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Sadist - Duration: 00:40:05
- Available since: 07/03/2025
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Agonia Records
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Three years after the excellent “Firescorqued”, the Sadists return with a new album and renewed formation: after the experience that saw Trevor and Tommy joined by Romain Goulon and Jeroen Paul Thesseling, we now find Giorgio Piva (Fai Unburied, Sinatras) on drums and Davide Piccolo (already in the live training of the Genoese for a few years) on the lower confirmation of Gloria. Rossi.
As the clear variation of line-up brings, “Something to Pierce” sounds different from its predecessor, proof of the fact that the Ligurians, while always maintaining their distinctive features, never publish two equal records. In particular, the album released in 2022 played compact and direct, as if it had been built around that exceptional rhythmic section, while the new appears to be the result of different choices: aggression, the instrumental report above the average and the tendency to seek non -discounted solutions have always been the bearing columns of the Sadist work and, on this occasion, the last aspect prevails, so much so that in these ten pieces, the part of the Leone seems to recite it the compositional vein of Tommy himself.
Certainly, the work of the two new arrivals is fundamental in providing grooves to complex and for most heavy songs, as well as the Trevor test is usually more than convincing for power and ductility, with the usual passages between a deep growling and screams hellish, but the most marked side of “Something to Pierce” is the prog, with changes of time and atmosphere, virtuosism and a use He reports to “Tribe”.
No surprise basically, since a certain audacity has always been in the group's DNA, in the continuous attempt to direct their progressive death metal towards always different roads and in what can be seen simply as a further evolution of a path that began thirty -four years and ten albums ago.
In particular, the impression is that the first part of the lineup is the most linear, reserved for the most canonical pieces such as “Kill Devour Dissect” or “No Feast for Flies”, with an average high aggression rate but always accompanied by refined instrumental passages and arrangements, while in the second, from “The Sun God” until the end of the disc, the most experimental and interesting episodes are relegated. Among these, “Dume Kike”, the longest song, although not lacking in ferocity, contains a melodic insert full of tension before the definitive explosion, while “The best part is the brain” is a threesome thrash playing with sounds close to World Music. It closes with an equally curious brace: “nine roads”, which ventures into Middle Eastern Arabesques, and the instrumental “breathiium”, which takes up the same theme in a purely prog key.
“Something to Pierce” is the umpteenth exit of indisputable value of a band that has never stopped progressing and adding new influences to that progressive complex and unmistakable progressive death which is its trademark. This continuous research represents the most appreciable aspect of the disc, so much so that the moments of superior quality appear to be those in which they dare most.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
