Sailing To Nowhere
To the Unknown
Bakerteam Records
2015
Sailing To Nowhere is an Italian melodic power metal band that was founded in 2013 by a group of young musicians with different musical influences, ranging from power metal to hard rock, and a strong desire to mix the hardest guitar sounds with elaborate melodies and plenty of atmospheres. So their press release states and I find no reason to principally disagree with that.
They do perform a not bad hybrid between power metal with a lot of hard rock influences. They also seem to feature, one of the former singers of Kaledon in their ranks, Marco Pallazi, along with a female singer, by the name of Veronica Bultrini, who’s not your typical angelic soprano, type of vocalists, but rather goes for a more straightforward rock approach. She’s not bad, but with this being the first recording of hers she seems to be a little rough in some places. The somewhat clean and clinical production, that has some pretty lousy sounding drums and lacks in having some bottom end, doesn’t aid them with the drumming almost naked and without any rich bass sounding rather annoyingly over the top of everything else. It’s not the end of all, but it’s one of the main problems with the album imho. The band has a bunch of pretty good ideas, (ie “Fallen Angel”) that thankfully don’t rely on cliché melodies, but the production and lack of experience, really holds them back in a pretty big way. There’s also an Anastasia cover of “Left Outside Alone”, plagued exactly by the same problems.
Given some time to develop and better production, they could prove to turn into some serious contender, as they are refreshingly different, than your average generic power metal band, but they still need to work quite hard to get there.
They do perform a not bad hybrid between power metal with a lot of hard rock influences. They also seem to feature, one of the former singers of Kaledon in their ranks, Marco Pallazi, along with a female singer, by the name of Veronica Bultrini, who’s not your typical angelic soprano, type of vocalists, but rather goes for a more straightforward rock approach. She’s not bad, but with this being the first recording of hers she seems to be a little rough in some places. The somewhat clean and clinical production, that has some pretty lousy sounding drums and lacks in having some bottom end, doesn’t aid them with the drumming almost naked and without any rich bass sounding rather annoyingly over the top of everything else. It’s not the end of all, but it’s one of the main problems with the album imho. The band has a bunch of pretty good ideas, (ie “Fallen Angel”) that thankfully don’t rely on cliché melodies, but the production and lack of experience, really holds them back in a pretty big way. There’s also an Anastasia cover of “Left Outside Alone”, plagued exactly by the same problems.
Given some time to develop and better production, they could prove to turn into some serious contender, as they are refreshingly different, than your average generic power metal band, but they still need to work quite hard to get there.