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- Band:
Celestial Wizard - Duration: 00:45:56
- Available from: 11/07/2025
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Scarlet Records
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We immediately reassure the fans of “Red Dead Redemption” and “Westworld”: despite the cover with a cyber-western cut, the only point of contact with the border world is the Morriconian Intro “Muerte”, prelude to what for the rest has its roots in the Melodic Death scene at the horseback of the third millennium, made at the sound level with a more modern cut and winking. to the Metalcore and Nwoahm scene of the beginning of the century.
The third record of the Celestial Wizard, an American formation under contract with our Scarlet Records, therefore fights to the plethora of bands that grown throughout the earth's globe as spores of the Gothenburg sound – from the Blinded Colony to the Divine Souls, passing through the Rise to Fall and Redivivi Withering Surface – and does it with the right dose of profession and a technical expert Sufficient to make listening pleasant, albeit derivative: “Pale Horse” is a loose bridle ride that resumes the lesson of Maidenian guitars, as well as between filtered voices, tight rhythms, ficcanti refrains and powerful solos the six minutes of “fangbearer” fly via Veloci, in a mix among the vintage flames and the best dies.
Unfortunately, not the whole tracklist maintains this level of inspiration: “Shores of Eternity” makes the latest Dark Tranquility with a greater appeal to clean (by guitarist Nick Daggers) and keyboards without however possessing the interpretative skills of stannethe, as well as the Semi-Balled “Emerald Eyes”, epored by the Scream in a bad attempt to build their “Nothing Else. Matters ”, appears a bit of a gamble of Denver quintet.
The metalcore aggressiveness of “Into the abyss” or that-like “ride with fire”, even if compared to the opening traces is missing that bite that can make them memorable already after a couple of listening, a limit that also characterizes the title-track placed in closing. As in the case of the previous “Winds of the Cosmos”, even for “Regenesis” we can talk about a disc in half: the technical means are there, as well as the test on the single lap, but on the long distance some too much yawns emerges. The regeneration of the Gothenburg sound can wait.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
