INDIA

Italy's AZURE AGONY formally became a band in 2006, when main man and keyboardist Marco Sgubin established a project for his creative ideas. The outfit made its debut with the instrumental production "Beyond Belief" in 2010. Since that time the quartet has been expanded to a quintet with the inclusion of Federico Ahrens on vocals, and 2012 saw the band releasing their second CD "India" ? as with their first disc through the Italian label SG Records.

Azure Agony have made themselves a very fine sophomore production with "India". Their accessible take on the Dream Theater school of progressive metal, alternating lighter toned and fairly gentle movements with harder edged ones focusing on intensity is one that should gain this band a nice and broad audience. A very well made album that deserves a lot more attention than it has gotten so far.