Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

Published September 17 2012

*=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

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	5	8	7	7

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Tobbe