Hevidence
Nobody’s Fault
Frontiers Music Srl
2016
The flurry of notes on the guitar solo (!) that opens this album took me by surprise, thinking that this would be some neoclassical album, but then I saw it came from Frontiers and by the time it was over, something between Glenn Hughes, Chris Katena and solo-Soto came blasting out of the speakers.
This is the brainchild of guitarist Diego Reali, who started his career in DGM, ages ago, along with a bunch of also runs from the Italian scene like Andrea Arcangeli (DGM, Noveria, Solisia) on bass, Corrado Quoiani on vocals and Emiliano Bonini on drums, replacing his drumming brother and changing the initial band from Evidence to Hevidence for no apparent reason. The virtuosic solos here and there tend to pull this towards Yngwie territory at times and overall it’s not terrible, but, there’s a bit of confusion over what exactly the band wants to do, as between songs or even within them, funk, hard rock and metal elements seem to take primacy quite randomly… so a little more defined character for the songs would help the band sound a little more focused and not all over the place. Still worth checking out if you like melodic rock.
This is the brainchild of guitarist Diego Reali, who started his career in DGM, ages ago, along with a bunch of also runs from the Italian scene like Andrea Arcangeli (DGM, Noveria, Solisia) on bass, Corrado Quoiani on vocals and Emiliano Bonini on drums, replacing his drumming brother and changing the initial band from Evidence to Hevidence for no apparent reason. The virtuosic solos here and there tend to pull this towards Yngwie territory at times and overall it’s not terrible, but, there’s a bit of confusion over what exactly the band wants to do, as between songs or even within them, funk, hard rock and metal elements seem to take primacy quite randomly… so a little more defined character for the songs would help the band sound a little more focused and not all over the place. Still worth checking out if you like melodic rock.