<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940</id><updated>2012-02-01T05:33:09.928-08:00</updated><category term='Doommantia'/><category term='Alice Lizza'/><category term='The Sun'/><category term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category term='Metalearth.de'/><category term='Terrorverlag'/><category term='Intercity'/><category term='Acidi Viola'/><category term='Metal-inside.de'/><category term='Article'/><category term='Heavyimpact.net'/><category term='Mariosmetalmania.com'/><category term='France'/><category term='Gothronic.com'/><category term='Heavyworlds.com'/><category term='Passzio.hu'/><category term='Zwaremetalen.com'/><category term='Metalitalia'/><category term='Castaneda'/><category term='Sodapop.it'/><category term='Rock A Rolla'/><category term='Metalcry.com'/><category term='Barone Del Male'/><category term='Finland'/><category term='Heavy-metal.de'/><category term='Sludgeswamp'/><category term='Resurrection-Dead.de'/><category term='Rock Hard'/><category term='Alternativenation.de'/><category term='Lordsofmetal.nl'/><category term='Stoner Hive'/><category term='Legacy'/><category term='Alice In Wonderland'/><category term='Papercuts.fr'/><category term='Metal-zone.it'/><category term='Sludgelord'/><category term='Italy'/><category term='Metalglory'/><category term='EUTK'/><category term='Metal Wave'/><category term='Fuori dal Mucchio'/><category term='Italiancore Magazine'/><category term='Metalinside'/><category term='Burnyourears.de'/><category term='Aristocrazia Webzine'/><category term='Rock Impressions'/><category term='Metal-mayhem.co.uk'/><category term='Dagheisha'/><category term='Metal Hammer Uk'/><category term='Music-scan.de'/><category term='Ondarock.it'/><category term='metal.aschaffenburg.de'/><category term='Stordisco.blogspot.com'/><category term='Rockambula'/><category term='Stonerrock.hu'/><category term='Top Album'/><category term='Ride With The Devil'/><category term='Stormbringer.at'/><category term='Spain'/><category term='Metalzone.dk'/><category term='Musicinbelgium.net'/><category term='Rockit'/><category term='metalteamuk.net'/><category term='Into The Pit Magazine'/><category term='Headbang.it'/><category term='Noize Italia'/><category term='Magmusic.it'/><category term='Psychotropic Zone'/><category term='Metal-district.de'/><category term='Italian Album Of The Year'/><category term='Neuroprison'/><category term='Netherlands'/><category term='Rock and roll army'/><category term='Bleeding4metal.de'/><category term='Rockerilla'/><category term='Hungary'/><category term='Live Report'/><category term='Fanzine'/><category term='Denmark'/><category term='Review'/><category term='Austria'/><category term='Umberto Palazzo'/><category term='Tinnitus-mag.de'/><category term='Greece'/><category term='Rumore'/><category term='Pure Metal'/><category term='Maktub'/><category term='Interview'/><category term='USA'/><category term='Born Again Nihilist'/><category term='Serbia'/><category term='Metal Hammer Italy'/><category term='Kronic.it'/><category term='Sounds2move.de'/><category term='Metalnewsuk.net'/><category term='Hardsounds.it'/><category term='Nerdsattack.net'/><category term='The-pit.de'/><category term='Metallus'/><category term='Alone Music'/><category term='Live'/><category term='Taxi-driver.it'/><category term='Perkele.it'/><category term='Slam Alternative Music Magazine'/><category term='Stoned Sun Vibrations'/><category term='Come my fanatics'/><category term='Xerox Militia'/><category term='Ondalternativa'/><category term='Laestadea.com'/><category term='Uk'/><category term='Zippo'/><category term='Metal.de'/><category term='Theobelisk.net'/><category term='Metalnews.de'/><category term='Belgium'/><category term='Metalunderground.com'/><category term='Deep Cycloid'/><category term='Visions'/><category term='Shapeless.com'/><category term='Osservatoriesterni.com'/><category term='Silentscreamzine.com'/><category term='Rawandwild.com'/><category term='Facce Nuove'/><category term='Imperiumi.net'/><category term='Stereoinvaders.com'/><category term='Adequacy.net'/><category term='Informazionemetal'/><category term='Germany'/><category term='Storia della Musica'/><category term='Audiodrome.it'/><category term='metalliville.co.uk'/><category term='Metal Maniac'/><category term='Stonerheadletgrooveyourbrainstonight'/><category term='Powermetal.de'/><category term='Balkanrock.com'/><category term='Italiadimetallo.it'/><category term='Thailand'/><category term='Rockinspain'/><category term='Ireland'/><category term='Undergroundattack.it'/><title type='text'>ZIPPO &gt; Maktub</title><subtitle type='html'>Here&amp;#39;s an overview of Zippo&amp;#39;s reviews, interviews and articles. Read what they say about us...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>138</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-5039572502517278651</id><published>2012-02-01T05:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T05:33:09.946-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stoner Hive'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Netherlands'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'STONER HIVE' (Netherlands)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;4/5&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;It happens as it is written. I’ve never been one to hide my love for the heaviness of the riff, the bands that provide it and the different genres they may belong to. But the Italian five-piece going by the name Zippo is not an easy taste to acquire. Their first two records Ode To Maximum from 2006 and The Road To Knowledge from 2008 were already highly progressive and experimental sludge adventures. Intensely dynamic and utterly shifting between desert stoner and studio metal, heavy and hard in every way. When I saw the title of their new album released last year I was giddy with glee like a sixteen-year-old cheerleader looking to get her cherry popped. Maktub: the old Arabic proverb for ‘It Is Written’. And before we end up with a rant about Taoism, Alchemic laws and Hopi tales to counter the sixteen-year-old cheerleader remark, let’s us quickly go forth with the music. On their new record the Zippo masters have taken their progressive roots to an almost mathematical level and managed to keep even this; slightly psychedelic. A little breathing space added from here to there makes it all sound less clustered and gives the brutal riffs afterwards that extra barbaric feel. Emotional vocals, technical bass-work and excellent guitar-lines take you on a lengthy almost mythical journey and speak of what was known from the start. It’s not the destination but the journey towards it that counts…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joop Konraad&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://stonerhive.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;http://stonerhive.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-5039572502517278651?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/5039572502517278651/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-stoner-hive-netherlands.