Disarmonia Mundi – The Dormant Stranger

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• Band:
  Disharmony mundi
• Duration: 00:53:20
• Available from: 21/03/2025
• Label:

• Coroner Records

At the born of the new millennium, the name of the disharmony Munti will probably not say much, but for anyone who has chewed bread and Melodic Death metal about twenty years ago, one or more memories will be unlocked, given that, in the period between 2002 and 2006, the Piedmontese band churned out three excellent works-“Nebularium”, “Fragments of D-Generation” Tricks “, the latter two with the pride of having also Speed ​​Scree of the Soilwork behind the microphone – capable of keeping up to the spokespersons of the so -called Gothenburg sound of the time. The subsequent “The isolation Game” (2010) and “Cold Inferno” (2015) made media attention drop, thanks to the absence of a real live activity and the focus of the Mastermind Ettore Rigotti on other activities always in the music field (from the Coroner Records, the launch label of the right right, to its study The Metal House), letting the dust deposits on the project until the recent announcement vinyl of the second album.
Surprisingly, the news of this unexpected return with the original formation arrives a few months ago – in addition to the multi -instrumentalist Rigotti, there are the partner singer Claudio Ravinale and the aforementioned frontman of the Helsingborg band – raising the hype of the old fans, given that in the meantime all the big names of the past, from the Sailwork themselves to the Flames, in these two decades, who have more mutated, in these two decades. By transforming what for some could be the Achilles heel of the disharmony Mundi – the excessive similarity to the Swedish leading bands of the scene at the time – in their current strength, riding the nostalgia effect.
This is how, since the “Adrift Among Insignificant Strangers” opaner, we are catapulted into a time machine that brings us back in mid -zero years: from the rhythms tight to the ultra melodic hooks, everything goes perfectly between “Number Five figures” and “Stabbing the drama” (two watershed albums in the sub -insolence), with in addition. Between the two singers (both engaged in the double Scream / clean register) to make the proposal even more stratified, and prospective. Even the electronic arrangements, such as in the “Shadows of a World Painted Red” or in the most rocky “outcast” Midtempo, do nothing to the modernity of today, but they look rather to that of the era MySpace, farewell by the effects of the in flames of “Reroute to Remain” and “Soundtrack to your escape”.
Feeling the guitar duels or the acoustic scores of “Warhound” it is impossible not to grasp the echo of Peter Wichers and Jesper Stromblad (composers respectively of Sailwork and in Flames), as well as the keyboards of the most Danzereccia “Crossroads to Eternity” bring to memory now forgotten groups, from the Blood Stain Child to the Lords of Lords of Lords of Lords of Lords of Lords of Lords Decadence. There is occasionally space also for some more aggressive passage (“8th Circle”, “Architects of Negativeness”), always having the mother band of Speed ​​Scree as a polar star (in this case in the middle period between the Thrash-death of “A Predator's Portrait” and the most airy “Natural Born Chaos”), until it closes, after almost an hour, with the cheerful trend of the bonus track “Sheer” Nothing ”, as light as you are enthralling with her on her whales choirs.
Forget Suffissi -Core and the gender fluidity of modern times: if you want to relive the emotions of the 'Melo Death that more melodic cannot'And recall the times of the iPod, then dive in listening to “The Dormant Stranger”.

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