INCOMING CEREBRAL OVERDRIVE: Le Stelle – A Voyage Adrift

MATH-CORE PSICHEDELICO

Avendo visto questa nuova uscita della Supernatural Cat, notissima e pregiatissima etichetta italiana, non abbiamo saputo resistere alla tentazione di ascoltare questo lavoro. E ascoltandolo ci siamo resi conto che, probabilmente, si discosta da ciò di cui normalmente trattiamo. Siamo anche convinti, però, che su questo disco molti siano curiosi, perciò perché non recensirlo comunque?

Uscito qualche settimana fa (inizio maggio 2012) Le Stelle: A Voyage Adrift rappresenta il terzo capitolo per la band toscana. Si tratta di un concept album, basato sulla storia del viaggio tra le stelle raccontata dal diario di un astronauta del quale questo disco dovrebbe essere lo specchio in chiave musicale. Un viaggio assai tortuoso, mi viene da pensare ascoltandolo.

Già, perché questo album  tesse un’intricata e ordita trama tra il punk hardcore, l’hardocore metal, il death e il black, regalando qua e là venature psichedeliche.

Come dice l’intestazione di Doommabbestia? Heavy Psych? Ecco, appunto.

ICO

BIO:

Born at the dawn of the new millennium in Italy, I.C.O. (Incoming Cerebral Overdrive) are heavy to the core.

I.C.O first emerged with their debut Cerebral Heart (Myphonic Records, 2008) which was characterised by a ferocious energy that has stayed with them to this day. However it was their union with Supernatural Cat and the 2009 album Controverso where they defined and honed their unique sound into something all the more dynamic. Their style on one hand was contemporary, heavy, furious and dirty, whilst also acknowledging and embracing Italy’s progressive musical past. Controverso really was the first step in a more focused direction.

The end of the first decade of the new millennium marks a new step in the evolution of the project. The title of the new chapter is: Le Stelle: A Voyage Adrift. The concept, an imaginary, dark and lonely trip adrift discovered in a diary. Emotions of fear, anger and irrational excitement are expressed, waiting for a certain epilogue into desolation, a final annihilation in a cosmic fusion.

Sonically, this new album is a journey that intersects and expands in a huge, deep and at times, claustrophobic monolith. Heavy cavernous guitars with back-breaking riffs, multifaceted, effect laden vocals and rhythmic notes plunge into a psychedelic mix of unpredictable sounds of distress and madness that we, the recipient, can only succumb to.

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LE STELLE: A VOYAGE ADRIFT (2012)