Artist: FLASHBACK OF ANGER
Album: SPLINTERS OF LIFE (CD)

Year: 2009
Media type: CD

When dreams should become reality, there are many compromises to be made. But sometimes dreams become so real, that you feel as though you are in a dream. A paradox? Possibly. Yet when the two schoolfriends Matteo Bonini and Antonio Sigismondi dedicated themselves to their youthful dreams of making music, they didn't know that, a few years later, they would have a band, which had the makings of international notoriety. The Italian formation FLASHBACK OF ANGER are so far above others of their local scene in that the six lads have an incredibly good feeling for high quality, emotional songs and, in addition, play these at a technical level which make the rest of the neighbourhood bands pale in comparison. One can ignore all the clichees generally applied to Italian bands, looking instead of the higher niveau of groups such as Shadow Gallery, Symphony X, Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation and Sonata Arctica. It is music which straddles and masters complex, demanding passages and brilliant heaviness.

On their debut album, recorded in the popular High Gain Recording Studio in Hamburg, home of the production team of Arne Lakenmacher (Tour Manager of Amon Amarth and Nevermore), Dirk Schlдchter and Kai Hansen (both of Gamma Ray), the Italian sextet delivers songs full of passion, full of creativity, stylish melodies and just the right heaviness factor. "Splinters Of Life" will thrill all those music fans, which appreciate progressive and melodic elements in one well-balanced sound. Alternately arranged, with a crisp sound and songs, which get under your skin. "Splinters Of Life" gives the listener all this with every second it is playing. All the passion and perfect instrumental style of a band, which knows exactly what it wants and where it is going, come to the fore in songs such as "Off With My Heart", "All I Have” and the brilliant, spine-tingling "Back In The Nightmare”. The Cercato/Bonini guitar combo lays down a broad carpet of sound, which the rest of the band uses as a solid base to inject the well prepared songs with a healthy dose of positive metal feeling. Unwatered melodic-progressive Metal from a band whose name will be heard a lot in 2009.

TRACKLIST:

01. By The Gates Of My Dreams 1:04
02. All I Have 5:00
03. Time Can Answer 5:24
04. Stars 3:50
05. A Void Within Me 4:45
06. Splinters Of Life 7:45
07. Strange Illusion 3:44
08. Outer World 1:58
09. Back In The Nightmare 5:21
10. Off With My Heart 7:42
11. Flashback Of Anger 7:13

Total playing time 53:49

LINE-UP:

Alessio Gori - vocals, keyboards
Giulio Cercato - leadguitar
Matteo Bonini - rhythmguitar
Francesco Masini - bass
Emanuele Giorgetti - keyboards
Antonio Sigismondi - drums