Benthos – from Nothing

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• Band:
  Benthos
• Duration: 00:45:25
• Available from: 11/04/2025
• Label:

• Inside out

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We have in our hands the new Milanese album Benthos, who return with “From Nothing” and inaugurate the partnership together with Inside Out Music definitely with many positive notes: inventiveness and ability to mix genres, without using stereotypes and above all without ever being transported too much in the clichés of the different genres with which they manage to contaminate their progress. If then we put that I am on the second album but what they bring on stage is a great maturity, we can also notice how they manage to transmit the freshness of improvisation and curiosity in experimenting.
If we had already listened to the “II” debut released in 2021, this new chapter brings with it the confirmations of a new reality that combines the most melodic parts with the most hardcore ones, the instrumental world with the screamed, the harmonious and ethereal parts to the decidedly impacting ones.
The Milanese quintet manages to do it with a linearity that screeches even if only to think; But he succeeds, with a game of growing, with themes developed by the Arzigogoli by the guitars of Gabriele Papagni and Enrico Tripodi, as in the complex “Athletic Worms”, which then flow into the angry vocal part of Gabriele Landillo. Listening to the new album “from Nothing”, as it has been conceived, we are many times as in a storm, where the quiet gives way to the lash and then the light rays come back, all supported by a powerful rhythmic part, where the bass technique of Alberto Fiorani finds the changes of rhythm, from jazz passages to almost grind (just think of the evolution of the “Fossil” Alessandro Tagliani.
And so the structure of the album-twelve tracks with the beginning, an interlude (“Recomposposo”, almost an invitation to a break before resuming some of the search issues of the ego of the songs that will follow) and the end are short parentheses instrumental from the post-rock touch, while the remaining songs are much more articulated-reflects in its entire development a path with various attitudes, from the short and impactful piece as the single ” Cordyceps ”to the long one that gives the title to the album (which starts with the clean voice of Gabriele Landillo and atmospheres that could feel on a disc of the first Pain of Salvation and is divided into increasingly Math-core parts). In fact, they are precisely the most complex traces to represent the spirit of the Benthos, which cannot be found in a genre but bearers of absences of barriers.
We must recognize that what is the result is a mathematically impossible interlocking between the extreme and a progressive of the early 2000s, with melodic passages and with a beautiful warm and clean voice and then a hardcore/grind development I do not postpone but which finds in “Perpetual Drone Monkeys” the manifesto of the unique style of the Benthos.

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