Faro "Luminance"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Label: Andromeda Relix 
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 1, 2020 (digital), October 11, 2020 (CD)
Tracklist

1. Pure (4:08) 

2. Fragment (4:10) 

3. December (4:19) 

4. Lucas (4:11) 

5. Tears (3:35) 

6. Down (7:20) 

7. Autumn (3:18) 

8. Luminance (3:44) 

Total Time 34:45

Line-up

Rocco De Simone: vocals, keyboards

Angelo Troiano: guitars, keyboards, bass, program

   With

Fabrizio Blasco: guitars and other instruments

Michele Santoleri: drums

Description/Reviews:

Faro exists in that alternative Metal niche occupied by bands like BLACKFIELD, PORCUPINE TREE, and A PERFECT CIRCLE, where riffs and vocal harmonies are prioritized over noodling and instrumental mastery. The guitars sound darker and crunchier than most Prog, but what really sells this sound is the vocals.

Vocalist Rocco De Simon is harmonizing with himself a perfect fourth down almost the entire album and it adds a really neat layer to the music. He never goes particularly high in his range and the low harmony gives the whole album this air of darkness and depression. There’s few vocalists I could compare this guy to, sometimes he almost sounds like Todd La Torre from QUEENSRŸCHE, sometimes he almost sounds like the late David Gold from WOODS OF YPRES, though perhaps a little less melodramatic and with the upper vocal harmony emphasized more in the mix. Really though Rocco has a pretty unique voice and I think it really works for this style of music.

Read the full review by Ian Yeara at metal-temple.com

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