Description
Rare 2005 Japan pressing
Vision Divine were born in 1998, originally as a solo project from guitarist Olaf Thorsen (former member of the Italian band Labyrinth).Very soon, by the way, Fabio Lione (Rhapsody’s singer) rejoins him after the first Labyrinth period (No Limits),and then what was supposed to be a solo project quickly turns into nothing but a real band, taking its new name from the previous Labyrinth’s monicker (Vision) and from the title that was supposed to be given to Olaf’s first solo album (Divine). Completing the line up Mat Stancioiu (drums), Andrew Mc Pauls (Keyboards) and Andrea Torricini (Bass). In its first 3 years the band released 2 albums and,thanks to the good results with the sales, they start touring around the world, and here we’d like to mention the great South American Tour in December of 2000, where for the first time an Italian Heavy Metal band got the chance to play (and sold-out) countries like Argentina ,Chile ,Brazil, Panama ,Mexico. In 2001 the band started writing and recording the new album, titled ‘Send Me An Angel’, released in January 2002. At the end of the same year Olaf decided to leave Labyrinth to focus just on VD and also to stop any annoying rumour from some mags, pretending to consider VD as nothing but a side project. For the same reasons Andrew and Mat left VD and were replaced by the highly talented Oleg Smirnoff on Keyboards (ex Eldritch and Death SS) and Matteo Amoroso on drums (ex Athena). In 2003 the band started the songwriting for the third album, when unfortunately Fabio had some problem regarding the coexistence of his career and VD – related duties . After some months, they mutually agreed to split in a friendly way, and the new singer was chosen in the person of Michele Luppi, a highly skilled and talented guy with a big experience in live performances also. With this new line-up it was finally possible to complete the last songs, so the third album was recorded and titled Stream Of Consciousness, released 2004. A year later the band released their first ever dvd, Stage Of Consciousness, featuring an amazing live performance of the album Stream Of Consciousness.
Track list:
1. Stream Of Unconsciousness
2. Secret Of Life
3. Colours Of My World
4. In The Light
5. The Fallen Feather
6. La Vita Fugge
7. Versions Of The Same
8. Through The Eyes Of God
9. Shades
10. We Are, We Are Not
11. Fools Garden
12. The Fall Of Reason
13. Out Of The Maze
14. Identities
15. Bonus Live Tracks
16. Photo Gallery
17. Exclusive Interviews
18. New Eden-new version with Luppi on vocals-audio bonus
19. Send Me An Angel-new version with Luppi on vocals-audio bonus
20. Pain-new version with Luppi on vocals-audio bonus