Treviso, Italy; The birthplace of so many interesting progressive rockbands. Once again we have been blessed with new offspring from this area. Helreidh, the youngest child, just released their debut album Memoires on the Underground Symphony label. Looking at the CD, the album's stunning packaging immediately grasped my attention. The hard-bordered digipack has a beautiful glossy painting on it's cover. No money has been spared on the inside either. The full colour booklet is packed with interesting drawings. But enough about the visible presentation. What really counts is the music! Bombastic, emotional, powerful, atmospheric. Just a few words that spring to my mind whilst listening to the album. It has that very typical Italian sound which in no small part has to do with the emotional voice of Franco Violo, who also happened to play with Asgard some time ago. The music has references to Asgard (Imago Mundi) and Dream Theater. Someone who listened to the album when I played it to him even described it as 'Black Jester with a good vocalist'. Incidentally the drummer used to play with the aforementioned mentioned band. Though the album is relatively heavy, there are many peaceful moments to balance the power and complexity displayed in other ones. In one of the tracks the band even plays an adapted version of Edward Grieg's Peergynt Suite. A very good album with both complexity and emotion. Review by "Martijn" (www.dprp.net).
RATING: 8 / 10
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RATING: 8 / 10
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