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5039572502517278651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5039572502517278651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-stoner-hive-netherlands.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;STONER HIVE&apos; (Netherlands)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-667033833243229003</id><published>2012-02-01T05:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T05:28:03.595-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ride With The Devil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'RIDE WITH THE DEVIL' (USA)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"&gt;I love a good 'guest appearance' on an album. Beastie Boys and Kerry King, The Prodigy and Tom Morello, hell even Ray Davis with Metallica. When it works its great, when it doesn't... Well then you just have a kinda of Soulfly and Fred Durst scenario on your hands and no one wants that. Again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"&gt;Fortunately for Italian 5 piece stoner doom outfit Zippo, they landed quite a power house of a name, within the stoner rock community at least - one Mr Ben Ward. Maybe not a house hold name but for all of you who are currently squinting at this with a quizzical look on your face he's the hairy tattooed chap who fronts the might Orange Goblin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So they must have a fair bit of talent, or at least some good contacts to land a guest like that you'd think right? Well, yeah you'd be pretty accurate to be fair. Like bit of a mix of A Perfect Circle meets Machine Head, they admittedly wouldn't really be to my taste usually, but Zippo have kind of put a bit of a different spin on things. Like a reinvented industrial kind of sound with more melancholia and a distinct classic desert rock sort of mysticism intertwined within the riffs. Really sort of strange and eerie at times it doesn't quite slip into the label of 'prog' but it is none the less entirely unique. Or at least unique to me, being as I've on the whole never really ventured too deeply into the realms of the industrial scene. There are elements there that do ring clear of a touch of Maynard James Keenan, which does pain me to say as I personally can't stand the man, but alas I can somewhat recognise his talent within the aforementioned genre. Extremely well produced and polished the album is a blindingly good effort regardless of what style you want to label it. Definitely worth checking out even if on the face of things it may not sound like your cup of tea. But for anyone who even in the slightest bit a Tool or A Perfect Circle fan... Well I'd put money on it being a sure fire hit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;~Jay&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ridewiththedevil.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;http://ridewiththedevil.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-667033833243229003?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/667033833243229003/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-ride-with-devil-usa.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/667033833243229003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/667033833243229003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-ride-with-devil-usa.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;RIDE WITH THE DEVIL&apos; 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text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;intothepitmagazine@yahoo.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-451634391983056396?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/451634391983056396/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-into-pit-magazine-thailand.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/451634391983056396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/451634391983056396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-into-pit-magazine-thailand.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;INTO THE PIT MAGAZINE&apos; (Thailand)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sAD3vnTVpK8/Tyk4oesAztI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/7CU4b1ZiRIA/s72-c/Into+The+Pit+8+Cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-238989153700325526</id><published>2012-02-01T04:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T04:48:11.494-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hardsounds.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'HARDSOUNDS.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;87/100&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Il dischetto del quale ci apprestiamo a decantare le lodi è un vero e proprio viaggio che ci porterà a visitare i brulli deserti americani (grazie alla componente stoner, soprattutto in&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Simum"&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;sotto effetto peyote), o le verdeggianti e lussuriose lande inglesi (definite dal lato progressive/psichedelico), commistionando tali visioni con il crossover/alternative degli anni ‘90 che ha avuto trai suoi purveyors gli&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Stone Temple Pilots&lt;/b&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Soundgarden&lt;/b&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Alice In Chains&lt;/b&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Jane's Addiction&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Man Of Theory"&lt;/i&gt;, con l'aggiunta di massicce dosi post metal in&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"The Personal Legend"&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;e&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"The Omens"&lt;/i&gt;), ed un pò di suoni pesanti a là&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Mastodon.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Secondo parto su Subsounds Records, scelta alquanto desueta in quanto l'etichetta romana è votata perlopiù a sonorità industrial, noise, postcore et similia, ma se il manager ha scelto di metterli sotto contratto è perché già dal precedente disco (recensito addirittura sul britannico The Sun) aveva fiutato oltre alle potenzialità intrinseche anche la loro capacità di cambiare pelle, mantenendo sempre un songwriting di eccelso livello ed un caleidoscopio di riferimenti che la taggano quale band di elevato standard qualitativo. Prodotto da Victor Love (Dope Stars Inc) e masterizzato da sua maestà James Plotkin (Old Lady Driver, Khanate, Sunno)), Isis), il suono che ne deriva non poteva essere migliore viste le cure a cui è stato affidato; i pescaresi si circondano di ospiti d'onore grazie ai quali rendono la proposta ancor più variata, come se ce ne fosse bisogno, (Luca Mai, sax degli Zu dona sperimentazione al finale di&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Simum"&lt;/i&gt;), e Ben Ward (spoken word su&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Man Of Theory"&lt;/i&gt;) ugola degli Orange Goblin. I brani&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"Caravan To Your Destiny"&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;e&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;"We, People's Heart"&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;sono dei veri hit da classifica (ricordano molto da vicino gli Stone Temple Pilots di 'Core'); superba la prova vocale di Dave che spazia dall'aggressivo all'evocativo, al graffiante, senza mai scadere nel ridondante, ma aggiungendo frecce al suo arco ad ogni traccia; ci chiediamo quando e se li ascolteremo in rotazione su Virgin Radio, o altre radio mainstream votate al rock.