SHAMAN
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2/12/2009 7:24:52 PM
IMMORTAL CD REVIEW - by WHIPLASH magazine GIORGIO MORAES
By Giorgio Moraes | Published in 25/01/09
When I got this CD, I thought with my bottoms: "One more metal band with their ego fight that is clear in each song". I took the CD home, sat in the sofa, took a deep breath. I was ready to be launched in a universe of high screams and unfinished guitar solos. When I putted "Immortal" to play, however, I’ve been introduced to something very different from what I thought.
Ricardo Confessori, drummer and founder of the band in 2000, commands killer team. Highlights for Thiago Bianchi that go to the extreme – in "Tribal by Blood" – to the sweet – in the track "One Life”. And also, the guy even signs the production, the mix and the lyrics composition, in a rare attitude for a Metal vocalist (in the most time isolated and alone in their "bubbles of superiority").
Another positive fact, in my sight, is the fact of keeping only one guitarist, Leo Mancini. It helps to keep a single sound, very peculiar, that still characterizes the band. And Mancini don’t let the Ball fall, with bases that keeps in mind, like "Inside Chains", but never abusing the solos. It is called feeling, ladies and gentlemen: the art to know where each part fits. And that, unfortunately, is for a few.
Still in the production item, It’s needed to say that "Immortal" is Made in Brazil until the bones: recorded, mixed and mastered in São Paulo; the pretty graphic part was made by Rodrigo Cruz, from SCstudio; also the “Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo” (OSESP), that gives the air of the grace in the introduction, "Rennovatti", that also creates a very interesting climes along the CD. The quality of the union of factors will for sure shut the mouth of many enemies of the Brazilian production. The unique part that came from outside was a speech of a real Shaman from a tribe in Equador. The dialect appears in the good title-track.
To close with Golden-Key, Shaman throws you in a forest in the nice "The Yellow Brick Road". And who reaches here, like I reached, starts to see in the dark.
Before someone asks me the rank, I say: its 10 grade.
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