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Due on December 10th, on all the best music platforms, on Wanikiya Record’s shop in Japan and on the label’s showcase on Crash Sound Distribution, the new self-titled album by TAURUS INFERNO! An album full of grit, rock, metal, unique atmospheres and much more….. Get ready to enter the world of Taurus Inferno????
Taurus Inferno was born in 2016 from the collaboration of Camillo Venturi on guitar and vocals along with Stefano “Zven” Doretti on drums.
Later, Antonio Ghisu was added on bass, closing the lineup into a classic trio in “old school heavy metal” style.
Indeed, this is the style that the Tuscan trio tries to pursue. Pieces that hark back to classic English and European heavy bands of the 1980s such as Black Sabbath, Venom, Mercyful Fate, just to name three.
Even the way of playing and recording the pieces have well-defined lines that avoid the use of modern instrumentation and current sounds, preferring live recordings and minimal use of effects for both guitar and bass. Lots of amplifier “gain” and a hint of chorus when needed, everything else is superfluous to ensure a direct and deliberately “dirty” sound to refer precisely to sounds of yesteryear.
English lyrics and rather obscure riffs create an atmosphere that at times harks back to early Celtic Frost, at other times to early Venom, always, however, with a fairly defined melodic line because in any case the songs must always be “catchy” .
The production of the first album containing eight tracks was rather quick, taking into account that the songs were all written and recorded in 2021, in fact although the lineup has been around since 2016, the three had suffered a four-year setback due to extra music commitments.
The debut album was recorded at the Orange Studio of Stefano Doretti in the province of Pistoia, the band’s drummer and sound engineer.
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