Violet Eternal - things are about to get pretty

Violet Eternal

Reload the Violet

Rockshots Records

3 May 2024

This power metal album features the voice of Italian singer Ivan Giannini [Artaban's Redemption, Derdian, Heavy Generation, Ivan Giannini, ex-DarCloud, ex-Elegacy, ex-Ivory, ex-Airforce (live)]. The instrumentation is the work of Jien Takahashi (Heaven's Tragedy, Majustice, Stormheart), a Japanese guitarist with whose work I am not familiar and whose entities have demos and/or a debut album, but no sophomore albums yet, which is also the case for this project here, Violet Eternal. The singing is traditional power metal high-note vocals throughout and has no growling or extreme screaming. It is meant to be beautiful singing, which also turns out to be the case for the guitar work: very melodic, catchy and lots of shredding. These elements, the singing and guitar playing, really shine together on here. Then, when considered with the good songwriting, it all makes for a beautiful and pleasant listening experience for fans of melodic music based on classic rock and heavy metal. Metal Archives shows that there are several guests contributing some keyboards, guitars, bass and drums on the recording. The drumming sounds programmed and it contributes nothing in particular to the enjoyment of the music, but I do not know the actual details of it, I’m just going by what it sounds like to the ears. On the other hand, the songwriting itself should be provide plenty of entertainment to fans of this genre.

VIOLET ETERNAL - Under the Violet Sun (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

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