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Ivan Fanelli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;www.hardsounds.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-238989153700325526?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/238989153700325526/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-hardsoundsit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/238989153700325526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/238989153700325526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-hardsoundsit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;HARDSOUNDS.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-7863891431346712693</id><published>2012-02-01T04:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T04:17:07.044-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Serbia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Balkanrock.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'BALKANROCK.COM' (Serbia)</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;4,5/5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Maktub (مكتب), arapska reč koja se koristi u alhemiji a znači „zapisano je“. Imajući to u vidu ne čudi što je stub ovog albuma u tekstualnom smislu sudbina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Treći album benda iz Peskare pod ovim čudnim imenom muzički nastavlja ono što su prethodna dva albuma započela. Na „Ode to maximum“ smo mogli da čujemo mlad i neiskusan bend sa dosta potencijala koji je dobrim delom iskorišćen na drugom „The road to knowledge“ baziranom na knjizi Karlosa Kastanjede „Učenje Don Huana“ . Na „Maktubu“ zato imamo svirački jako kvalitetan bend koji uspešno kombinuje retro zvuk stoner metala sa progresivnim post metal zvukom začinjenim doomom. Zbog toga je sviranje tehnički kvalitetnije u odnosu da stoner rifove ali taman toliko da ne pređe u progresivno drljanje i iživljavanje na instrumentima. Produkcija je zrelija u odnosu na ranije radove a jedan od razloga za to je taj što je mastering radio James Plotkin koji je sarađivao sa bendovima Khanate, Sunn O))) i Isis.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Vokali Davida Straccionea zvuče neverovatno i savršeno se uklapaju u ambijentalni okvir muzike. Smiren, ozbiljan i uverljiv glas kao da ne pripadaju ovom dvadesetpetogodišnjaku. Prava naracija kroz pevanje. Ako tome dodamo Isusovski izgled na bini jasno je da ovaj čovek uspešno kanališe sve emocije Zippa. Već sam pomenuo sudbinu. Na ovom albumu oni joj prilaze kao nečem dobrom što nikako ne sme da obeshrabri čoveka. Tekstovi poseduju mističnu dozu ali ne toliko da ne može da se razume šta poručuju. Potraga za samoostvarenjem, pustinja, nalaženje mira i jedinstvo sa svetom samo su neki od motiva u tekstovima.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Nije mi baš jasno zašto su se odlučili za ovakvo ime benda. Poprilično je teško nabasati na njih po Googl-u i YouTube-u a da pre toga niste videli 100 upaljača. Nije problem kada znate šta tačno tražite. Ali ako ćemo već porediti bend sa upaljačem čak i nema velikih razlika. Muzika Zippa tinja poput plamena upaljača na vetru. A kad vetar stane vatra se pokazuje u svom punom sjaju i veličini. Maktub curi lagano poput peska u peščanom satu ali brzo iscuri pa tako morate da pustite album ponovo da još jednom proklizi kroz vas. Pustinja krije odgovore. I bez obzira što nam je sudbina podelila loše karte mi igramo sa njima. A dobar blef može daleko da odvede...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Aleksandar Nikolić&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://balkanrock.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;balkanrock.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-7863891431346712693?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/7863891431346712693/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-balkanrockcom-serbia.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7863891431346712693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7863891431346712693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-balkanrockcom-serbia.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;BALKANROCK.COM&apos; (Serbia)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-7321289321737349796</id><published>2012-02-01T04:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T04:13:01.003-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metal.aschaffenburg.de'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'METAL-ASCHAFFENBURG' (Germany)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;13/15&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"&gt;Die italienische Wüste&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Dass Stoner Rock nicht immer aus der Wüste Amerikas kommen muss, beweisen Zippo aus dem schönen Italien. „Maktub“ ist ihr drittes Album. Schnell wird klar, mit was man es hier zu tun hat. Sludge Metal der Marke Mastodon, Baroness oder Black Tusk. Zippo versehen ihre Musik jedoch mit ein wenig mehr verspielten und versteckten Melodien. Nach dem straighten, eröffnenden „The Personal Legend“, mit seinen gängigen dreieinhalb Minuten, haben alle sieben Lieder des Albums Überlänge. Trotz der etwas längeren Spielzeit des Restmaterials, werden diese Lieder nicht langweilig und kommen immer wieder mit neuen Ideen um die Ecke. „The Omens“ beispielsweise, welches mit einem ungewöhnlich ruhigen und atmosphärischen Mittelteil aufwartet und den Hörer mit psychedelischen Klängen umhüllt. Als weiteres Highlight ist sicherlich „Man Of Theory“ zu nennen, was mit seiner polirhythmischen Struktur überzeugen kann und so einige Durchläufe benötigt, um zu zünden. Einen ganz anderen Weg gehen Zippo bei „We, People’s Hearts“. Dieser Song könnte auch auf einem frühen Paradise-Lost- oder Sentenced-Album seinen Platz finden. Zippo zeigen hier ihre düstere Seite – man ist am Ende schier erleichtert, dass „We, People’s Hearts“ doch noch die Kurve zurück zum Sludge Metal findet und man aus dieser bedrohlichen Stimmung entfliehen kann. Für das gesamte Album trifft dies glücklicherweise nicht zu. Diesem möchte man sich nicht entziehen – Ganz im Gegenteil. Je öfter man „Maktub“ hört, desto mehr Strukturen und Details werden einem bewusst und desto tiefer möchte man in das Album eintauchen. (ms)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Manuel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metal-aschaffenburg.de/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;www.metal-aschaffenburg.de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-7321289321737349796?