Given the sounds of Black Metal with a dosage between
Folk-Prog Rock and Avant-Garde atmosphere, it’s quite an interesting take of
creating those three genres and making it combined into one. And one of the
bands that have been around called In Tormentata Quiete. Formed in 1998, the
band’s concept is to create a score of the spiritual journey of how a Man has
to deal with their own emotions and they have released three albums so far on
the concept and now released this year from My Kingdom Music is Cromagia.
It’s an album that goes through the passion of humanity and
creates the dynamics of the storyline in different vibes with exquisite themes
and intense yet insane structures on what they would come up with next.
Beginning with an ambient guitar-like alarming introduction that has elements
of Tangerine Dream’s score to Sorcerer
on the opener, Blu, it makes you go
inside the human mind of the man’s idea and see what he would do next as it
segues into il Profumo del Blu.
There are some of the beauty and the beast vocals in there
with the shrieking thrown in and took me by surprise with the electronic vibes
thrown in there along with at times operatic vocals between Simone Lanzoni and
Marco Vitale as Irene Petitto handles the middle-eastern vocalizations as the
instruments come right in knocking the door down. It goes through a melodic
touch for the first 2 minutes and 55 seconds as the violin done by Elena
Mirandola and the rhythm and lead guitars along with the growling/insanity
vocals, makes you realize that someone is going is trying to break loose in the mental
institution before getting into the folk-like sound and into the uplifting
touches as Irene comes in and the band goes back into the intense section from the
instruments.
Rosso starts off
with a droning Indian sitar introduction with some amazing improvisation
through a soft turned swift beauty done by Leo Vertunni, as it tells the tale
of the passion of living while il Sapore
del Rosso goes back into the moving melody and then back into the darker
elements. Not to mention the piano, vocals, and guitar solo coming in done by
Lorenzo Rinaldi and Maurizo D’Apote on the bass creating the vibes growing and
Paparella’s drumming goes into sooth and fast-driven at times, giving it all
the power they got to kick it in.
Lorenzo Rinaldi really shines through his guitar playing as
he puts his electric down for a while and goes into the classical side
acoustically with two beautiful gems with Verde
featuring Lanzoni’s vocals and the homage to Ottmar Liebert at times with for
the first two minutes and into the metallic side in the styles of early
Metallica on Giallo. On Nero, it goes into an ominous yet
atmospheric surrounding with quiet growling and whispering insanity vocals with
the keyboards setting the tone on the conflict on the inner self as the two
tracks, La Carezza del Giallo and La Visione del Nero gets back into the
nightmarish sounds for the person to conflict the demons inside them.
The closing track, InVento,
is a soaring orchestral piece. The band gives Irene a chance to shine
through her calming vocals. It is an emotional yet touching composition and
Irene does an incredible job while the band gives it a ray of light to find
hope as the encouraging harmonies, gratifies the warmth and fulfilling beats.
In Tormentata Quiete’s Cromagia is
not an easy album to listen to, but it is a powerful, dark, folk, classical,
and extreme album combined into one and they have brought the concept for the
listener knowing that it might hit home for them and finding out who they are
and have a second chance in life to start a new chapter for them.
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