Sick n 'Beautiful – Horror Vacui

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Just as a book from the cover is not judged, in the same way the visual aspect of a band is not symptomatic of the proposed quality. In the case of the Sicck n 'Beautiful, however, we can say that the aesthetic image of the band immediately captures attention, by virtue of the folk-cyberpunk look of its components, and the musical aspect moves hand in hand, by virtue of a modern hard rock and full of contamination, from industrial to pop electrical, passing through the horror punk to close the circle with the most scenic part.
With ten years and three discs to the active, the Roman quintet has not been part of the 'debutants' category, but “Horror Vacui” represents a further maturation in terms of stylistic variety and quality of production, and from this point of view it has little or nothing to envy to the most famous overseas formations; It is no coincidence that it was chosen to baptize the new Blk II Blk label, branch of the frontiers dedicated to more modern sounds, as well as future home of historical names such as Biohazard and Megadeth.
The explosive opening entrusted to “(Human Is) OverRed” opens the dances with a puzzle sound to remind us of the more caciaroni in this moment (in the good sense of the term), as well as the subsequent “My Wounds”, with its high electronic rate and a very powerful refrain, releases power from the boxes with the contagious charge of the Halestorm.
A start in the sign of rock, but the link with the reference figures of the industrial scene in a broad sense (Rob Zombie, Nine Inch Nails, Marylin Manson, Rammstein, Deathstars) emerges in the martial rhythms of “Death Police” and “Railrid” as well as in the synth loaded with “Maleficum Septem” balls: nothing new under the stroboscopic lights, But the right dose of energy makes listening pleasant, net of some sporadic empty passage (“The Rat King”, marching in the “The Beautiful People” marcetta without the bite of the original).
To make it all more interesting, we underline the chameleonic capacity of ours to approach the most cheeky rock of the Pretty Reckless (“Hate Manifesto”) as well as to the Modern Gothic of the last Within Temptation (“Raised the Dragon”, complete with vowel from mezzosoprano at the opening), moving in skiing between genres. By mixing Christina Ricci, Jenna Ortega and Jason Voorhees as Wednesday 13 teaches, we can say that we have found in the figure of the frontwoman Herma Sick the 'Wednesday 13' tricolor.

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