Nicta - Rage And Fury Fed Us
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Published March 07 2007
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*=Staff's pick
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Civil War
Frozen Sleeper*
Blossom Of Pain*
Set The Fury Free
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Genre |
Extreme Power Metal |
Fabio Valentini
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Vocals
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Tracks |
4 |
Nuccio Cafà
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Guitar
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Runningtime |
30 Min. |
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Guitar
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Stefano Marchetto
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Bass
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Release |
Jan. 2007 |
Andrea Bertassello
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Drums
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Country |
Italy |
Graziano Ferracioli
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Keyboard
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Similar artists |
Children
Of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Dreamaker |
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Nicta is an Italian band that label themselves to play
metal of extreme power. The band formed in 2001 and has the intent to
play melodic and aggressive metal and with Rage And Fury Fed Us they
have reached their fourth demo. First out of the four tracks is Civil
War, and it starts with an up-tempo power metal beat but when it comes
to the verses the music is delivered with determined aggression in more
of a death metal vein complete with grunts. The chorus is a combination
of power metal with clean vocals and a melodic style while the grunts
make you aware that this is more than simply that, musically this aren't
to far from Spanish band Dreamaker with the cleaner and melodic parts.
Nicta deliver aggressive metal with power metal melodies
and it is hard to pinpoint this band as they spread far and wide with
their music, mostly death, a great deal of power and they are not afraid
to make progressive turns and to also add an atmosphere of black metal.
Nevertheless, a description that somewhat throws you in the right direction
is to say that they play Italian power metal mixed with death and black
metal from the Scandinavian regions.
Frozen Sleeper is one of the better tracks on the demo,
as it is the track that combines the different elements of Nicta the
best. The melody line from piano and keyboard plays an important role
in this track where you can add the genre description of doom to the
already mentioned. Blossom Of Pain becomes really heavy with the symphonic
parts, and to let a thought drift towards Dimmu Borgir feels not to
be inappropriate in any way. The length of the tracks are, apart from
the shorter opening song, about eight minutes and at times it feels
like it would have been better to shorten them a little as it tend to
spread away touch much at times. The complex song structures that are
performed with the honour could perhaps been served with a bit more
simplicity. Although it is no doubt that Nicta consists of very talented
musicians that have the skill of mature song writing but nonetheless
I feel that the songs do not always hold together that well.
The closing track Set The Fury Free has a grand symphonic
opening that turns into straightforward melodic death kind of in the
same spirit as with early Children Of Bodom. Further, it breaks off
with more black metal flirting and some progressive metal in the melodic
breaks in a track that goes in the same manor as the others. Even though
the genre boundaries are broken regularly, they keep a solid red line
through their songs and it sounds as a homogenous effort. One bad point
is that the keyboards, that are used heavily, come out too much in front
of the guitars, and the canned guitar-sound does not make me as happy
as the playing does. Rage And Fury Fed Us is a very interesting demo
and it takes its time to get in to it, but judging by what Nicta has
achieved already on the demo-stage, it promises well for the future.
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