Inchiuvatu
Miseria

Agghiastru is a great talent. First, he shocks us all with the quirky folk of his solo debut CD ‘Incantu’, and then, within a few months, he releases a double album of Inchiuvatu and a CD Compilation of his Mediterranean scene, with all-new songs.

Now... finding reviews of ‘Miseria’, the title of the fourth work by Inch, is almost impossible to pay for, and this is because the Sicilian folks have deliberately ignored all media outlets, both print and online, supported by a solid fan base, who, by following their websites regularly, don't need further information. I myself was amazed to find a CD with a blood-oozing trinacria printed on it on a shelf in a store. The album is a double, recorded at two different times. The first in 2007 and the other in 2008. The sound is the best ever, and the songs flow one after another with a fluidity never achieved before.

Musically speaking, it's the "usual" Sicilian-style black/death, full of fast rhythms, stop 'n go and macabre tarantellas. Spine-chilling atmospheres that evoke the dark theaters of a Sicily lost in Agghiastru's memory, and that inevitably come to us in the form of pure musical art. Some noteworthy tracks include the suite "Maravigghia", with prog influences dear to the other Mediterranean scene project ‘La Caruta di li Dei’, and also "Schiuvatu", which picks up from the last riff of the song "Inchiuvatu" contained in the mythical "Addisiu". Indeed, the peculiarity of this new work lies in finding in some songs the continuation of some old glories... as if wanting to close the circle. This is also the case with "Impura - Ave Matri part III" or "Nenia II". Instead, amusing and borderline plagiarism of Deicide, (in fact, it reminds me here of another Mediterranean death project, Astimi), always in the second album, "Pecura Niura", a critique of metalheads who, as much as they feel alternative, ultimately are part of a more than homologizing system, like extreme metal. Beautiful and raw is the ‘love song’ "Avia". The sick piano that sounds like a music box and many falsetto or female voices, I'm not sure, reciting nightmare lullabies.

The last thing is that the discs were played and produced, as is now customary in the Mediterranean scene, by Agghiastru and Rosario Badalamenti.