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Review: 'Seven Impale'
'Contrapasso'   

-  Album: 'Contrapasso' -  Label: 'Karisma Records'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '16th September 2016'

Our Rating:
Seven Impale managed to impress in prog circles with their 2014 debut, ‘City of the Sun’, and its successor, ‘Contrapasso’ is nothing if not ambitious. It’s also uber-proggy, in the old-school prog sense. These guys know how to make it big, bold, and theatrical. Leaping, pirouetting and bounding exuberantly front one mode to another, one segment to another, each song is a musical epyllion. The structural complexity not only of each song, but each section within each song, is often quite bewildering.

There are some wig-outs and grooves to be found amongst the immense dramatics, which find them at times coming on like King Crimson fronted by Jim Morrison… but amidst the honking sax jigs and swirling keyboards there are some deep, heavy basslines and gritty riff-centric workouts to be found here, too, and the album’s theatricality is matched by its driving grooves. If, at times, it all seems a bit much – and truth be told, it does – it’s worth keeping sight of the band’s extraordinary versatility and ambition. If it wasn’t extravagant and over the top, it’d be falling short.

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  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Seven Impale - Contrapasso