Kingcrow "Hopium"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Label: Season Of Mist
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: August 23, 2024
Tracklist

1. Kintsugi (3:53)

2. Glitch (3:56)

3. Parallel Lines (6:46)

4. New Moon Harvest (3:30)

5. Losing Game (5:28)

6. White Rabbit's Hole (6:55)

7. Night Drive (5:48)

8. Vicious Circle (4:21)

9. Hopium (8:24)

10. Come Through (Bonus Track) (4:21)

Total runtime: 53:27

Credits

Diego Marchesi - Vocals

Diego Cafolla - Guitars, Keys, Backing Vocals

Ivan Nastasi - Guitars, Backing Vocals

Riccardo Nifosì - Bass, Backing Vocals

Thundra - Drums, Percussions

   With

Vikram Shankar - Piano solo on "Hopium"

Produced by Diego Cafolla & Thundra Cafolla

Recorded by Diego Cafolla at Sound Under Pressure (Rome, Italy)

Mixed by Giampiero Ulacco at Holofram Studios (Francavilla al Mare, Italy)

Mastered by Marco Vannucci at Spitfire Mastering Studio (Italy)

Cover Art by Devilnax

Description/Reviews:

KINGCROW emerges once more from Italy's progressive rock forge with a legacy etched in eclectic sounds and emotional narrative. Their evolution is meticulously woven progressive rock, alternative ambiance, and metal, transcending mere genre labels.

With ‘Hopium’, KINGCROW delivers a poignant album that fuses profound introspection with the raw vitality of rock. Lyrics that dwell in existential quandaries meet melodies that pulse with life, encapsulating the band's journey through trials and resilience. This collection of aural stories is wrapped in musical precision that only KINGCROW can muster, an intricate escapade for the senses. ‘Hopium’ marks a zenith in KINGCROW's story, a manifesto of passion and a defiant stride into the auditory unknown.

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Kintsugi

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Kingcrow "The Persistence"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Label: Sensory Records (Laser’s Edge)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: September 7, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Drenched
2. Closer
3. Everything Goes
4. Folding Paper Dreams
5. The Persistence
6. Every Broken Piece Of Me
7. Devil's Got A Picture
8. Night's Descending
9. Father
10. Perfectly Imperfect
11. Timeshift Box [Live At ProgPower USA] *
12. Fading Out PT.III [Live At ProgPower USA] *
13. Phlegethon [Live At ProgPower USA] *
* 2xLP bonus track

Line-up: 
Diego Marchesi - Lead & backing vocals
Diego Cafolla - Guitar & backing vocals
Ivan Nastasi - Guitar & backing vocals
Thundra Cafolla - Drums & Percussions
Cristian Della Polla - Keyboards & Synths
Riccardo Nifosì - Bass
   With
Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation) - Vocals (8)

Description/Reviews: 

Describing Kingcrow today is quite a difficult task, but one could state that the influence of different kinds of music; progressive rock, alternative rock, ambient music, metal, and more are all present in the band's songs. With each release, they take a step further away from their original roots.

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The Persistence
Night's descending
Father
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Kingcrow “Eidos”

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Metal/Rock
Label: Sensory Records(Laser’s Edge)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 23, 2015
Tracklist: 
01. The Moth
02. Adrift
03. Slow Down
04. Open Sky
05. Fading Out Pt. IV
06. The Deeper Divide
07. On The Barren Ground
08. At The Same Pace
09. Eidos
10. If Only

Line-up: 
Diego Marchesi - Lead & backing vocals
Diego Cafolla - Guitar & backing vocals
Ivan Nastasi - Guitar & backing vocals
Thundra Cafolla - Drums & Percussions
Cristian Della Polla - Keyboards & Synths
Francesco D'Errico - Bass

Description/Reviews: 

Opening up with the pre-release single The Moth, the album quickly shows its base sound, an eclectic mixture of prog and metal, but not quite prog metal in the traditional sense. By showing instrumental capability without showing it off with unnecessary wankery, Kingcrow falls right in that special middle zone occupied by the likes of Porcupine Tree and Riverside.Though they do experiment with sounds, like on the techno-muffled Slow Down, they never sound as if they’re experimenting, all the work comes across as polished and professional. As to the concept, Slow Down also delivers the heart of it, a typical scenario of us as a race being too absorbed in our technology and being pulled in deeper and deeper. The depth of the concept will take many more listens for me to fully absorb, as most of the best concept albums do. 

 Read the full review at ladyobscure.com

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The Moth
At The Same Pace

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Kingcrow "In Crescendo"

Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock
Label: Sensory Records
Release date: February 12, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Right Before
2. This Ain’t Another Love Song
3. The Hatch
4. Morning Rain
5. The Drowning Line
6. The Glass Fortress
7. Summer ‘97
8. In Crescendo

Line-up: 
Diego Cafolla – guitars
Ivan Nastasi – guitars
Diego Marchesi – vocals
Thundra Cafolla – drums
Francesco D’Errico- bass
Cristian Della Polla – keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

While working in a mostly progressive metal direction in the earlier days, Kingcrow has increasingly expanded the scope of their sound to encompass elements of rock, nowadays rounded-out in a culmination of strong atmospheric component similar to Riverside, Porcupine Tree and Pink Floyd but also bearing a heavier, metallic semblance to Opeth and Dream Theater. This is boldly present on the band’s fifth studio full-length, In Crescendo, the new album encompassing nearly an hour over eight epic movements.

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Right Before

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