| VENTURIA "Hybrid" |
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| Written by Béa | |||
| Thursday, 25 September 2008 03:12 | |||
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Lion Music
Two years after “The New Kingdom”, the progressive metal group Venturia comes back with “Hybrid”. If the first album was excellent, this one is also excellent. The work in composition is huge with a mix of musical influences coming from metal, progressive, pop, classic and electronic music. To this is adding from Charly Sahona, a technique side especially in the soli maybe a little more pronounced than on « The New Kingdom ». if the vocalist Marc Ferreira had, in the first album, most of the vocals lines, this second album is much more balance on the vocals level. Lydie Robin and Marc Ferreira are better sharing the vocals and we even have a track «Why ? This Women’s Life » where Lydie is alone on the vocals line, but besides who better than a woman could sing these lyrics ??? The voices are completing pretty well, on one side a powerful voice with sometimes an aggressive side but still melodic, which still makes me thing to Darren hayes from Savage Garden, and on the other side a more sensual voice, more delicate. The songs are mixing with coherence the different styles and the different influences of the group like for example the track « Sparkling Rain » with keyboards which give superb melodies but we find keyboards parts on a certain number of tracks under the form of properly speaking keyboards or piano like in « Why ? This Women’s Life ». Charly Sahona’s guitars parts are excellent, much worked especially on the soli’s level which if the technique side is sometimes very present, the melody is still well present and there aren’t any technique « display » which could become boring. If the lyrics are in English we can find some lyrics in French in « Running Blind ». The album is balanced because it has fast, technique, powerful and heavy tracks and others more mid tempos but not less powerful. The last track « Sublimated Dementia » has long and beautiful instrumental passages, it is the longtest track, the most progressive one and very certainly the most successfull one for me.
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