" was winter," say the Orme. Italy came out in stores across the second working Metamorphosis.
I do not know what they expect fans of the former " Fragments" after a debut so focused on music beat-Catholic but certainly not an album that was released on 30 gennaio1973.
In fact, back in the wonderful cover of "Gamma Film" by Roberto Gavioli (that of "Mammoth, Babbut and Fliut,", "Cimabue" and "Firefighter Council") is sensed that something had changed: no more hellish scenarios biblical figures but not the brightest set on the songs of joy live and to believe, but dark tales of Hell features Dante.
The the band line up had changed: the guitarist Luciano Tamburro had gone without being replaced more and, in the rhythm section, drummer Mario Natali had given way all'inquieto Congolese Gianluca Herygers ( Bravo, but insane, "Jimmy told me personally ).
The Metamorphosis were then seated in the quartet but, while keeping intact the 3 / 4 of the old formation, had completely revolutionized both their image is, as we shall see, their sound.
Inferno is actually a concept album in total thickness Prog. A volcanic suite of 16 short movements in which the protagonists are put to the index of the ills of society ( drug dealers, greedy, racist, political etc.), updating the model proposed in Divine Comedy of Dante .
The spirituality of the group moves from the primitive magnification of a Faith otherworldly to the concrete complaint of those subjects that are corroding the civilized world , demonstrating not only a supervening maturity artistic and intellectual, but also the assumption of a common consciousness perfectly in step with the times .
The same sound of the disc has nothing to " It was the sixth day .
still peppered with quotations from mystical "Inferno" is a granite gait between different themed scenarios, all perfectly cohesive warp by a solid and varied musical and supported by a voice of rare power and incisiveness. Each of the episodes that make up the album has its own well-defined personality and engages those adjacent forming a lineup of extraordinary beauty.
keyboards Enrico Olivieri (Sintex custom Elka, Hammond C3 and Plan ) are the harmonizing element of a groove that alternates expertly majestic songs ("I ntroduction ", "Charon ") to dark and gothic atmospheres (" Violent " drug dealer"), reaching peaks at times of immense passion (" Lussurios i).
The narrative tension and bending is not known, returns a Prog Rock , in many ways aligned with the more famous colleagues d'oltremanica.
La possente voce di Spitaleri raggiunge qui uno dei suoi tanti vertici interpretativi e la sezione ritmica Turbitosi - Herygers da quanto di meglio si potesse chiedere ad un'opera di questa caratura.
Anche se inficiato da un leggero pietismo poetico (che comunque era nella perfetta norma per quei tempi quale eredità dell' Underground ) , " Inferno " è da considerarsi un monolite del Prog Italiano per classe compositiva, strumentale e tecnica.
Capolavoro nel suo genere, and highly sought after by collectors around the world (so as to have been one of the world's most counterfeited album) , the disc also had a moderate commercial success by selling, they say, about 10,000 copies. Defects? Yes there are, but certainly not attributable to the technical abilities of the group.
As happened to many smaller formations that dealt with themes of " epic" and "mystical " Metamorphosis also were accused of taking a little 'too seriously "with respect to their visibility and for this , appeared to many " opinionated" and "excessive ".
In this sense, the numerous appearances in various Pop Festival, though enriched by scenic never found trivial and a great theatrical impact, failed to translate the quality of their work in terms of commercial survival and this may , partly because of strong competition from which inevitably were crushed.
Scioltisi shortly after the publication of Inferno, the metamorphosis will reform in the 90s to create the sequel to their masterpiece, "Paradise " again with new ideas and always surprising the audience with their great heart Rock.
METAMORPHOSIS - Discography 1972 - 1975:
1972: AND WAS THE SIXTH DAY
1973: HELL
2004: HEAVEN
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