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Metamorfosi

Rock Progressivo Italiano

4.06 | 294 ratings

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ZowieZiggy
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Metamorphosi got rid of their guitar player and the sound of this album is much more in the vein of ELP than their prior work (although guitar was very scarce in there).

One is really plunged into the ELP world as soon as the first notes of "Introduzione" are played. And this feeling will prevail almost throughout the album. Since it is a concept one, there are several short tracks or at least defined as such like "Porta Dell'Infernio", "Caronte" and a few more. But since all tracks are flowing nicely into one another it sounds more as if they were part of a bigger whole.

If you take "Spacciatore." for instance. This longer song features lots of theme changes: from dull jazzy stuff to magnificent and melodic prog. This one could also have been sliced into three-four distinctive parts, so I don't really understand most of the cuts between songs here.

Anyway, that's probably why I consider this work more as a one epic song than how it is represented. Some parts being of course superior to others. "Violenti" and its excellent moog solo to close is a good example of a good piece of music.

I have to say that I was expecting some more from this album, having seen so many high ratings I was expecting a masterpiece and IMHHO it is not. A good album seriously influenced by ELP. With some Italian flavour of course (just listen to the splendid "Lucifero").

Three stars.

ZowieZiggy | 3/5 | 2008-8-12

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