Bluerose - Darkness And Light

[Stefan]

From Dangerdog:

 

Yet another Italian band to consider at the end of 2013: Bluerose and their second effort, Darkness and Light. They're also another band that straddles or blurs the line between melodic hard rock and heavy metal.

Bluerose:: between the pillars.

The rock groove is definitely apparent, but it's clearly wrapped up in the heaviness of metal, notably in the riffage, strong drums, and sharp guitar solos. The guitar work of Giuliano Soranno is quite impressive for the simple reason that he doesn't try to get clever. He seems to know that his leads should both contribute to the whole and surprise and thrill the listener's ears when they're brought to the forefront. Exceptional examples of this is found at the end of Leaving You and Darkness and Light. Another Bluerose strength is the voice of Riccardo Scaramelli; he's simply a rock/metal good singer, melodic and clear. Even better, he doesn't fall into the traps of either dirty or screamo vocals which occupy much of modern rock.

But there's nothing really modern about Bluerose. This is basically straight up classic melodic metal with a rock groove, and that's a good thing. Some may be disappointed by the length of the album, eight songs at about 37 minutes, when others are pushing 10 in the 45 minute range. Yet there's much to be said for sleek efficiency. Besides the aforementioned songs, check out both On My Way and The Land of the Light. Recommended.

 

 

 

Tracklisting:

• 1 Darkness and Light
• 2 Reloaded
• 3 Run
• 4 On My Way
• 5 I Know
• 6 Leaving You
• 7 Rock Your Soul
• 8 The Land of the Light
• 9 Darkness and Light (Radio Edit)

 

[Dead Planet]

Oh yes...very nice...I hope it won't be difficult to track down...

[Leykis101]

Fuck! I thought this was going to be someone finally posting an announcement that the 3 Blue Rose albums were finally going to be issued on disc! these bands need to either hire someone, or do themselves, but they need to research their band name before they decide to post it and use it, fuck, now I got all worked up for nothing.

[JamesEagle]

From Dangerdog:

 

Yet another Italian band to consider at the end of 2013: Bluerose and their second effort, Darkness and Light. They're also another band that straddles or blurs the line between melodic hard rock and heavy metal.

Bluerose:: between the pillars.

The rock groove is definitely apparent, but it's clearly wrapped up in the heaviness of metal, notably in the riffage, strong drums, and sharp guitar solos. The guitar work of Giuliano Soranno is quite impressive for the simple reason that he doesn't try to get clever. He seems to know that his leads should both contribute to the whole and surprise and thrill the listener's ears when they're brought to the forefront. Exceptional examples of this is found at the end of Leaving You and Darkness and Light. Another Bluerose strength is the voice of Riccardo Scaramelli; he's simply a rock/metal good singer, melodic and clear. Even better, he doesn't fall into the traps of either dirty or screamo vocals which occupy much of modern rock.

But there's nothing really modern about Bluerose. This is basically straight up classic melodic metal with a rock groove, and that's a good thing. Some may be disappointed by the length of the album, eight songs at about 37 minutes, when others are pushing 10 in the 45 minute range. Yet there's much to be said for sleek efficiency. Besides the aforementioned songs, check out both On My Way and The Land of the Light. Recommended.

 

 

 

Tracklisting:

• 1 Darkness and Light
• 2 Reloaded
• 3 Run
• 4 On My Way
• 5 I Know
• 6 Leaving You
• 7 Rock Your Soul
• 8 The Land of the Light
• 9 Darkness and Light (Radio Edit)

 

 

Good song!

[Leykis101]

I just noticed this, and wanted to add my 1 cent of shame,

 

"They're also another band that straddles or blurs the line between melodic hard rock and heavy metal."

 

Maybe true, but they're also another band the straddles or blurs the line between originality and ripping previous bands in history off! and following another recent trend, I am seeing become more and more prevalent, is that of the extensive research done before picking the band name, I mean really it's not that hard to do, and with the invention of the internet, there really is NO! reason for it at all, we saw it in the mid 90's, when rap artist started snatching up the "coolest and most gangsta names" and we were left hesitating before we ordered that new Lynch Mob CD on our import list, at least they started adding the very sophisticated and clever DA Lynch Mob and letting us all sleep better, they all began to do this, a good majority of those bands, were R&B bands, and they simply altered a letter or two, thus making it easy to differentiate between the 2, I have recently seen a plethora of bands(posted on here) who carry the same name as a previous band, and my initial reaction was believing the post was about the original band, upon reading and discovering it wasn't, It kind of pisses me off a little, not because of any personal reason, simply because it is kind of disrespectful, I dont care who the band was, if they sucked, or what, theres just something about using a name, that has already been taken, has somewhat of a following, and saying fuck them, our music and band is more important then that band, we are more deserving of the name, so we will use it, Im sure im way off, but thats just my feeling.