Novembre
Wish I Could Dream It Again

THE REVIEW

A beach, a boat, the southern seas... it's the image of this album whose first track features (sung in English):

"Running down the splendid channel
that flows carefree
down to the sea mirror
of an ionic water line

There was a fresh breeze
A strange peace
Tranquility
and there was the Sun

It was even able to warm me
No longer an enemy
Images passed before me
like a stream of photographs
chasing each other to create a sweet carousel

Then, the might of a boat
The art in its decline
Its baroque trappings
Its gone inlays

Its arcane ornaments
Its solitary gaze
Its ancient memories
Its lost wars

Splendid
As Venice never was
as the Moon cannot be
as only the sea is

It was a dream, just a dream
Because only in a dream there is a fresh breeze
and the Sun can warm me
I would like to dream it again"

Here is the first album by the Romans Novembre dated as far back as 1994, a combination of melancholic and dreamy lyrics, aggressive and decadent music, recorded at the legendary Unisound Studio by the equally legendary Dan Swano. Nothing is missing: clean vocals, growl vocals, scream vocals, Swedish-style saturated guitars (early '90s), never gaudy solos, acoustic guitar textures intertwining with modest keyboards, all supported by technically terrifying drumming.

The genre proposed by our band in their first opus is almost undefinable, given the enormous originality of their work... it transitions from <black metal to dark-wave, to> combining furious parts with others more touching and depressed.

It is impossible to point out specific tracks among the 13 present here because each has its own story. Certainly, one of the best Italian releases in the metal field of the early nineties.