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/7321289321737349796/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-metal-aschaffenburg-germany.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7321289321737349796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7321289321737349796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-metal-aschaffenburg-germany.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;METAL-ASCHAFFENBURG&apos; (Germany)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-4641247435235881455</id><published>2012-02-01T04:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T04:08:33.018-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Born Again Nihilist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON BORN AGAIN NIHILIST (Ireland)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;9/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Not a country known for it's unbelievable rock output in the past, it seems there is a small , but well formed scene of interesting hard rock and psyche bands coming from Italy, with bands like The Whirlings, Ephel Duath and now Pescara based progsters Zippo leading the charge for a wave of Mediterranean flavoured &amp;nbsp;monolithic riffs and balls to the wall guitar wizardry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;And we'll be damned if it's not one of the freshest , most vital records to be released this year.The third album from Zippo, '&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;' is produced by Victor Love , with mastering duties handled by one James Plotkin, who has worked with such underground legends as Sunno&amp;nbsp;))) and Isis, and shows the band weaving a tantalising web of intricate songwriting, deft and clever riffing and sonic experimentation, as well as moments of &amp;nbsp;pure rock fury a la Mastodon and Baroness.Opener ' The Personal Legend' is a rousing blend of drop tuned , sledgehammer sludge riffing and spacey, glacial melodies, it's bizarre time changes and skittering , funk tinged riffing recalling a more sludgy Rush.' The Omens' is an epic blend of Tool style soaring melodies, and riffing battery, while 'Caravan To Your Destiny' impresses just as much with it's minimal stark guitar work and epic , eastern influenced melodies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;The band's talent lies in taking the traditional forms of grunge , sludge and hard rock, and twisting them into unrecognisable shapes, with tempos constantly changing, bizarre guitar effects , and cleverly sung vocal passages from singer David that recall Maynard James Keenan at his most exploratory.Album highlight 'Simum' meanwhile showcases the band's knack of creating a sense of spacey menace, that evokes long gone and much missed Louisiana psychos Acid Bath. But comparisons are mostly futile, as Zippo with 'Maktub' are very much forging their own path ,and it has to be said that this is perhaps one of the most confident and energetic albums to emerge from the heavy rock underground this year.Passionate and raw but yet technically fascinating and always with a feverish invention at play, expect these guys to make waves in the rock underground in 2012.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stephen O ' Connor&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bornagainnihilist1.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;http://bornagainnihilist1.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-4641247435235881455?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/4641247435235881455/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-born-again-nihilist-ireland.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/4641247435235881455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/4641247435235881455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2012/02/review-on-born-again-nihilist-ireland.html' title='REVIEW ON BORN AGAIN NIHILIST (Ireland)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-5460795386333670304</id><published>2011-11-10T05:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-10T13:47:13.494-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Legacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW &amp; INTERVIEW ON 'LEGACY' (GERMANY)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TuG-m3Q_bDA/TrvQrKcCvEI/AAAAAAAAAYs/PTWfFhpkuoU/s1600/heftcover.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TuG-m3Q_bDA/TrvQrKcCvEI/AAAAAAAAAYs/PTWfFhpkuoU/s320/heftcover.gif" width="242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; 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text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"&gt;Legacy&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Issue N. 75&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;13/15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Dass Stoner Rock nicht immer aus der Wüste Amerikas kommen muss, beweisen ZIPPO aus dem schönen Italien. „Maktub“ ist ihr drittes Album. Schnell wird klar, mit was man es hier zu tun hat: Sludge Metal der Marke Mastodon, Baroness oder Black Tusk. ZIPPO versehen ihre Musik jedoch mit ein wenig mehr verspielten und versteckten Melodien. Nach dem straighten, eröffnenden ‘The Personal Legend’ mit seinen gängigen dreieinhalb Minuten, haben alle sieben Lieder des Albums Überlänge. Trotz der etwas längeren Spielzeit des Restmaterials werden diese Lieder nicht langweilig und kommen immer wieder mit neuen Ideen um die Ecke. ‘The Omens’ beispielsweise, welches mit einem ungewöhnlich ruhigen und atmosphärischen Mittelteil aufwartet und den Hörer mit psychedelischen Klängen umhüllt. Als weiteres Highlight ist sicherlich ‘Man Of Theory’ zu nennen, das mit seiner polyrhythmischen Struktur überzeugen kann und so einige Durchläufe benötigt, um zu zünden. Einen ganz anderen Weg gehen ZIPPO bei ‘We, People’s Hearts’. Dieser Song könnte auch auf einem frühen Paradise Lost- oder Sentenced-Album seinen Platz finden. ZIPPO zeigen hier ihre düstere Seite – man ist am Ende schier erleichtert, dass ‘We, People’s Hearts’ doch noch die Kurve zurück zum Sludge Metal findet und man aus dieser bedrohlichen Stimmung entfliehen kann. Für das gesamte Album trifft dies glücklicherweise nicht zu. Diesem möchte man sich nicht entziehen – ganz im Gegenteil. Je öfter man „Maktub“ hört, desto mehr Strukturen und Details werden einem bewusst und desto tiefer möchte man in das Album eintauchen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;(MAST)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;///&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;click on the image/show original for larger picture.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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INTERVIEW ON &apos;LEGACY&apos; (GERMANY)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TuG-m3Q_bDA/TrvQrKcCvEI/AAAAAAAAAYs/PTWfFhpkuoU/s72-c/heftcover.