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sean

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Topic: Vurtula: Italian Prog Metal!!!
Posted: February 15 2008 at 17:52

Mandrakeroot wrote:

No, Vurtula published only a great demo CD!

For a demo they sound really good.

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Posted: February 15 2008 at 12:07

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You can definitely hear a neo-classical symphony x/malmsteen influence in them, due to the guitarist. I think Symphony X is the biggest influence here, and if you like them then you should like this band.
Infernal Fate starts off pretty slow with the keys in the foreground. I definitely like that aspect. This picks up shortly and they go into an instrumental section and then the vocals come in. I think the band would benefit from singing in their native Italian. I know that will turn off a lot of people with closed minds but sometimes the lyrics are incomprehensible because of the accent. I appreciate that he's trying to grasp another language and sympathize with the fact that learning a language is difficult, but Italian is really a beautiful language and lends itself well to music. Just a suggestion though.
This band is obviously rather talented, and there is a wide range of influences. I'd classify them as prog power metal. The songs are good, but they good use with a bit more experimentation, otherwise they just fall into the trap of sounding generic.
mandrakeroot, is their album commericially released? i saw they mentioned a record label on their page. if it is, then we could push to include them here, as i think they'd fit in with the prog metal artists like symphony x and dream theater.
I'm really liking the instrumental Geometrie non Euclidee. At first it seemed kind of like standard prog power metal but it definitely picked up after a while. I think this is due to the keys in the beginning being kind of bland but then they reach a piano breakdown and everything intensifies.

No, Vurtula published only a great demo CD!

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Posted: January 18 2008 at 12:50

Eh, eh... I am noticing that are published increasingly professional demos. And this is one of those!

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Posted: January 17 2008 at 15:52

Sean wrote:

i saw they mentioned a record label on their page.

Well spotted, Sean. Thumbs%20Up

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Posted: January 16 2008 at 22:37

I added them to the PMT chart,thanks Mandy.

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Posted: January 16 2008 at 16:34

You can definitely hear a neo-classical symphony x/malmsteen influence in them, due to the guitarist. I think Symphony X is the biggest influence here, and if you like them then you should like this band.
Infernal Fate starts off pretty slow with the keys in the foreground. I definitely like that aspect. This picks up shortly and they go into an instrumental section and then the vocals come in. I think the band would benefit from singing in their native Italian. I know that will turn off a lot of people with closed minds but sometimes the lyrics are incomprehensible because of the accent. I appreciate that he's trying to grasp another language and sympathize with the fact that learning a language is difficult, but Italian is really a beautiful language and lends itself well to music. Just a suggestion though.
This band is obviously rather talented, and there is a wide range of influences. I'd classify them as prog power metal. The songs are good, but they good use with a bit more experimentation, otherwise they just fall into the trap of sounding generic.
mandrakeroot, is their album commericially released? i saw they mentioned a record label on their page. if it is, then we could push to include them here, as i think they'd fit in with the prog metal artists like symphony x and dream theater.
I'm really liking the instrumental Geometrie non Euclidee. At first it seemed kind of like standard prog power metal but it definitely picked up after a while. I think this is due to the keys in the beginning being kind of bland but then they reach a piano breakdown and everything intensifies.

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Posted: January 14 2008 at 11:23

From: www.movimentiprog.net I translated this recension of VURTULA, an Italian Prog metal band:

Author: VURTULA
Album Title: Infernal Fate
Nationality: Italy
Label: Self
Year of publication: 2006

rating: 6/10

Reviewed by Daniel Cutali

The prog-metal from Piemonte...

The prog-metal ago proselytes throughout the world, but especially in Europe. The Italy is no exception and several bands are emule pillars of the genre as from the past with the Rush finally to the most recent sacred monsters like Dream Theater and Symphony X. These are groups extreme followed in the Old Continent in our country and their concerts are always sold-out. One of the many groups devoted to this kind of music that blends with the nuances prog metal sometimes extreme, but never loses sight of instrumental experimentation and melody, are Canavese Vurtula born in 2001 in the Ivrea, in the Turin's province.

The line-up of Vurtula is the classical training six of prog-metal. Under powerful and crystalline find an old acquaintance, that Max Clara that a great figure ago in Ainur energetic singing all parts of battle songs and inseparably intertwined with the other singers of the small orchestra venariese devoted to the world of Tolkien. The rest of the band is made up of musicians with several years of experience and militancy in other band behind. Ivan Calvo guitars and choirs, David Cormegna guitars, Marco Varda to synth and keyboards, Richard Gamba on bass and Simone Costa on drums.

Vurtula (word that in Piemontese dialect is the "didease induced by vertigo") recorded a mini-cd strictly self containing four songs. "Epochs," "Gothic", the song better and more varied disc, "Infernal Fate" also used in the soundtrack of the new film by young director Paul Kiri, and "A Strange Day", as can be seen is sung in Italian. Musically nothing new under the sun, as regards gender. Guitars hard synth solos that area with here and there, a powerful drumming, unrestrained, time changes and melodies. Vurtula are good musicians and feels, but would have had to work more on experimentation, in an important genre "closed" as the prog-metal. Instead unable to free itself from the model known, however, remain good performers and ideas for the songs are very good. The margin improvement is very broad capabilities are, Vurtula there but they do need to demonstrate more courage.

For more details:
http://www.vurtula.com - official website of the band
http://www.myspace.com/vurtula - Area band on MySpace

For further information:
[email protected] - E-mail for contacts

Edited by Mandrakeroot - January 14 2008 at 11:24