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Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

Published September 17 2012


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=Staff's pick

S'i Fosse Foco
The Dream Maker
Beyond The Sun And Far Away
The Ark
Mermaids From Their Moons*
The Lighthouse*
Message To Home*
The House Of The Angels
The Sin Is You
Here We Die
Destination Set To Nowhere


Genre Progressive Power Metal
Fabio Lione
Vocals
Tracks 11
Olaf Thorsen
Guitar
Running time 51 Min.
Federico Puleri
Guitar
Label earMusic
Andrea Torricini
Bass
Release 14 September 2012
Alessandro Bissa
Drums
Country Italy
Alessio Lucatti
Keyboard
Producer -
Similar artists Kamelot

Italian sextet Vision Divine is back with their seventh release and once again with Fabio Lione behind the mic. A concept album, but fortunately without any annoying instrumental songs or interludes to fit the story together; the intro S'i Fosse Foco not counted. Some may say overproduced, but with a clean production like on Destination Set To Nowhere, it also feels fresh and up to date.

After that, mentioned above, utterly boring intro, spoken in Italian, three decent classic progressive power metal songs follows, before this album turns into something greater. So whatever you do, don't judge this album too soon, and give it a shot even if the first part seems kind of bland.

Mermaids From Their Moons with its catchiness, fast power metal monster The Lighthouse and the ballad Message To Home all lift this album to the skies and close to climax. Continuing with semi-speedy The House Of The Angels and beautiful The Sin Is You, before two semi-ballads rounds up the album and there you have a quick runthrough.

I was first going to give this album a decent grade, but then I decided to give it another couple of spins and I'm glad I did. This is actually a good record and it most of all shows that this genre still has more to offer.

See also review of: The Perfect Machine , Send Me An Angel

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Summary



7 chalices of 10 - Tobbe


Related links:

www.visiondivine.com
www.myspace.com/visiondivineband
www.facebook.com/visiondivineofficial