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- Band:
Eternal Idol - Duration: 00:53:27
- Available from: 11/07/2025
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The Eternal Idol arrive with “Behind a Vision” to their third full-length, which arrives in our opinion in a discounted way, given the already quiet story of the band. Founded in 2016 by Fabio Lione and Nik Savio (Hollow Haze), he begins to already have the first in line-up distortions after the publication of the debut album, “The Unrevedaled Secret”, with the separation of colleges (his father Camillo and his daughter Giorgia). “Renaissance” is a second very valid second full-length, but after this they first leave the new singer Claudia and then even Fabio Lione himself.
At this point, the group could have safely dissolved, but Savio, convinced of the validity of the project, thought of continuing, confirming the excellent rhythmic section, composed of Andrea Buratto on bass and Enrico Fabris on drums, while the current singers are Letizia Merlo and Gabriele Gozzi (recently entered the German indiction also).
This new work, recorded last year (as confirmed by a member of the band and not between 2019 and 2020, as erroneously indicated in the press release of the frontiers), continues in principle in the wake of the previous album, proposing a fresh and engaging melodic metal, full of orchestrations and sound effects. In general, the style appears a little less focused on the voices and guitarism of Savio, which remain important, but are less in the foreground and are tended to be more dropped in an overall sound.
The disc starts very well with four very successful songs (“Amnesia”, The Enemy is me “,” Empire of One “and Vampire”), where there is an excellent balance in terms of power, sound and exquisite melodies, but also with a good feeling between the voices of the two singers. A little less brilliant, in our opinion, “Battle of Souls”, while “Beyond the Sun” convince us, where there is also an interlude in Italian and “Revolution”, a trace that seems inspired by the melodic and vowel intertwining of temperances. For the rest, the tracklist continues with good songs, which however we are inclined not to put on the same level compared to those already mentioned.
Let's say that, if in the first two albums the Eternal Idol gave the impression of trying to try to look for something to some extent of innovative, “Behind a Vision” goes all in all to fit into a trend of melodic metal whose Italian bands can really make school, with good results; In addition, the songs tend to be more linear and do not recognize prog ideas that somehow were present in the past. As for the orchestrations, they are now a fundamental element in the band's sound, but in contrast to this importance, despite being well cared for, in some step they seemed to us a little too essential.
Among the most positive notes, we point out the excellent performance of the two singers, who can really be the right people to give continuity to this project and the confirmation of Fabris, who as a young talent has now become a certainty and one of the most interesting drummers in circulation.
More than anything else, however, on “Behind a Vision” Savio managed to give concreteness once again to this musical vision, creating a very valid album and, what matters most, as highlighted, with many beautiful songs.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
