Prog metal is back with a bang a with thunderous riff and menacing keyboards powering into Connections, a darker vocal intertwined with the staccato riffing and pounding drums all add to the obdurate feel. The song becomes more of a power ballad as the harder guitar and mighty vocal take more prominence. The ever classy vocal and snazzy guitar stop the song from veering to far towards the mediocrity of mainstream pop and the solo is just razor sharp without being too flashy (you’ve got to have some flashiness haven’t you?).įighting Time sees Heretic’s Dream slowing everything down again, lush vocals paired with a subtle acoustic guitar giving a suitably polished feel, the powerful chorus counterbalances the rest of the song with a rising, dominant guitar note and forceful duet from Francesca and Adrej. I love the fading in of the intro to Shockwave, another glossy slice of melodic rock with a serious pop edge to it as if someone has thrown Muse and U2 into the mix.
Need to take a step back and take a breath? No problem, Believing in You is an acoustic gem with cool guitar, silky vocals and floating pan pipes giving a pervading aura of peacefulness to the proceedings. Once more, the strong chorus works well with the rest of the track. Dreams Falling heads back to the heavier prog metal style of the first track, another, brilliant, slightly distorted riff and austere vocals (even a bit of growling thrown in) adding to the insistent edge that the song carries, nicely judged keyboards added to the mix in all the right places. Really cool solos with brilliant fretwork stand out and make them both super smooth tracks. The choruses are purely bombastic affairs, towering guitars backing the ever rising vocal perfectly. Chains of Blood and Behind the Mirror are much more rooted in the world of melodic metal, crunching guitar, swirling keyboards and pounding drums all combining before things take a more pared back approach with low key vocals and a nicely muted guitar. There is a really catchy chorus with that hard edged guitar always butting in, an appreciative raise of the eyebrows greets a nicely worked vocal and guitar section, the song closing out with another rocking riff and I like what I hear so far. Let us see if it contains the melodic mainstream sound and diverse influences that could see it shine against the musical mediocrity.Ī clever, distorted riff kicks in Outcasted before the track takes on a hypnotic feel, vocals swirling around your head, staccato guitar backing that haunting melody. This has garnered them an ever increasing fan base leading to the release of their debut album The Unexpected Move in 2012 and, now, in 2013 their new release, Walk the Time. A heavy gigging schedule has seen them play over 60 shows in 18 months and gained them a burgeoning reputation.
The line up consists of Francesca Di Ventura (lead vocals), Adrej Surace (lead guitar and backing vocals), Carlo Nicolucci (rhythm guitar), Jacopo Greci (bass) and Maurilio Di Stefano. Their music is hard rock, alternative, progressive and metal, combining unusual and complex rhythms with a fierce energy, making it unique. Heretic’s Dream are, nominally, a 5 piece prog band from London and Rome that cannot easily be labelled as playing any one type of rock music. Now, when a band tells me that they play a type of music that can’t be labelled, I tend to get a little suspicious, could it be that they have no true musical direction and, play a mish-mash of genres that doesn’t fit together in any way or form? Or, is it that the music they play is just so damn awful it doesn’t deserve to categorised as music in any sense of the word? In no uncertain sense, it is a dark art and not everyone can make it work, however, some bands manage to pull it off and can play a fluid mix of rock, metal, prog, goth and anything else that they can wave their magic wands at. Hot on the heels of Riseback and Leave’s Eyes come Heretic’s Dream. Well, this autumn, female fronted metal bands have become like London buses to your intrepid reporter, you wait for ages for one and then three turn up at once.
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