The Bastard Sons Of Dioniso
Per non fermarsi mai

Here is a work to be proud of. "Per non fermarsi mai" not only serves as the title of the new album but also represents the hope for the future of TBSOD, who have escaped the suffocating "Stasi perpetua" of the Sony experience, a continuation of a path that began quite well but was hindered by some constraints which the Valsugana trio has overcome here with cold blood.

A sharper vein of lyrics emerges, and at the same time, bold irregular tempos are introduced, reverse synthesizers, solos with vague prog reminiscences, instrumental and harmonic introspections that take their due breath: you can perceive that this album is as it was conceived, making it a pleasure to listen to as well.

The extracted single "Rumore Nero" is a kind of "metasong" that alerts us to the album's content: "Noise is never enough, I apologize to your ears, but what apologies, it's too late by now. Outside of me, noise shines. Anger and poetry, let it be noise."

The providential inspirational seventies style emerges, congested by a vast legacy of other experiences - from grunge (commendable inspiration from the Foo Fighters, also revealed by the amusing title "Quello che foo") to sporadic solutions that glance at metal. Fresh, varied, decisive rock, yet always traceable back to a basic structure that allows it to be played even acoustically, as the Bastards themselves have recently demonstrated. The trademark style of the distinguished company is always recognizable, the much-loved and never trite resolutions in major chords that highlight the third degree - almost overcoming the well-known hard rock stereotyped by the succession of power chords - combined with the unmistakable punk-like voice of Vicentini and attention to those abundant and never predictable choirs for which they are well known (but here refined and polished in a delightful way). Technically flawless, the Trentino trio pours into a series of twelve well-thought-out tracks even from an instrumental perspective (a nervous and thunderous drum, a penetrating and incisive bass, one that is building a peculiar style of its own.

With good reason, therefore, this album was awarded on February 18, 2012, by the Associazione Fonografici Italiani as the best Italian indie album of 2011. Noteworthy, both in terms of composition and performance, it can satisfy many ears, precisely because of its nature as "transversal" rock, which claims the peculiarities of various styles and mixes them with admirable ease.