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NUBIVAGANT - Duration: 00:37:56
- Available from: 04/10/2024
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Amor Fati Productions
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Third recording for this project by Gionata 'Omega' Potenti, very active in the international extreme scene with various black metal bands (among others, Darvaza, Frostmoon Eclipse, Moloch and Chaos Invocation).
Even with Nubivagant we are – although not completely – in the black metal field, specifically with ritualistic and 'transcendental' traits, made decidedly less obvious thanks to Omega's clean voice, which he has completely abandoned since the previous “The Wheel and the Universe”. I scream. And this work really has a lot in common with its predecessor, with respect to which it stands in perfect stylistic continuity. To be more precise, we can say that the entire concept rests on pillars that we now consider clear and well defined, starting from the visual aspect (all three covers show a different drawing, enclosed by the same frame, on a paper background parchment, as if they were tarot illustrations).
Even musically, therefore, we navigate – or perhaps we should say we wander – in widely known territories, made up of an enveloping and mysterious darkness: “Endless Mourning” is very suggestive, with its hypnotic pace and a vocal line that goes very well with the magical suggestions of the music, which distantly recalls the shamanic ones of Caronte.
Not just black metal, we were saying, in fact we have doom rock reverberations that give Nubivagant's music a dilated and at the same time dense texture, see in this regard the slow and massive “A Perfect Throne”, while “Who Made The World” gives us brings you back to more sustained speeds, with riffs mosquitoes and a belligerent battery; here as elsewhere we find flashes of icy epicness, the same ones that in the past had made us think of Primordial, but also of Bathory of the “Hammerheart” period (think of “The Voice Of A Black Candle”, a lilting and almost instrumental track, in the sense that the choirs are used as an additional instrument, rather than a narrative voice).
Overall, we are faced with a record that holds no surprises, and indeed indulges largely in very similar solutions and melodies: the latter is the only flaw of a work that is in any case in focus and supported by excellent sounds.
It is undeniable that Potenti managed to give a personal imprint to this project, which will not fail to please fans of 'orthodox' black metal (in the broad sense), with its intimate and atmospheric tones.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
