Continuo Renacer
The Great Escape

THE REVIEW

Iberians, with a passion for the seventies and an unconditional love for Spiral Architect; deriving from brutal-Death with a jazz-fusion touch.

Active since 1994, they debuted in 2005 with a self-titled album, which I find spectacular, inside which Continuo blended various genres to obtain a product of fine craftsmanship characterized by Death metal riffing, a bass in perfect Spiral Architect style, and psychotic drumming that unexpectedly plunged into dark pits of brutal-Death tones; all of this seasoned with noble soloing and keyboard inserts.

Back then online, some had, of course, pointed out that the weak point of that record was the incomplete fusion of genres within it; indeed it was.

The brutal parts were too detached from the fusion-metal style context; I liked it, but I understand the disturbance of others, because in those precise moments disruptions were created that put the listener's continuity at risk.

In 2011, however, Continuo Renacer returned to the public with the second chapter of themselves titled "The Great Escape."

Perfect!

The influences have blended perfectly into a sonic magma that takes integrity as its principle and end.

Of the fusion, only the concept remains, the bass, always highlighted, is even more precise; it doesn’t run but dances, together with the guitar that in rhythm phase always smells of Death metal and in solo phase is exceedingly refined, and along with the drums that, always nervous but now stable, produces a tapestry of rare beauty.

Five tracks, all strictly instrumental, and a perfect recording.

Kudos to the newly born "The Newborn" which with its fifteen minutes is not boring at all, carrying on a discourse that could go on indefinitely.

Keyboards and various solos evoke Deep Purple’s attention like no one else could.

An intimate vein (throughout the album) marks the circulation.

The Great Escape has happened!