Description

Black vinyl with printed innersleeve

This Italian epic metal band started out in Rome in 1990 and they have been struggling as a band for more than 18 years now. It was the album Worms Of The Earth, released in 2003, that put them back on the map and the band further made a name for themselves in the epic genre by appearing on tribute albums for Cirith Ungol, Manilla Road and Manowar. Fede Potere Vendetta (Faith Power Vengeance) continues in the Wotan and Wizard vein of speedy epic metal. La Caduta Del Falso/The Fall of The False greets the listener with spoken word passages amidst grandiose melodic guitar leads. This song is essentially a four and a half minute intro track. The album’s title track Fede Potere Vendetta begins in a splendor of whammy bar divebomb pyrotechnics. There are plenty of tempo changes without sounding overtly progressive, I would describe the band’s sound as more traditional and aggressive. Anno Domini is a modern metal take on the traditional metal gallop made popular by Iron Maiden. Lot’s of bombast and a heavy bottom-end from the rhythm section lend this track plenty of punch. The Robert E. Howard influenced Crom opens with a dirgy clanging intro before shifting gears into textures more akin to standard Euro metal fanfare. Apparently several songs on this disc make up a trilogy dubbed The Nemedian Chronicles in reference to Howard’s literary works on the fictional Conan character. The last song on the album, Venarium, is equal parts fire and brimstone and raging traditional metal with blazing tandem lead work from Andrea Kiraya Magini and Tiziano Shreadmaster Marcozzi. For anyone that gets a drawback from this band just because they sing in Italian should check out the Overlord-cd edition that was released in October of 2010. Its an English re-recording of the album that also features Chris Boltendahl of Grave Digger fame on guest vocal on the track Venarium

Track list:
1. La Caduta del Falso
2. Fede Potere Vendetta
3. Crociata
4. Anno Domini
5. Le Cronache di Nemedia
6. Crom
7. Venarium
8. Sangue Acciaio