| CD REVIEW Resurrecturis |
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Band: Resurrecturis Resurrecturis are an Italian project by guitar player/ lyricist and music writer Carlo Strappa, formerly known from Meltdown (the Italian one, of course) and Allegra Combricca (rip), who recorded this album with Janos Murri (v, g), Alessandro Vagnoni (d) and Manuel Coccia (b), as well as many guest musicians, at Acme Recording Studio. The album Non Voglio Morire, with a total running time of fifty minutes, comes with a bonus-DVD (the video clip for “The Fracture” [+ the making of], as well as a photo gallery and some live material from the 2006-Fuck The Commerce edition), and originally the release was foreseen for 2009. Non Voglio Morire resulted in a pretty varying collection of Thrash songs. Sometimes it is filled with predictable clichés, and sometimes you get blown away by a rather original approach. The only thing that bothers me in this case is the lack of identity. I don’t know how to ‘label’ this album – in case I would like to fix it to one genre or another. Anyway, opening track “The Origin”, for example, is a short yet fast, aggressive and brutal piece with a Death Metal-edge; second song, “Prologue”, is a short melodic instrumental track that is the ideal prologue, indeed, to “Fuck Face”, which is an energetic and groovy aggressive hymn too, like the opening track, with a certain deadly approach, yet with more tempo-changes. And this aggressive, slightly deadened and old schooled approach seems to be the main theme. These main part, the mostly intense Thrash-songs, do vary in tempo -some are lightning fast, others contain many slow parts- and do vary in approach too: dark, straight-ahead, avant-garde, speedy, modern versus nineties, and so on… The first part of the album brings Thrash with a mainly Death Metal-injected sound and attitude; the second gets closer to Heavy Metal-influenced Thrash with a touch of melancholy. The first half is more old styled, the second one sounds more modern. However, as mentioned before, the album includes ‘differing’ tracks too. The Artist, for example, is a melodic song with electronic and progressive elements, including female vocals and acoustics. Calling Our Names is a neo-romantic song with lots of melody-changes, some obvious Metallica-riffs, female voices and acoustic guitars, fine guitar solos and a dreamy atmosphere, and the end of the track touches the world of Gothic/ Doom/ Death Metal. And what to think about finishing melancho-Pop/ Rock song “In Retrospective”, recorded live?... 80/100 Ivan Tibos. |
