power

There are some genres that are harmonically blended together and others that aren’t… or bands/musicians who are trying to do so and are not doing it right. More or less, that’s the case with Radiance. That heavy metal, prog-power, symphonic, atmospheric, technical and experimental approach leaves much to be desired.
 
Firstly, there’s the poor and weak production. The poor sound quality of the digital promo makes it even worst. The truth is that this kind of production can easily be achieved in a home studio. I do not know if that’s the case here but it does sound like one.
 

EToS were one of my beloved melodic, atmospheric death metal bands back in the early 00s. Especially, after the amazing & their best (to date) album, “A Virgin and a Whore”, I was pretty sure that these guys were going to be huge. Unluckily, fate chose otherwise and they broke-up after a couple of years. Still, that album didn’t get the exposure and the publicity it deserved. I keep coming back to this CD even to this day and I still enjoy it as the first time. Superb work by any means.
 

Second release for the Italian progsters Odd Dimension and this time it is a concept album that’s dealing with the alienation of mankind when everything must be devastated in the name of progress.
 

Another newly formed band form Italy that’s not into power metal (that’s “weird” indeed!) but more into prog rock/metal music. The band was founded after the three original members, the bassist Enrico Sandri, (Utopia), the keyboardist Dario Di Pasquale (ZEN) & the vocalist/guitarist Riccardo Nardocci (solo) came together and decided to mix their different musical backgrounds and create some music from scratch.