DESERT RIDER: Echoes Of The Big Sand (Review)

STONER - HEAVY BLUES

Quanto è bello il panorama underground italiano, ricco di belle sorprese e band assolutamente di livello che a volte godono, purtroppo, di poca visibilità rispetto al loro valore.

I Desert Rider sono una band di Perugia nata nel 2012 che, dopo diversi problemi a livello di line-up, sforna il suo primo album a Febbraio del 2015 totalmente autoprodotto.

Nonostante i pochi anni di attività ed i problemi di formazione, la band arriva al primo lavoro sulla lunga distanza mettendo in luce una discreta maturità artistica, la quale mette in risalto doti che se sfruttate bene nel prossimo futuro, possono regalare delle belle soddisfazioni alla band.

"Echoes Of The Big Sand" ci riporta direttamente in quelle ambientazioni calde e polverose che caratterizzano da sempre il genere proposto dalla band, stoner ricco di riff, tiratissimo, senza fronzoli.

DESERT RIDER

BIO:

Desert Rider was born in February 2012 thanks to an idea from Mathias Traverso (electric guitar) and Francesco Gallinella (bass guitar). Within a few weeks, the band is completed by Alessandro Rizzuto (vocals) and Manuel Bos (drums). With this line-up, the band began to work on original stuff. Between May and June of 2012, the quartet records his first work, a self-produced demo of three tracks. While composing, the band starts his live activity , which was carried on from autumn 2012 to spring 2013 on various stages throughout center and northern Italy, allowing Desert Rider to receive the second prize in the contest " RockAge 2013", which was celebrated at the Urban Club, in Perugia. 

In June 2013 the band changes its line-up : Federico Marcantoni is the new drummer, in place of Manuel. This goes with a new composing period in which songwriting, sound and musical references undergo a significant change of approach that produces a shift to a stoner/doom metal with post-rock influences. In February 2014, the band recorded the "Human Masquerade " single, composed in spring 2013, which precedes the release of the band's first full-lenght, Echoes of the big sand, recorded in May/June 2014 and released in February 2015, due to line-up problems: in fact another shift in the band happens in November 2014, when Alessandro Rizzuto decides to leave the band; plus, Federico Marcantoni and band's routs divide. In January 2015 Luca Paparelli (drums) and Davide Marrazzo (vocals) join the band.

The band is now working to be live on stage in short time, scheduling shows in Italy during all 2015.

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ECHOES OF THE BIG SAND (2015)