Sinheresy are a very interesting Italian Metal band weighing in heftily here with their fourth album with close to the same line-up for all four. They’ve been through a few drummers in the course of their career, but the new guy for this release is Gabriele Boz (who is also a member of Inira with label-mates Frozen Crown’s guitarist Fabiola Bellomo), proving from the outset to be a worthy powerful addition to their ranks. Probably the most touted fact about Sinheresy is that they started out as a Nightwish tribute act, but actually sound absolutely nothing like the Finns on any of their four albums.
For Sinheresy plough a more Modern Melodic Heavy Metal furrow, drawing occasional similarities with Metalite, Beyond The Black, Dynazty, All Ends, Nemesea and Lacuna Coil. The latter comparison emphasised further by Sinheresy’s use of both male and female lead vocals, though they are most of the time clean sung. This is an album absolutely dripping in memorable vocal melodies, but musically very much guitar-led belying the Symphonic Metal tag that they are sometimes branded with, with keyboards only used for atmosphere and effect rather than blasting everything with overblown orchestration. The band maintain their heavy standpoint throughout the album, with Cecilia Petrini being given every opportunity to shine, whist her male counterpart gets plenty of chances to execute his varied vocal styles to lift the arrangements to extra levels. Needless to say the two vocalists work very well together and certainly make the most of each emotion that individual tracks convey.
The drums and bass thunder with power and purpose throughout the album, with the chunky, meaty guitars leading every song with dexterity and conviction. In amongst the memorable riffs, there’s some great moments of lead-work sprinkled in there too. Tracks 8, 9 and 10 are actually a, ‘Event Horizon’ trilogy type affair, the intro and outro tracks are about as symphonic as the band get, but it’s a nice idea to separate the tracks rather than make one longer song. The final part being a gorgeous short piano-led with vocals piece, which is as close as the band get to anything ballad related. These songs round out what is a very entertaining release indeed, showing the band forging their own identity and pushing their sound further with each album as the band mature. This isn’t the longest album you’ll hear this year, but this enables Sinheresy to deliver a filler-free album crammed with intensity and melody in equal measure.
(8/10 Andy Barker)
Leave a Reply