while searching for some new bands to discover from bandcamp page. These italians really made an more then ok 2 albums so far. This is their second offer issued in 2016 named Behold the mankind. So, what about the music, to my ears it sounds like a metalized version of italian symphonic prog, definetly more on prog metal side but symphonic passages are present aswell, similarities with another great italian prog band VIII Strada, The new pieces are really inspired and complicated songwriting in many parts, very nice duelings between guitars and keyboards, strong female voice of Maria Londino.. The band has an invited male vocalist Christian Liljegren (from Narnia, Flagship fame among others)integrated very well in this type of sound. Very solid musicianship, sprecially I like a lot the keyboards, pieces like Slaves And Kings, and The Son Of God . A band that gone under the radar in prog metal circles, this is a fairly good release that must be praised little more, S91 has plenty of talent to go further and crating some even better albums. Since then to me is a 3 star rounded to 3.5 stars album, nice art work, album available on italian label Undergound symphony. A nice one, gone unnoticed by prog metal listners.
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Enjoy!
WBR, Michael Baryshnikov.

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