Band formed in Bologna, Italy, in 2007 - pretty decent prog metal too.

From the band's official website:  http://www.insidevitriol.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.insidevitriol.com (where three full tracks of the six on their 2010 debut self-titled EP are streaming in a small web player whilst you browse the site)

"Some years ago, in the up-country of Sicily, where the hills are burnt by the sun,  Francesco Lombardo and Michele Panepinto decided to undertake a path of musical growth who would soon bring them to their first self-production. The result of this decision is the band Vitriol, which soon involved   Gianluca Pappalardo, Pierangelo Carvello and Alessandro Sanfilippo. These musicians has contributed, thanks to their professional influences, to enrich the style of the new band, inspired to a Progressive genre which is modern but has also a feeling for the musical experiences of the 70s historical bands.

The name of the project has inspired their first EP which is a concept album. Vitriol infact is the acronym of one of the most famous mottoes of Renaissance alchemy:  "Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultam Lapidem"  (Enter the bowels of the Earth and, through your purification, you will find the hidden stone). It is a metaphor representing the path of the Man inside his own Ego in order to finally find the philosophical Truth.
In the same way, the main character of the story, called Knowledge, quests for his beloved, Truth; he reaches to destination after a rash of pitfalls and after meeting some allegorical characters (such as  Faith and Madness) but he's also wrong-footed by the words of his beloved.
The double meaning of the term "Vitriol" (corrosive chemical element and acronym of the renaissance motto) can describe well the essence of the band, constantly hanging in the balance between its aggressive component and its introspective/reflective one.

The first work of the band, mixed by Francesco Lombardo and Michele Panepinto and mastered by Roberto Priori, is completed in july 2009 in Bologna, where in the meanwhile the members of the band have moved. Once the album is handed out it collects immediately a lot of good reviews by the main alternative/metal magazines in both paper and digital output: it is considered the best Demo of the month on the November issue of  Metal Maniac (one of the most important magazine in Italy) and gets   an average mark of 8/10 in almost all the most famous Italian and international webzines, such as UsaProgressiveMusic, TrueMetal, MetalWave, Eutk, MovaMuzique and many others.

At present, the band has been updating its own myspace and website and has been featuring on the main music channels of the web.
After a line-up change (Tommaso Semrov on guitars), the members of the band are getting to grips with new ideas for the next album which will be, as usual, the result of their blood and sweat."

 

 

 

 

 

Other links (not much to see or hear on them though):

 

http://www.myspace.com/insidevitriol" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/insidevitriol

http://www.reverbnation.com/vitriol" rel="nofollow - http://www.reverbnation.com/vitriol

http://www.melodicrevolution.com/profile/Vitriol" rel="nofollow - http://www.melodicrevolution.com/profile/Vitriol

 

 

And there we are...!