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-7209137349016347727</id><published>2011-11-09T17:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T17:35:42.032-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italiancore Magazine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ITALIANCORE MAGAZINE' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;5/5&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-niDvyIeBZ74/Trsl3-KB-AI/AAAAAAAAAYk/6W3u9hGxquc/s1600/Maktub+Italiancore.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-niDvyIeBZ74/Trsl3-KB-AI/AAAAAAAAAYk/6W3u9hGxquc/s320/Maktub+Italiancore.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Dowload the issue n. 10 at this link:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.italiancoremagazine.it/2011/11/02/italiancore-mag-10-e-online/"&gt;http://www.italiancoremagazine.it/2011/11/02/italiancore-mag-10-e-online/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-7209137349016347727?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/7209137349016347727/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-on-italiancore-magazine-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7209137349016347727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7209137349016347727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-on-italiancore-magazine-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ITALIANCORE MAGAZINE&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-niDvyIeBZ74/Trsl3-KB-AI/AAAAAAAAAYk/6W3u9hGxquc/s72-c/Maktub+Italiancore.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-8011996267997571519</id><published>2011-11-03T05:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-09T17:20:58.543-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sludgelord'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uk'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'SLUDGELORD' (UK)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;ZIPPO's bio should tell you all you need to know about this superb and brilliant band.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;"Italia based ZIPPO have been able to forge within few years a unique musical creature. Active since 2004, three albums under their belt, several European tours and concerts all over Italy; this hiperactivity makes ZIPPO one of the leading bands in the Italian heavy psychedelic scene. Their live shows are bursting and mesmeric, a massive electric ritual that will petrify you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;After the surprising self-produced debut "Ode To Maximum" (2006), the following "The Road To Knowledge" (2009) shows a band in its phase of natural development, combining progressive approaches and post metal landscapes with the classic stoner rock and doom backgrounds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;ZIPPO's third son comes out in April 2011 once again through Subsound Records and its title is "Maktub". The 7 Tracks have been shaped by Victor Love at Subsound Studio while mastering duties have been handled by James Plotkin (Khanate, Sunn O))), Isis). Intense, daring, and twisting; with very special guests such as Ben Ward (Orange Goblin) and Luca T. Mai (Zu)."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Well I am here to review their superb 3rd album - "Maktub" - A 7 song 37 minute blast of pure sonic brilliance. Taking infleunce from ISIS, TOOL, Mastodon, Baroness and many other top notch Sludge/Post-Metal Bands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;ZIPPO bring a truly fresh spin on the genre adding some cool psych metal vibes. I haven't heard of ZIPPO before Dave contacted me. But I am glad he did.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;As this album is something truly special. How the fuck these guys aren't more well known is beyond me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Parts Stoner, Sludge, Post-Metal and Prog Metal all blended superbly to make the unique sound that only ZIPPO can deliver. This album is just flat out rocks from start to finish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Full of brutal riffs after brutal riffs. Heavy pulsating pounding drumming and top notch vocals from Dave. Which are full of passion and belief from the word go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;This album has been causing quite a stir in the underground scene and it's not hard to see why. Tracks like "Caravan To Your Destiny", "The Omens" and my fave track "The Treasure" show what this band does so superbly well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Blending hard-hitting riffs with top-notch emotional lyrics driven along by Dave's amazing vocals. Each song has the right blend of Sludge/Stoner/Post-Metal aggression that will have you begging for more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The whole album has been put together superbly. Not surprising considering the talent behind. Victor Love and James Plotkin are masters at this sort of thing. But the real stars are ZIPPO themselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;This album is a fucking masterpiece. No doubt about it. This album has made me a confirmed fan of these top-notch Sludge Rockers. Their previous 2 albums are worth checking out as well. Both superb releases in their own right. But MAKTUB is the true standout in the bands work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;MAKTUB will now be considered their landmark release and what their future works will be judged by.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The Sludgelord&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;thesludgelord.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-8011996267997571519?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/8011996267997571519/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-on-sludgelord-uk.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8011996267997571519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8011996267997571519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-on-sludgelord-uk.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;SLUDGELORD&apos; (UK)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-8710012444060852605</id><published>2011-10-10T15:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:38:04.717-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italiadimetallo.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ITALIADIMETALLO.