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Vortex by Stige

January 17, 2023 By Cory Balon

vortex-stige“Secondo demo per questi Stige, death/thrash band da Taranto. Il quintetto ha finalmente assestato la sua line-up dove svariati cambi. . .  Infatti le quattro tracce presenti in questo ‘Vortex’, sono sì furiose e violente, ma peccano pesantemente sul versante originalità. Gli Stige si rifanno palesemente alla scena americana, sia nel riffing serrato che nei solos sparati a duemila all’ora ( come gli Slayer insegnano ). Dentro di loro serpeggia anche una vena hardcore, decantata a pieni polmoni dal singer Gianfranco Liuzzi, il quale modula la propria voce su uno screaming acidulo e tiratissimo per quasi tutta la durata delle canzoni; ogni tanto Liuzzi tira fuori degli acuti Halfordiani, tecnicamente validi, ma che cozzano con il suo cantare ” classico “. Durante l’ascolto dei brani emerge anche una discreta cura nell’inserire linee altamente melodiche, questo grazie ai due chitarristi, Marcello Bruno ed Emanuele Giummarra, particolare che conferisce un pizzico di ariosità a canzoni comunque potenti e quadrate.”    –Andrea Pizzini, metal.it

The 2005 demo Vortex by Italian band Stige uses the illustration Styx-Philippo Argenti by illustrator Gustave Doré.

Find the album here.

Find the illustration here.

Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa. 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2006, Album Art, Albums, Canto 8, Gustave Doré, Illustrations, Italian Bands, Italy, Metal, River Styx, Styx, Tuscany

Beauty Awakens the Soul to Act (2017 album)

November 24, 2022 By Sebastian Spadavecchio

How The World Became The Bomb—a post-rock musician from Palermo, Italy—released an album in 2017 titled Beauty Awakens the Soul to Act. The title refers to the verse “tosto che dal piacere in atto è desto” (Purgatorio 18.21).

Listen to the album on Bandcamp (retrieved on October 24, 2022).

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2017, Albums, Beauty Awakens the Soul to Act, Italy, Palermo, Post-Rock, Purgatorio, Rock Music

Purgatorio Album, Metamorfosi (2016)

January 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

metamorfosi_purgatorio_album_cover

Italian progressive rock band Metamorfosi released their album Purgatorio on October 14, 2016. The album’s tracklist features several references to the second half of Dante’s Divine Comedy including “Paradiso Terrestre”, “Porta del Purgatorio”, and “Beatrice”. The band previously released albums titled Inferno and Paradiso (see our post on those works here).

 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2016, Albums, Italian Bands, Italy, Progressive Rock, Purgatorio

La vita nuova EP, Christine and the Queens (2020)

January 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

la_vita_nuova_christine_and_the_queens_album_coverFrench singer-songwriter Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier (AKA Christine and the Queens) released their electropop EP La vita nuova on February 27, 2020. The album’s title makes explicit reference to Dante’s text La vita nuova. The album was accompanied by a short film featuring Christine and her relationship with a mysterious figure known as “The Faun”.

Watch the short film and listen to the EP here.

Read a review of the EP, posted on Pitchfork, here.

Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2020, Albums, Electronic Music, Electropop, France, French Music, La vita nuova, Music, Short Films

Nurgul Jones, Upper & Lower Hell 어퍼와 로어 지옥 (2017 album)

December 30, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

c-w-scott-giles-illustration-circles-of-hell-black-and-white

In 2017, Toronto artist Nurgul Jones released the blackgaze album Upper and Lower Hell어퍼와 로어 지옥. Through soft, atmospheric industrial sounds, each track creates a dreamscape that might send the listener on a journey from “Circle 1: Limbo아지태” all the way to”Circle 9: The Traitorous배 교자.” A circle of Dante’s Inferno takes a titular spotlight on each one of the nine tracks.

Listen to and download the album on bandcamp here.

 

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2017, Albums, Ambient, Circles of Hell, Hell, Industrial Rock, Instrumental Music, Journeys, Metal, Music, Nine circles, Toronto, Upper Hell

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