Four years that 'Fabio Lione' had not released a new album with his new project 'Eternal Idol', and it is done with 'Renaissance', which has seen a change of line up since she is now the singer 'Claudia Layline' ('Serenade') and drummer 'Enrico Fabris' who officiates instead, respectively, of 'Giorgia Colleluori' and his brother 'Camillo Colleluori' both present on the first album 'The Unrevealed Secret'. We therefore find a fairly classic symphonic metal with the little extra of having a couple of singers, and which singers, because everyone knows the talent of 'Fabio Lione' but it must be said that with 'Claudia Layline', the couple works wonderfully and brings another dimension to the whole as can formations like 'Visions Of Atlantis' or like the collaboration between 'Anette Olzon' and 'Russell Allen' in 'Worlds Apart'.
'IntoThe Darkness' opens the album with an epic and symphonic vibe reminiscent of the beginning of this style in the late 90s, 'Claudia Layline' using her lyrical register and 'Fabio Lione', equal to him, bringing his theatrical side, making of 'Thomas Vikström' with 'Therion', then 'Black Star' which follows, takes us on a catchy track with a heady chorus which should be well received in concert, just like 'Dark Eclipse', more classic, for a new memorable mid-tempo. We come back to the 'Nightwish' symphonic with 'Without Fear', a more refined composition that alternates intensity and softness, the double pedal alongside a refined section and which has beautiful vocal arrangements, then the melancholy ballad break 'Away From Heaven' follows, well placed in the middle of the album and highlighting the vocal duo of Claudia and Fabio and 'Not the Same', more vigorous, continuing on a slow tempo and we say to ourselves that 'Fabio Lione' has certainly listened a little too much to 'Confortably Numb' in its youth because the finale is completely modeled on this addictive melody of the 'Floyds' which has been around the world. Back to symphonic with the melodic jewel 'The Edge' which highlights 'Claudia Layline' who provides the vocal section alone, then, 'Flying Over You', always so melodic with this time, a solo performance by 'Fabio Lione' and follows 'Lord Without Soul' which recalls the catchy tracks of 'Tarja' which give an irresistible desire to move. And it is with the eponymous 'Renaissance', a long title that the album ends in beauty with a good summary of the whole, bringing together all by itself the symphonic and the epic in a theatrical atmosphere with variations of intensity and tempos, the orchestral and vocal arrangements being remarkable.
In summary, unsurprisingly, 'Fabio Lione' shows that he continues to be a key player in the symphonic metal scene by offering us an album filled with beautiful melodies and addicting choruses and 'Renaissance' will certainly make happies, in this Christmas period, for all the followers of a classical symphonic metal which recalls the precursors of this style in the end of the 90s... | |
