Vision Divine - Italian prog power band is streaming two new songs

Long-running prog power band Vision Divine (Italy) is now streaming two songs from their upcoming album Blood And Angels' Tears, scheduled to be released on the 20th of September, 2024. Active since 1997, the new album will be their ninth full-length. I have been listening to the new work, and it sounds like an album that emphasizes quality in the songwriting, balancing the prog while keeping the music melodic heavy metal, very often uptempo and catchy. The singing is on the higher end of the spectrum, but it's smooth and it's not banshee screaming for its own sake. The album is a good combination of intelligent musicianship and rocking songs. In addition, this is riff-based music, and it's not lazy, groove-based string plucking relying on chugging to be "prog." The guitar soloing is exquisite and memorable, with a bit of that shredding legacy, too. Credit to the band for not forgetting to balance all the various elements, despite the fact that this is a concept album. Apparently the band will be continuing the story on the next album, too. A summary of the idea of the lyrics is the following from the Book of Revelation: “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (Revelation 12:7-9). The album feels like the soundtrack of an opera or an epic movie, if such work used melodic metal. It sounds like a pretty big production. If you like trivia, you may like to know that they have some guests on vocals: Ray Alder (Fates Warning), Alle Conti (Twilight Force, Trick Or Treat) and AC Wild (Bulldozer). At any rate, the album should be a delight for fans of melodic singing and melodic prog metal.

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