There’s something coming out of the world and voyages in the
city of Italy. That group is called Radiance that has embarked the sounds of
Fantasy, Opera, Power Metal, Story-telling, and the views of life, death, and
rebirth. Their debut album, Undying Diabolyca, is almost a mini concept album
about a feminine figure who is a time traveler as she is both from heaven and
hell dealing with issues on life and death, witch and healer, and salvation.
The band considers Federica Viola on guitar, Fabio Accardo on Bass and Synth,
Elio Lao on Drums, and Karin Baldanza on lead vocals.
Combining with the sounds of Prog Metal that comes out with
a heavy eruptive crunching sound that thunderous between the inspirations of
Tool, King Crimson, Amberian Dawn, Hammerfall, and Nightwish rolled up into
one, but there is some real mind-blowing machine-gun sounds from the guitar and
drums as they revved up their riffing and pummeling stomping like a tidal wave
that is ready for a full on battle. Haunting, Driven, and Explosive, Radiance
are the real deal when it comes to bring two of the genres of metal both Power
and Prog rolled up into one.
The gentle turned heavy opener, Towards Doom starts out with
roaring guitar lines between rhythm and lead that Federica does as it segues
into the thunderous and sinister rumble, Another Way. Here, Karin challenges
both Heidi Parviainen and Sharon Den Adel on her vocalization as the band creates
this militant yet metallic opera that would set the Metal Festivals up a storm
and whip up into a huge frenzy. Behind the Light is a train-driven yet charging
roar for Radiance to go full speed ahead and going into the rumbling lines that
sends shivers down your spine as Federica nails it by paying tribute to Yngwie
Malmsteen, Brian May, and Kirk Hammett.
Sounding like the Kill ‘Em All-era of Metallica and the Powerslave-era
of Iron Maiden, Storm is a tour de force. It has nice touches of Thrash and
bits of NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal), at times the music is very
dramatic yet with a lot of action as the group work as a team while Resonance
sees the band go into a quiet and calm mode for the band to give a chance for
the louder side a small break as they break into an acoustic and folky surroundings
with a lot of ambient and soothing atmospherics.
The mind-blowing Whirl’s Criterion and La Poison a La Mode
are transformed into whirling, thrill-seeking, and staggering marvelous
compositions as the title track offers a lot of explosive counterweights to
have your jaws dropped including a thumping bass line that Fabio brings as we
head to the closer, Pulse of Awakening. Features both Synth and Bass going into
this ‘80s futuristic atmosphere, it has this ambient/atmospheric surroundings
that feels as if they had done the score to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.
If you love the Female Symphonic and Power Metal bands, then
Radiance is one of the bands to check out and dig Undying Diabolyca. A
heart-stopping album that is worth checking out.
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