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6.5
- Band:
Hellfox - Duration: 00:36:20
- Available since: 06/06/2025
- Label:
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Rockshots Records
In the eternal struggle between creative and analytical abilities, musicians generally prefer the first in the search for their identity, while the reviewers are led to classify and categorize the musical proposal of the artists, so that they can give precise references to the public. Well, in the case of the Hellfox, the all -female Bergamo quartet, this definition work is not so easy, given the mix of elements that distinguish “The Spectrum of Human Gravity”, according to album three years after the debut “The Call”.
Certainly, as stated by the band itself, there is a aftertaste of Melodic Death Metal Vintage (Primo Amorphis, Dark Tranquility and in Flames), even if the female song has reminded us of the proposal of the Amaran, Swedish training of the beginning of the century that can be noticed for this mix.
The vocal intertwining between the singer who owns Greta Antico and the Growl of the bassist Priscilla Poe can recall the gaps coil, but from the instrumental point of view, the orchestrations and the atmosphere in general get closer to the English Gothic scene of the nineties (“Empty”) and to the symphonic derivation of the two thousand, from the epic to the mermaids, with the keyboards to deact On the ceiling “and” Atlas “.
A modern production, the work of the Guru Simone Mularoni, ensures the right dose of power since the opener “Nautilus + Seaweed Braids”, where the arpeggios of Gothenburghiana memory are effectively mixed with particularly grown bass lines, juxtaposed to electronic effects that add a more alternative component as in the darkest “Pareidolia”.
After such a crackling and varied beginning, however, in the second half of the disc not all row smooth: “Six Times Lightter” and “The Centipede” play on the contract between Clean and Growl but, net of a more theatrical setting, the refrains are less ficcanti and the excessively twisted guitars, making listening less fluid. Interesting vice versa “The Warrior, The Child, The Healer”, more Heavy-Power piece than to the above influences adds a modern touch in the wake of the last UNLEASH the archers, before the closure entrusted to the “voices” outcome.
A return, that of the Bergamo band, which allows you to glimpse good potential in a setting still from the multifaceted ingenuity in the making: we are now waiting for them to the finish line of the third disc with an even more focusing sound.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
