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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

Purgatorio Album, Metamorfosi (2016)

January 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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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).

 

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

Inferno I Album, Kyterion (2016)

November 29, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

inferno-i-kyterion-album-coverItalian death metal band Kyterion released their album titled Inferno I on July 22, 2016. The track titles and songs make frequent reference to the text of the Divine Comedy including “La selva de’ suicidi”, “Limbo”, and “L’etterno dolore”. This album will be discussed by scholar Francesco Ciabattoni in his contribution to the forthcoming volume Dante Alive.

The Metal Archives User “Samtropy” has this to say about the album:

“This is the first of trilogy Black/Death metal interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy by a band of anonymous Italians.

“As a concept, it’s pretty interesting: turning Dante’s words (in their original Florentine vernacular) into relentless song-sized chunks furious blackened death metal. If you’re short on time, the takeaway is: listen to this if that idea sounds good to you. Don’t if it doesn’t.” [. . .]     –User “Samtropy”, The Metal Archives, June 8th, 2020 (retrieved November 29, 2021)

The full text of this archival review is available here.

A music video for one of the songs (“Gerione”), as well as other videos from the band, can be found here.

See our post about another metal adaptation of the Inferno here.

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Tagged with: 2016, Albums, Bands, Death Metal, Inferno, Italian Bands, Italy, Limbo, Metal, Music

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