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Rating: REVIEW NOVEMBER ART NOCEVENTO
A square wrapped in the mist of a cold winter morning... everything is soft, undefined. People appear as tiny black dots moving bewildered towards unknown directions. In the foreground, a terrace on whose railing a black bird stands, seemingly observing the landscape, making the scene sad, melancholic, but at the same time dreamlike...
When the artwork appropriately expresses the album's content, conveying the sensations evoked by the tracks even before listening begins.
Arte November is the second album by Novembre, a Roman band founded by the Catanese brothers Giuseppe and Carmelo Orlando that needs no introduction, having been considered for years one of the main national realities in the metal scene. Recorded and Mixed by Swedish “guru” Dan Swano in Scandinavia in February 1996 and remixed in Rome by Fabio Vignati, Arte November can be considered the key work on which the group's personal genre rests, the starting point for the construction of its vast discography.
The previous "wish i could dream it again," although not lacking in some flashes of originality, suffered from a recording quality that was exceedingly poor, the still immature voice of the frontman, and a musical proposal too anchored on the standards of Swedish prog-death bands (particularly Opeth)
With this work, the complex delivers a mix of different influences, a sound reworked and personalized that does not easily fit labels like metal, rock, gothic, etc.
The proposed genre cannot be classified as simple metal or rock, as the Orlando brothers blend new wave, classical music, 80s pop, progressive, thrash metal defining extremely heterogeneous pieces both in duration and complexity where the listener is captured, clinging, totally immersed in a state of catharsis. The winter atmosphere permeates every single track, where vocalist Carmelo Orlando chooses a clean vocal register, free of scream and growl, with a melodic and dreamy tone (considered at times excessively nasal), capable of conveying feelings of anger, resignation, melancholy…
Music with a strong emotional content without a predefined target...
highly recommended.
rating 8/10
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I risk falling into an emotional tunnel with no way out... But this is the only true solution, the exorcism of my inner negativity.
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By jecko666
Even the most arid and hard heart cannot help but melt upon hearing the echo of the first notes.
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