2024-04-04 10:15:13
Nitritone – Blindness
Origin: Italy
Release: 05.04.2024
Label: My Kingdom Music
Duration: 39:43
Genre: Post-Metal
As himself Nitritone Founded more than ten years ago, they still made purely instrumental music. Over the years, the Italian post metal duo added vocals. Nevertheless, they are also on what is now their third album Blindness still traveling as a duo.
The result is once again an extremely powerful work whose resources are used efficiently. The long track that begins the album Tight-lipped was broken down into three pieces, each of which can speak for itself and has been individually structured differently. The first part can HERE be reviewed in a lyric video. The third part is more interesting, which initially comes across as percussive and minimalistic and then builds up to a climax as it progresses.
Either way, the duo pays a lot of attention to coherent song structures and, as is often the case in post metal, does not remain motionless in the moods they create. Conceptually, it is loosely based on the work City of the Blind by the Portuguese author Jose Saramago and thus addresses the indifference and fixation on the ego in today’s societies.
Musical role models are there Neurosis, Cult of Luna or Swans. On Removing the Knot you will from your compatriots and genre colleagues Lucynine supports. In their own works they are much more brutal and dense. Here they add Nitritone very good with powerful Italian vocals and tight guitar playing.
Powerful song cycle with a willingness to experiment
I like how the duo sew little sound gimmicks into their post metal corset and also show a lot of rhythmic finesse. The two can act delicately as well as create powerful, penetrating sounds. The title track Blindness and the final one This Is Not The Life I Dreamed Of As A Child conclude this nerve-wracking and dystopian song cycle.
Compared to its direct predecessor Blindness less introverted, less willing to experiment and more post-metallic. fans of Hermitage However, you should also feel comfortable at the new work.
Conclusion
The third album now Blindness brings once again the post metal duo’s willingness to experiment Nitritone comes to light and wraps the whole thing very much in a social dystopia.
9 / 10
Line Up
Siro Giri – Guitar, Gesang
Luca Lavernicocca – drums
Lucynine – guest musician Removing the Knot
Tracklist
01. With Narrow Teeth (pt. 1)
02. With Narrow Teeth (pt. 2)
03. With Narrow Teeth (pt. 3)
04. 25 April 1945
05. Long live Piazzale Loreto
06. Undoing the Knot (feat. Lucynine)
07. Death by Water
08. Blindness
09. This Is Not The Life I Dreamed Of As A Child
Links
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