Oratorio
Redemption

Throughout the centuries, the Church has always played a leading role in history; it has managed to change its course several times, it has always stuck its nose a bit everywhere, and even into pop music; and fortunately, that time it worked out well, as it encouraged its spread
and success. But let's get into the details...
It's also thanks to the Second Vatican Council (1962/1965) that today we can talk about Trip-Hop, GNU-Metal, Noise, and Grindcore, and have debaser with its wonderful reviews (including this one) and its human and beastly cases.

Inspired and convened by John XXIII, with the aim of profoundly renewing the Church in the face of the advance of modern times, the Council promulgated four Constitutions, three Declarations, and nine Decrees that effectively changed the millennial Roman liturgy to present itself in a more direct and effective manner to the faithful.

A significant effort was dedicated to the "ggiovani" future paladins to evangelize and crusade; for the little ones, it was finally understood that to bring them closer, all it took was Soccer; a small field and a ball have an attraction power for a child that not even 10 Jesus Christs together could have.
For those who didn't like to bash their knees playing, they could always fiddle with foosball tables and ping-pong, with which all the Omnibus parish halls were supplied; and up to here, we can say it was a success, as the only dead point of the day for a little boy at the oratory, which was that hour of catechism or holy mass, were quite bearable.

If with the young ones the focus was on the playful effect, to seduce the older ones required something else. The usual priests who might lack charity but not wit, riding that phenomenon called beat, met the new youthful desire to make music, and never was a choice more fortunate.
The Church gave them the opportunity to play, create music, and even perform in front of a
audience in a Sunday live.
Thus, the concept of sacred music played within the parish walls was revolutionized, favoring the birth of the "Messa beat".

Most of those old owl bachelors who played (proto-depressive) the organ were replaced by bands of young men who, with modern musical instruments, made even the little old grannies in the back row clap their hands and butts.
In this way, pop music definitively took root thanks to the enormous parish media opportunity. A genuine revolution second only perhaps to Punk!

From that moment, if the mass was "beat," a sell-out was certain. And it was an apotheosis! Crowds of faithful lined up to hear "Resta con noi Signore la sera," "Come spighe nei campi," "Osanna Ah! Osanna OH," "Prendi questa offerta" (especially the latter, particularly dear to the priests who encouraged an encore for obvious reasons), and many other hits that were and still are replicated every Sunday with unchanged critical and public acclaim.
 
Over the years, the original calm and Christian-Democratic beat-sound underwent natural stylistic evolutions, embracing other genres until reaching unimaginable sonic extremes.
This is the case of the ORATORIO, with a name that reveals their past as altar servers but who play an incredibly improbable METAL that makes the papal caps stand on end.

Coming from Finland, they are descended from those Goths who a few hundred years ago converted to Christianity thanks to the commendable work of missionaries who, in their eternal wandering and dodging Norman bludgeoning (more grueling than Messner...), brought the word to these extreme misty, cold, and pagan lands.
As part of that particular movement called Christian Metal, Oratorio offers us a canonical Metal, classic, with interesting quality insights. Their peculiarity, indeed their originality, rests on the lyrics, which are veritable praises to the Almighty, in total opposition to that part of Metal (Black and Death) that, using a euphemism, wraps artichokes with sacred lyrics.

Their latest sermon, dated 2006, published by the Pauline Editions Lapland - REDEMPTION, shows us a Metal band of great respect with all the necessary attributes! Citing some titles such as: Burning - Brothers - Whispers In The Night - Come In To My Heart, we can glimpse the "good feeling" spirit, but forget that this could influence the technical part by softening it because riffs, solos, vocal intensity, and the entire sonic impact are as powerful and metal as you could find out there.

Oratorio confirms for us, if there were still any doubt the adaptability, the versatility, the multifunctionality of that wonderful genre that is Metal; seemingly monolithic but actually so versatile as to be appreciated across all sectors. A genre for every age, class, heterosexual or homosexual tastes, for laypeople and now also for the teodem.

Of course, the times are not yet ripe and the Christian Metal, being an extreme genre, continues to struggle underground in the crypts, maintaining its underground status, but we are confident that an upcoming Council will earn it the ranks of sacristy stardom, and even the faithful will have their deserved daily bread and mosh.

STAY POWER BUT ALSO STAY ORA PRO NOBIS.