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│ METAL CLASSICS ARCHIVE │
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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.Jan-04-2015 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Metal Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........2014 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......anthem Songs........12 ║ │
│║ Covers.......Yes Url... www.mastercastle.net ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Mastercastle Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : Enfer (De La Bibliotheque NatiLabel : Scarlet ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ The last Mastercastle release I heard was ║ │
│║ Dangerous Diamonds, but their formula remains ║ │
│║ pretty much exactly the same on their newest, ║ │
│║ Enfer (De la Bibliotheque Nationale). The duo of ║ │
│║ founding shredder Pier Gonella and singer ║ │
│║ Giorgia Gueglio remain a guilty pleasure for me ║ │
│║ due to the poppy nature of their music, but ║ │
│║ there's definitely some pleasure to be had ║ │
│║ there, since much like their previous albums, ║ │
│║ Enfer has a few excellent songs mixed in with ║ │
│║ other rather paint-by-numbers ones. ║ │
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│║ The Castle starts off with the sort of melody ║ │
│║ that immediately calls to mind Mastercastle: ║ │
│║ Mid-tempo, with choppy effects that sound a bit ║ │
│║ like they come from keyboard, but are, I think, ║ │
│║ from Gonella's guitar. The bass and drum kit ║ │
│║ don't get a lot of room to do much other than ║ │
│║ back the guitar work, and might as well be ║ │
│║ synthesizers for all the room the production ║ │
│║ gives them; but the guitars, of course, are ║ │
│║ superb, a combination of traditional power metal ║ │
│║ shredding and jazz-like fugue solos that flutter ║ │
│║ across the songs every chance they get. ║ │
│║ Gueglio's voice is overly sharp, even when she ║ │
│║ tries to tone it down -- she really only has one ║ │
│║ volume and tone setting and Let Me Out's chorus ║ │
│║ suffers from it -- but every time the song lets ║ │
│║ her voice crank up to that loud setting, she ║ │
│║ nails it. Like almost all of Mastercastle's ║ │
│║ songs, Naked and Pirates favor a steady but ║ │
│║ rather boring mid-tempo rhythm with little going ║ │
│║ on in them outside of the guitar to give Gonella ║ │
│║ and Gueglio the most space to do their thing, ║ │
│║ and though the verses are usually pretty hard to ║ │
│║ see much value in, the chorus melodies are where ║ │
│║ the strength of the songwriting gets focused. ║ │
│║ The title track has a more melodic and ║ │
│║ sentimental sound to it, some synthesizers and a ║ │
│║ softer overdrive used on the guitar, with ║ │
│║ Gueglio making more than the usual effort to ║ │
│║ make her voice a little softer -- or so it ║ │
│║ seemed to me. ║ │
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│║ All that effort at being softer doesn't succeed ║ │
│║ much, though. Both the guitar and vocals are ║ │
│║ technically excellent but are so sharp, hard, ║ │
│║ and unvaried that after an extended period of ║ │
│║ time the listener might start to get a headache. ║ │
│║ What's more, some songs don't seem to have much ║ │
│║ point in their existence, such as Straight to ║ │
│║ the Bone, the longest and least interesting ║ │
│║ track on the album, or Behind the Veil, a slow ║ │
│║ ballad with a melody that doesn't go anywhere, ║ │
│║ which was a bullet they often dodged in ballads ║ │
│║ from previous albums such as Jade Star. Venice ║ │
│║ goes far towards redeeming this losing streak, ║ │
│║ with a higher speed, more varied verse, and a ║ │
│║ return to the kind of melodic chorus that the ║ │
│║ band tends to be good at. ║ │
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│║ Mastercastle has released better albums, but ║ │
│║ fans are unlikely to be disappointed by this, ║ │
│║ and I continue to appreciate Giorgia Gueglio's ║ │
│║ voice (as long as it's in bite-sized portions) ║ │
│║ when listening to Enfer. This is a somewhat ║ │
│║ unique female-fronted power metal band in its ║ │
│║ combination of heavy-duty shredding with ║ │
│║ matching female vocals, and its latest still ║ │
│║ deserves a listen or two. ║ │
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│║ LINE-UP ║ │
│║ Giorgia Gueglio: vocals ║ │
│║ Pier Gonella: guitars ║ │
│║ Steve Vawamas: bass ║ │
│║ Francesco La Rosa: drums ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - The Castle [04:20] │
│ 02 - Let Me Out [04:18] │
│ 03 - Naked [03:52] │
│ 04 - Pirates [04:12] │
│ 05 - Enfer [04:33] │
│ 06 - Straight To The Bone [04:43] │
│ 07 - Throne Of Time [03:10] │
│ 08 - Behind The Veil [03:48] │
│ 09 - Venice [03:44] │
│ 10 - Coming Back [02:54] │
│ 11 - Cat-house (Bonus Track) [04:59] │
│ 12 - Alone (Bonus Track) [03:54] │
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│ ║ Greetings To: ║ │
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│ Too all people who contributes to make this │
│ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │
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