TO A SKYLARK „„To a Skylark””

Music: Alternative Death Doom Metal
Website: www.myspace.com/toaskylark
Duration: 44:37 minutes (8 tracks)
Country: Italy

The band came into being in 2003 year inspired by the poem “This and skylark” of Percy Bysshe Shelley. However nor music, nor the cover-art didn't announce something light. Despite all, the originally released digipack suggested that disc will contain the interesting music. The elephant from the cover-art showed for something heavy and slow (with impulses of anger). And the deers showed for somethnig more transient.

… It started… The heavy, monumental riffs of guitars, the powerful percussive rhythms and the very predatory, multicoloured growl introduced the mood of Doom-Death Metal replete by the elements of Hardcore, Sludge, Stoner Metal additionally. Despite the slow and average rhythms, this powerful and monstrous music crushes totally (not only thanks to the heaviness of sound, the aggression or the hysteria of vocal but and by the dark, melancholy, lightly psychedelic climate). And especially the romantic, gentle, clean vocals (in style of Dan Swano EDGE OF SANITY) as well as the clean guitar parties and the gentle sounds of keyboards make the larger depth of climate.

The whole is very powerful, sometimes very melodious and spatial, outright colossal, monolithic, sometimes crushes strongly but and it also is able to quiet or to stir up hysterical aggression.

I did not hear so excellent Doom Death Metal long ago.

note: 9.5/10

Tracklist

1 Seraphic Feathers
2 Icarus' Redemption
3 Hic Et Nunc
4 At Dusk, By Lake Walden
5 Aftermath 5:50
6 Fading Process: Charmed by Mermaids
7 Fading Process: The Lotuseater
8 Fading Process: Abandon

Line-up

Filippo Ranghiero: Bass
Stefano Santagiuliana: Drums
Riccardo Morgante: Guitars
Marco Ziggiotti: Guitars
Matteo Gaiarsa dalla Valle: Keyboards
Alessandro Tosatto: Vocals