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Frontiers Music [Release date: 20.03.26]
What’s so attractive about Venus 5’s second album is its refusal to choose one discrete genre, sub-genre, whatever.
It dances around the fringes of pop metal, heavy metal and symphonic metal, all laced with tight knit melodic rock.
Lets just call it melodic metal.
It’s again produced by Aldo (Secret Sphere) Lonobile. His deftly constructed arrangements are never overpowering, each track’s production is similar but different. You hear what’s going on. You can pick out the constituent parts.
The band is five female vocalists. A bit like Girls Aloud, only louder.
With five vocalists there’s a whole lot of vocal switching going on. Not all of them are immediately identifiable, except maybe Tezza Persson (Hell In The Club) and Herma Of Sick’n’Beautiful.
The others, Karmen Kilnk, Jelena Milovanovic and Erina Seittlari seem to act as spokeswomen for the band.
The powerful melodic metal formula deployed in the opening pair of tracks tracks – the big, booming ‘March Of The Venus 5’, and ‘Like A Witch’, sinewy and uncompromising, is almost maintained across the album’s duration.
All the instruments and songwriting elements are smartly and economically marshalled by Lonobile. His high impact Melodic Metal, smoothed out in places, roughed up in others is handled with skill by his seasoned studio band, Gabriele Robotti (g) Antonio Agate (k) Andrea Buratto (b), Marco Lazzarini (d).
That’s especially noticeable on ‘Set Me Free’s unconventional harmonies and emotive framing. Lonobile’s brisk treatment creates a sonic image of bruised feelings and almost spent emotions, backed up to the hilt by velvet clad rhythms… a rubbery bass over a hard hit snare.
All that said the famous five seem to keep their best vocal performances for ‘Stereotypes’. An anthem with a message, neatly arranged and produced, with an irritatingly familiar melody.
The Symphonic surge of ‘Surrender’s chorus gives the album a push just when we began worrying it was losing momentum.
Elsewhere, ‘Winter On My Skin’ is more hard rock than metal. In a different world Annie Lennox would have recorded this one.
The album will attract fans of all the sub genres mentioned earlier. But ‘Take It From The Start’, the album’s big ballad, crosses genre lines. It just might crossover onto mainstream radio play, who knows. ****
Review by Brian McGowan
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