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;9,5/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;I pescaresi&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt;, già autori di due album, tra cui l'ottimo&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Road to Knowledge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;(2009), pubblicano&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maktub&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, la loro prova finora più matura ed evoluta. Il titolo prende spunto dall'omonima raccolta di racconti brevi - sorta di parabole - di Paulo Coelho ed è un termine arabo che significa "così è scritto". Per la cronaca, questa antologia del grande scrittore brasiliano è disponibile in formato eBook scaricabile gratuitamente (e legalmente)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/312250/Ebook-ITA-Coelho-Paulo-Maktub" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;qui&lt;/a&gt;. I testi del disco sono pertanto molto importanti e densi di riferimenti a temi quali il viaggio come esperienza interiore, spirituale e totalizzante. Dal punto di vista più strettamente musicale, se in passato i nostri si muovevano in ambito stoner e affini, oggi il loro stile vira più decisamente verso un metal progressivo-psichedelico, come ben dimostra la traccia introduttiva, "&lt;strong&gt;Personal Legend&lt;/strong&gt;", nella quale viene rivisitata la lezione dei Mastodon: ritmiche in costante "ebollizione" e intricate, così come i riff di chitarra, mentre la voce di Dave, ora tesa e nervosa, ora cupamente suadente, pare rifarsi alle timbriche care agli Alice in Chains. Un'apertura di tutto rispetto, bissata dalla&lt;em&gt;tooliana&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;"&lt;strong&gt;The Omens&lt;/strong&gt;", ruvida e fragorosa ma capace di regalare brividi di grande suggestione nel cantato, che passa con disinvoltura dallo&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;screaming&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;a toni melodici e avvolgenti. "&lt;strong&gt;Caravan to Your Destiny&lt;/strong&gt;" beneficia di ritmi sincopati e di una struttura in bilico tra psichedelia pesante, progressive metal e contaminazioni avantgarde, tant'è che compare come ospite Luca Mai degli Zu, con i suoi peculiari inserti di sax baritono, che ritroviamo in "&lt;strong&gt;Simum&lt;/strong&gt;", una delle composizioni chiave: psichedelica, acida, "malata" nel solco dei migliori Alice in Chains, riletti però in chiave personale e con una componente noise-sperimentale che denota le brillanti intuizioni della band abruzzese. Nella sferzante "&lt;strong&gt;Man of Theory&lt;/strong&gt;" canta un ospite di riguardo come Ben Ward (Orange Goblin), che presta la sua voce rauca e alcolica, mentre "&lt;strong&gt;We, People's Hearts&lt;/strong&gt;" fa centro con il suo crescendo elettrico, dettato dai riff pesanti di Sergente e Franz e dalla quadrata batteria di Ferico; intenso il testo, imperniato sul dualismo forza-fragilità della natura umana. La canzone conclusiva è "&lt;strong&gt;The Treasure&lt;/strong&gt;", magnetica e dotata di grande spessore onirico-psichedelico, e non a caso le liriche sono incentrate (anche) sulla forza dei sogni. Un esemplare episodio di metal moderno e progressivo nel vero senso della parola, ossia rivolto al futuro e in costante evoluzione, proprio come la parabola artistica degli&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt;, ormai lanciati verso traguardi di tutto prestigio in Italia e direi soprattutto all'estero, dove suonano spesso e volentieri, costruendosi così una reputazione sempre più solida e credibile. Corredato da una splendida veste grafica,&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Maktub&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;è uno dei miei dischi dell'anno. "Così è scritto"...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Costantino Andruzzi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;www.italiadimetallo.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-8710012444060852605?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/8710012444060852605/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-italiadimetalloit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8710012444060852605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8710012444060852605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-italiadimetalloit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ITALIADIMETALLO.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-5550532700375449300</id><published>2011-10-10T15:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:33:25.581-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Austria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stormbringer.at'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'STORMBRINGER.AT' (Austria)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;4/5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;ZIPPO stellen zweifelsohne eine originelle sowie abwechslungsreiche Alternative zu all den gängigen Stoner-Rock Bands dar, und nachdem bereits das Vorgängeralbum „The Road To Knowledge“ einen guten Eindruck hinterlassen konnte, ist den Italienern mit „Maktub“ nun abermals eine Steigerung gelungen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zwar wirkt die Platte stellenweise schon noch ein wenig chaotisch, aber insgesamt kann das Album diesmal doch einen deutlich homogeneren Eindruck hinterlassen. Vor allem die ersten Stücke sind noch eine Spur zugänglicher ausgefallen, denn „The Personal Legend“ und „The Omens“ zeigen die Band von einer ungewohnt eingängigen Seite. Doch spätestens ab „Man Of Theory“ gleiten die Italiener dann immer mehr ins Experimentelle ab, was oft zu spannenden Momenten führt, manchmal aber auch ein klein wenig unbeholfen wirkt. Ein überraschender Höhepunkt ist aber auf alle Fälle das düster schleppende „We, People`s Hearts“, das schon beinahe als eine reine Gothic-Nummer durchgehen könnte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;„Maktub „ ist sicher keine einfache Platte die man so nebenher hören sollte, aber gerade deshalb könnte sie für aufgeschlossen Stoner-Anhänger durchaus von Interesse sein. Und da sich auch die Aufmachung des schicken Digipacks inklusive eines kleinen Posters sehen lassen kann, haben sich ZIPPO auf alle Fälle eine Chance verdient.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Bender&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;www.stormbringer.at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-5550532700375449300?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/5550532700375449300/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-stormbringerat-austria.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5550532700375449300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5550532700375449300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-stormbringerat-austria.