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Rating: Months ago, I talked to you about the debut of the Genoese Malombra: an Italian neo-prog band characterized by dark and doom-seventies nuances.
The self-titled debut, just to refresh your memory, assembled the unforgettable sound of our very own Biglietto Per L'Inferno, Jacula, and Goblin with more vigorous Sabbathian guitar work.
The second chapter from the Genoese, published in 1996 by Black Widow Records, exaggerated the psychedelic and visionary approach characteristic of Mercy and company. "Our Lady of The Bones," in fact, can be considered the creative pinnacle of the formation coming from the land of good Faber.
After years of silence and (spiritual?) retreat, Malombra produced a third and unconvincing work.
The year was 2002 and the music had definitely changed: less fairy-tale texts and points of reference increasingly distant from the "seventies."
Sisters of Mercy and Rammstein, indeed, seem to move behind the scenes of this album. To all this, incredibly but true, must be added a strong polemical vein and a preference for "conspiratorial" and "esoteric-traditionalist" themes. Denunciation of a world dominated by alleged Masonic domes, by the demon of money, sex, and possession. A world view, as well as political, that will find broader expression in the current projects of the singer Mercy (see Ianva).
Yet nostalgia hits us like a punch! Where have the sound tricks of yesteryear gone? Where are the parallel worlds, the witches, and the eerie butchers that seemed to come out of a Pupi Avati film? All vanished! Gone are the synths, the enchanting keyboards, and the flutes.
It is sometimes essential to evolve and imprint a new direction on one's music. But, I repeat, assembling metal guitars and/or industrial rock with baritonal singing reeks of déjà vu!
There is a certain epicness and a particular grit, I have to admit, but the tracks do not excite! There's almost nothing to be done!
After "Dissolution Age" (if you've read authors like Guénon, it won't be difficult to understand why this title!) the "Malombra" have not produced other albums.
Perhaps because this project, over time, had no more arrows in its quiver or maybe because the priorities of the members were elsewhere. But such questions should be directed to those who know.
Seek out, despite the difficulties, their first two works and disregard this third chapter without worry.
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