Description

Exilia is a female-fronted nu-metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1993. Exilia‘s website says that the band is “a combination of aggressive riffs, hard pounding drums, crisp bass guitars and powerful lyrics and singing style” that sends “shivers through even the most ‘hard to please’ audiences.” Exilia is recommended if you like well-known bands such as Otep (whom Exilia has opened some shows for in 2013), Guano Apes and Straight Line Stitch, or lesser known bands such as Level C or Spike 1000. Yes, that is a chick singing in Spike 1000. Anyway, Exilia has also toured with German industrial metal band Rammstein on their European Tour 2004. And, by the way, Masha sings entirely in English with just a bit of an accent. Her voice is beyond amazing. Exilia‘s debut album Rightside Up (2000) was good and all, but Masha’s vocals were so innocent, youthful, and the band’s alternative rock was lighter, melodic, like pop/rock, especially on rockers like “Rightside Up”, “Excuse Me” and “Baby Doll”, and even more so on the many ballads: “Sweet Rain”, “Not Me”, “Always With Me” and “Even If”. And, “Free To Live” is positively uplifting! But, five years later. On Unleashed (2005), Exilia mixed a heavier, more aggressive sound with the melodic alternative rock of their debut, while Masha’s vocals were harder, more mature, and her lyrics, darker, more pessimistic. All for the better. Unleashed includes two of Exilia‘s best known tracks, “Stop Playing God” and “Coincidence”.

Tracks are:
1. Coincidence
2. Stop Playing God
3. Day In hell
4. Underdog
5. Mr. Man
6. Starseed
7. Shout Louder
8. I Guess You Know
9. Without You
10. The World Is Fallin’ Down
11. Rise When You Fall
12. Heaven’s Gate
13. Where I’m Wrong
14. Stop Playing God-video