Vurtula: Italian Prog Metal!!!

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