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IL ROVESCIO DELLA MEDAGLIA's first album is very much a Hard Rock album.This is rough, raw and dated. I usually like these albums but this one really felt uninspired, I had a hard time getting into it at all.

"Il Nulla" opens with strange and spacey sounds that come and go for 3 minutes.The guitar then makes some noise then a haunting calm arrives to end it. "La Creazione" is raw and fairly aggressive with vocals. Some vocal melodies before 4 1/2 minutes. It blends into "L'Ammonimento". Vocals a minute in followed by vocal melodies. It settles then the guitar comes in and start to build to a solo. Vocals are back 4 minutes in followed by more vocal melodies.

"Sodoma E Gomorra" or "Club Med" as Elton John calls it, opens with drums, a guitar solo follows as they continue to trade off. It then kicks into an uptempo melody. Nice bass here. "Il Giudizio" opens with drums as the sound builds. Vocals and a fuller sound 2 1/2 minutes in. Guitar returns after 6 minutes with bass and drums in tow. Vocals 7 minutes in. "Il Diluvio" sounds like the end of the world is upon us. Powerful sounds that vibrate the whole soundscape.

Sadly I can't even give this 3 stars.