Vision Divine - Send Me An Angel
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| Genre | Power Metal |
Fabio Lione
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Vocals
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| Tracks | 10 |
Olaf Thorsen
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Guitar
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| Runningtime | 47 Min. |
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Guitar
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| Label | AFM Records |
Andrea "Tower" Torricini
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Bass
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| Release | 06 Feb. 2002 |
Mat Stancioiu
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Drums
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| Country | Italy |
Andrew Mc Pauls
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Keyboards
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| Similar artists | Labÿrinth | ||
The guys in Vision Divine are back with their second fullength album after some trouble with a series of postponed releasedates as a result. But we haven't waited in vain, people - this is excellent. What strucks me when listening to this is that they have taken on a more mature sound this time, without leaving out anything of what makes Vision Divine what they are, and how we would like to hear them. The overall sound is somewhat more heavy and darker this time, and that is a direction that shows itself to be the best possible for Vision Divine. The album starts off with the titletrack Send Me an Angel, which pretty much sets a mark of the rest of the album - uptempo, good riffs and catchy bridges and choruses. I held their previous selftitled album Vison Divine for one the best that came during 2000, and this is not far behind.
The track Black & White for example, is a perfect example of Italian metal at it's best - they are all very good musicians that really capture the mood in the songs, and even though I am no fan of progressive elements in metal, I must say that Vision Divine handles it with perfection without overdoing it one bit. Cause we find those elements here as well as on the first album, and perhaps a bit more than in the rest of their fellow countrymen's bands, but it only adds a bit extra to those metalriffs instead of making it hard and difficult. A few midtempo songs you will find on this album, but the lion share consists of fastpaced songs filled with everything that you can expect from an italian band - they have something very professional and classy over them. I can't really explain, but you can really feel that they are doing what they can to deliver the very best to the listeners in the best package (=production) possible - and they seldom fail, these italians.
Fabio Lione is brilliant as always, Thorsen is bending strings like never before (unusally enough that guy started playing guitar as late as at the age of 20, back in 1991), and I really like the sound of the keyboards on this album - clean, catchy and fast. They are also using quite a bit of female backing vocals and choirs that help producing a pleasant vocal experience. There is not a dead second on this cd, and it gets better and better for every minute the disc is spinning and the last 4-5 songs are all pure hits - the instrumental Nemesis and Flame of Hate to name a few. And the closure, the A-HA cover Take On Me - what a hit!
To be honest - how strange it might sound, though - this is one of the best covers I have heard in my days! It's just excellent in Vison Divine's version with strong riffing, delightful keybords, and beautiful choirs. Some bands (At Vance, Vision Divine to name a few) seem to have a special love for making covers of old swedish and norwegian pop/rockbands form the mid-80's, and I can't recall raising many eyebrows over the outcome of that before, but this is good.
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also review of: Destination
Set To Nowhere , The
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8,5 chalices of 10 - Tommy |
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