Symphonity - Marco Polo - The Metal Soundtrack (2022) [44.1kHz/24bit]

[antonsm]

Symphonity - Marco Polo- The Metal Soundtrack (2022) 44.1-24
Country: Czechia
Genre: Symphonic Melodic Power Metal
Format: FLAC (*tracks)
Quality: Lossless [44,1kHz/24 bit]
Time: 41:47
Full Size: 507.79 MB

With its third full-length release, Symphonity has the attention of an audience that is hangry for something to sink its teeth into. Outside of New Horizon's Gate of the Gods and Stray Gods' Storm the Walls, there haven't been too many standout power or heavy/power metal releases rivaling the best of last year's bunch. Releases from Power Paladin, Validor, Veonity, and Palantir have all been strong but none reach the grandiosity of Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom - Part 3 or the extreme noodling of Eternity's End's Embers of War. And, mostly, this album exploits that need well.

Playing a highly particularized brand of symphonic power metal that very much sounds Italian in origin-despite the band's Czech roots-Symphonity brings you, dear listener, the story of Marco Polo. Appropriately titled Marco Polo: The Metal Soundtrack, the album is as richly textured as it is heavy. And it's that latter commitment to riffs that not only keeps this ship afloat but makes for smooth sailing-sorry, it had to be done.

Symphonic metal can mean many things. But Symphonity's symphonic has much more in common with Rhapsody of Fire than it does Nightwish. There's a rapidity to Symphonity's sound that feels more purely power metal than most symphonic metal bands that bridge the two sub-genres. As one might expect, the rapidity is more obvious in shorter songs such as "The Plague" and "I Found My Way Back Home" than a more epic song such as "Mongols." But regardless of song length, there's a grit to the band's approach that, to its credit, stresses riffs above all else.

Please login or register to see this quote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=una9m1FH34o

Please login or register to see this code.