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;STORMBRINGER.AT&apos; (Austria)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-4854152605256023884</id><published>2011-10-10T15:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:28:47.959-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Acidi Viola'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ACIDI VIOLA' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Di gruppi appartenenti al filone stoner del nostro paese ne abbiamo già parlato a sufficenza in passato, dai&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Treehorn&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;agli&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Herba Mate&lt;/strong&gt;, passando per&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Dust Inside&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;e chissà quanti altri. Ecco, ora apprestatevi ad aggiungerne un altro alla lista perchè questo&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maktub&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;dei pescaresi&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt;, dopo i due precedenti&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ode To Maximum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;e&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Road To Knowledge&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, merita di sicuro un posto di rilievo in questo particolare genere.&lt;br /&gt;In uscita a marzo di quest'anno, ascoltandolo vi salteranno subito all'orecchio i riferimenti principali (&lt;strong&gt;Tool&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;strong&gt;Mastodon&lt;/strong&gt;? fate voi...) e, se siete ascoltatori attenti, riuscirete addirittura a scoprire chi ha collaborato in qualche traccia. Il primo passo,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;the personal legend&lt;/em&gt;, è il passo più pesante. Tre minuti e quaranta secondi che già dalla prima nota vi verranno addosso con tutto il loro peso, tra scariche stoner-metal, schitarrate veloci e una batteria che rotola veloce e mira ad investirti in tutta la sua percussiva potenza. Ed è proprio un gran bell'inizio, che però subisce una brusca tirata di freno a mano quando parte&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;the omens&lt;/em&gt;. Il pezzo successivo. La rallentata desertica. Rallentata si, ma non meno pesante. Ci si ferma, a metà brano, in una oasi psichedelica d'introduzione al ritorno delle distorsioni pronte ad accompagnarci fino alla fine del brano.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Caravan to your destiny&lt;/em&gt;, con un riff in palm-muting che, per un minuto buono, ci tiene per mano, portandoci all'ingresso delle distorsioni, macina casino su casino, e fonde insieme chitarre, batterie e voci, pronte a fermarsi solo a pochi secondi dalla fine. Ed è prendendo spunto dal silenzio dei secondi finali di questo pezzo che fa il suo ingresso in scena, quasi inciampando,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;man of theory&lt;/em&gt;. Qui solo dopo i due minuti prende piede la classica rabbia del gruppo, anche se non disprezza una brusca frenata "pulita" dopo i quattro minuti, con tanto di partecipazione nobile (la voce di&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Ben Ward&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;degli&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Orange Goblin&lt;/em&gt;). E quanto ci vuole ad un gruppo del genere per arrivare dal deserto alla luna? poco, solo cinque minuti e mezzo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;We, people's hearts&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;è uno shuttle diretto verso il cielo, lento a partire (ci mette quasi due minuti ad accendere i motori) ma che quando lo fa comincia a viaggiare in perenne accellerata (anche se la formula giusta sarebbe "in appesantimento"). E al ritorno dalla breve parentesi lunare ci si ritrova in&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Simum&lt;/em&gt;: lenta ed orientaleggiante, è un'oasi nel deserto tra cammelli, caldo, miraggi e impazzimenti jazzcore finali. Devo proprio farlo il nome di&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Luca Mai&lt;/strong&gt;? non credo ce ne sia bisogno, in ogni caso il sassofono di&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Zu&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;e&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Mombu&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;è lì, a regalare pochi - ma importanti - secondi di casino jazzistico. Il tesoro finale,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;the treasure&lt;/em&gt;, sa essere equilibrato tra calma psichedelica ed incazzature distorte, altalenante e vagamente mathcore. Ed è così che finisce il terzo lavoro di un gruppo che piano piano è diventato una delle colonne dello stoner italiano. "Così è scritto" o almeno, così sembra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Duebambini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;acidiviola.splinder.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-4854152605256023884?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/4854152605256023884/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-acidi-viola-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/4854152605256023884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/4854152605256023884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-acidi-viola-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ACIDI VIOLA&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-3020424554243933624</id><published>2011-10-10T15:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:24:13.814-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hungary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Passzio.hu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'PASSZIO.HU' (Hungary)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;6/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;A 2004-ben, az olaszországi Pescara-ban alakult&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Zippo&lt;/i&gt;-nak ez a harmadik lemeze. Legutóbb 2008-ban jelentkeztek a&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://passzio.hu/modules.php?name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=17809" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;The Road to Knowledge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;albummal, amivel letértek a stoner-sludge ösvényről, átlépve az erősen&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Pain Of Salvation&lt;/i&gt;-hatásokat mutató&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;progresszív metal&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;környezetbe. Most némileg a&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://passzio.hu/modules.php?name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=22539" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Mastodon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;-uralta világ felé visszakozva hozzák ki&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;című új lemezüket...