Band : Cappanera
Album title : Cuore Blues Rock'N'Roll
Label : Jolly Roger Records
Distributor : Displeased
Release date : 03/06/2011
Release : CD

Now what on earth do I get to write about now? Cappanera. Thanks to an extremely helpful Italian dictionary, I got to know that it should mean something like 'black cape', though I'm not too certain of that. Fortunately, in music, it's not always really necessary to know what something means, since Cappanera is quite a new Italian band releasing their third album, which is entitled Cuore Blues Rock'N'Roll. As soon as I laid my eyes on the nationality of Cappanera, I was quite in doubt (read: shock), since Italy doesn't really tend to be the top notch country when it comes to good heavy guitar music (Rhapsody of Fire and Lacuna Coil being the main exceptions to that rule). Fortunately, with Cuore Blues Rock'N'Roll, Cappanera show quite the effort to do away with this fixed cliché.
On Cuore Blues Rock'N'Roll, we are treated to some fine hardrock leaning towards nice notes of the blues genre, which does nothing but honour to the album's title. However the decent music, what's mostly so disappointing about Italian bands, is the fact that they don't seem to succeed in getting away  from using their mother tongue when writing lyrics. In order to appreciate this album, you need to be really open-minded (or Italian of course). Fortunately, as open-minded as we are, for Cuore Blues Rock'N'Roll, it's quite easy to overcome this feeling. The eleven songs on this album show quite a lot of variation, mostly because of the few singing and the beautiful guitar work put to the foreground. Especially Solo Mai is an impressive song which might just as well have been composed by a successful American band such as Bon Jovi.
Dear appreciators of the metal kind, don't let the modest cover of this album deceive you, for I promise you, with Cuore Blues Rock'N'Roll, Cappanera have created an enjoyable piece of music of the metal/blues kind).

71/100

Tim