What we're dealing
with is the anticipation in the form of a MCD of the impending album
"Follow Me" by the superband composed by Frank Andiver
(drums & keyboards in Shadows of Steel, Oracle Sun and formerly
in Labyrinth), Andrea "Tower" Torricini (Vision Divine's bassist),
Alexx Hall (experienced pop-rock singer) and Vic Mazzoni (Shadows of
Steel's and Projecto's guitarist).
These 4 tracks tell about a killer in prison who keeps fancying about
his concept of freedom, that is 'Wonderland'; the title track and "The
Call of the Dawn" consist of very catchy tuneful speed power
with a few rides and axe solos, while "Follow the End"
is an electro-pop lullaby that'll help your old-fashioned girlfriends
to be debauched into metal world. The end is given by "Children
of Heaven", a Sword's cover version. The only piece of advice
I like to give the singer is to try to sing as natural as possible without
showing the restraints of the metrics too much, as to the rest I haven't
found plain faults.
After the fairly good 1998 EP "Somewhere in My Eyes",
the 4-piece has created a product able to cope with foreign competition
at last; and I'm convinced it will achieve a big success not only here
and in Japan, thanks to the quality of the top-notch songwriting and
the recording at the Zenith Studios, the mixing at the Octagonal Paris
Recording and the mastering at the Finnvox Studios in Helsinki.
Wonderland:
when Italian metal is not only 'tralala' metal...
MARKUS GANZHERRLICH - 24/07/03
Contacts:
http://digilander.libero.it/wonderworld
www.risingworks.com
