The Spin: the album that consolidates the success of the Venetian band :: Ondarock's reviews

Three years after the celebrated “Close”, the Mass return – now expected as real big names – with the new LP “The Spin”. The mass are one of those bands that do not betray fans and “The spin” is a job that confirms what the four musicians of Cittadella had done in their first three albums and which had been appreciated practically everywhere in their lives around the world.

It was expected by some such as the turning point, but in reality “The Spin” is the album of confirmation and consolidation, with compact and decisive songs that give the impression of a confident band and capable of using doses of profession to their advantage to support any moments of uncertainty. The fundamental difference seems to be more than anything else the lesser quantity of influences already present previously, from the psychedelic finals of “Belfry” (“Blood”) to the folk intrusions of “Close” (“Orphalese”).

Two songs above all ecepire them in the leading reality of the Doom, we can now say, international (as shown by the landing at Metal Blade Records). The first is the single “The Dress” which starts immediately with a riff monolithic, in the recognizable style of Alberto Piccolo, with the usual magnificent song of Sara Bianchin, guitar interlude with a sound rock sound vaguely CarpenterianThen the entry of a trumpet and a jazz guitar up to a dizzying ending. These are things that the mass had already done in previous years, but now they consolidate their experience by managing to create a song in perfect balance. Instead, there is a novelty a song as “immolation”, with intro of singing and plan almost from Black Music which explodes in half in a truly remarkable hypothesis.

For the rest there are no moments of weakness, the first single “At the Races” or “Fire on the Roof”, with an electronic base, are typical songs of sound of mass. The eight eight eight minutes of “Thicker Blood” must not go unnoticed, perhaps a dip in the deepest abysses of the disc with one of the most adventurous guitar finals imagined by Alberto Piccolo.

21/04/2025