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Ardityon - Duration: 00:42:22
- Available from: 28/02/2025
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Underground Symphony
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Six years after the homonymous debut, the Ardityon, Veneto trio active since 2018 and dedicated to the most Heavy/Power sounds, where melody and rockiness go copiously to the arm are back in action. Key elements presented in the debut album which, in the present here “TRENCHSLAYER”, have been certified again, thus completing a compact, discreetly dynamic work, based on a profound reflection, not at all positive, on technologies and on their impact in modern society.
Entering the details of the album, he points out once again, in addition to the drummer and founder Denis Novello, the singer Valeriano De Zordo, whose vocal stamp, winking at that of a certain Fabio Lione, has given safety and heat to the various songs, building around them episodes rich in energy and melancholy charm. Not only that: if on the one hand, the riffs held by the guitarist Andrea Colusso have guaranteed the most classic matrix of the global proposal (in this regard “Spirit of Fire” and “Toxic Show”), on the other, the “call to weapons” by Mattia Gossetti, already protagonist with the same new ones and De Zordo in the Agarthic and here in the guise of a guest, brought a delicious vein to the same. Orchestral and symphonic, thus going to embellish the entire instrumental system with a touch of modernity.
Perfect combination whose potential occurs immediate in the “Subhuman World” opener, one of the most representative songs of the entire disc, where the characteristics mentioned above show also the most technical side of the musicians, thus laying the number one piece for a first part of the album that is certainly more effective. From the subsequent “Everything is Lost” to the title-track, episodes seasoned by harmony and aggression (the same “Trenchslayer”) alternate, embellished with prog inserts (precisely “Spirit of Fire”) up to the foiled Thrash of “The Livestock”, in which a more airy refrain restores the stylistic balance.
The second half of the album is less impactful, where perhaps there is no piece of variety of the canvas previously exposed, despite the final ballad, “I'm with you”, goes to sign a signature in an exhaustive picture. Traditional but not too much, granitic at the right point, the Ardityons placed a second tile at their Heavy-Power fortress.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