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ez egy kísérletező kedvű, még akár azt is mondhatni, hogy útkereső album, aminek a legfontosabb és egyben legjobb újdonsága, hogy legkevésbé a&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Pain Of Salvation&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;kínlódása jut róla az eszembe. A karcos és durva megszólalás stimmel a garázs szagot árasztó keverésben, a zene is mély, komplex és progresszív maradt, de a&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;már nem akarja egy az egyben nyúlni a hatásokat, és így a dolog elkezdett lélegezni. A&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://passzio.hu/modules.php?name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=22539" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Mastodon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;-t is csak azért említettem, mert egyrészt ezt a lélegzést náluk tapasztalom leginkább manapság, másrészt egyértelműbbek lettek a stoner-sludge hatások, mint valaha! Igaz, ez a visszalépés egyfajta nehézkes és kiszámítható hangulatot is okozott, amiről nekem az útkeresés szó jutott leginkább az eszembe... De összességében pont ezektől a kétértelmű jelzőktől lett igazán jó a&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Zippo&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;új albuma!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mert a&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;komplexitása és kísrletező kedvébe az is belefér most, hogy a&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Simum&lt;/i&gt;című dal végére magához rántsa a&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://passzio.hu/modules.php?name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=16069" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;Zu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;szaxofonos&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Luca T. Mai&lt;/i&gt;-t egy free-jazz jammelés őrületére, amivel engem azonnal megvettek... De persze vannak negatívumok is, a&lt;i&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;lélegző világa sokszor nem lett elég intenzív, a dinamikus gitár-zajongás is csak egy fegyver a kezükben, amit nem használnak eléggé szerintem... De összességében meg vagyok elégedve, mert ez a lemez átlépi a szórakoztatni vágyás kommersz határát, és ettől érdekes tud lenni, de a helyes arányokat még biztosan nem találták meg. Az irány viszont jó, úgyhogy ez a lemez örömtelibb, mint az értékelés pontszáma fogja mutatni...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;www.passzio.hu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-3020424554243933624?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/3020424554243933624/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-passziohu-hungary.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3020424554243933624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3020424554243933624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-passziohu-hungary.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;PASSZIO.HU&apos; (Hungary)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-2981526318920584185</id><published>2011-10-10T15:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:20:22.955-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sodapop.it'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'SODAPOP.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ennesimo misero tentativo di scimmiottare i&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Mastodon&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(ultimi) e tutta una certa tendenza stonerevolutiva che nei sopraccitati, insieme a&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Baroness&lt;/strong&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;High On Fire&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;ed una manciata di altri è stata in grado di rinverdire un genere sterile e povero di idee fin dalla sua nascita nei primi anni novanta. I nostrani&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;ci provano, si sforzano, si spremono, attingendo ad una tradizione musicale anni luce dalla nostra che, ovviamente in una band di New Orleans o Savannah ha ragion d’essere, mentre in una band italiana (o almeno in questa) non ce la fa proprio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Sia chiaro (se ancora non lo sono stato) che la mia aspra critica non va all'esecuzione o alla produzione, entrambe più che impeccabili, ma proprio ai contenuti, agli intenti, all'originalità: tutte tare qui presenti che ancora riescono ad irritarmi. Una band più che perfetta per le seconde (se non terze) file della Relapse, ma che non emoziona, non entusiasma, non produce quell’impeto epico indispensabile in un genere tanto abusato ultimamente. Special guest di Ben Ward degli&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Orange Goblin&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;e Luca T. Mai degli&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Zu&lt;/strong&gt;. Consigliato a chi va a comprare l'insalata di riso già pronta e condita e a chi ascolta lo stoner, ma disdegna i&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Bathory&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Marco Giorcelli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;www.sodapop.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-2981526318920584185?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/2981526318920584185/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-sodapopit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2981526318920584185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2981526318920584185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-sodapopit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;SODAPOP.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-3134819147401557585</id><published>2011-10-10T15:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:17:50.795-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deep Cycloid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'DEEP CYCLOID' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #721817; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;72/100&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;I pescaresi Zippo approdano al loro terzo album per la romana Subsound. Notazioni biografiche a parte, che potete reperire in molte altre recensioni sulla rete, bisogna sottolineare l'eclettismo coerente dell'ensemble abruzzese. Non più simil stoner ma suoni più aperti, chitarre ancora più 'intrecciate', e voce dominante di Davide&amp;nbsp; Straccione, elementi che presi tutti insieme contribuiscono non poco ad un sound caratterizzante. Non è poco.&amp;nbsp; Difficile addomesticare il loro sound se non si conoscono, anche se qualcosa di math rock viene in mente con vaghi echi di Tool, Mastodon e Isis, ed anche qualcosa dei Void Generator (Message From the&amp;nbsp; Galactic Federation) ma molto meno psych. Non a caso la produzione viene affidata, almeno in parte a James&amp;nbsp; Plotkin. La voce di Straccione, grossa e gutturale, ti costringe a seguire la linea del cantato. La sezione ritmica è sempre in movimento costruendo di continuo groove freddi e che ricordano qualcosa degli anni '80. A tratti, la ritmica delle chitarre rileva i limiti tecnici degli esecutori, il cui risultato, giova ripeterlo, non è mai&amp;nbsp; banale. Senza accorgersene giungiamo a metà dell'album dove si comincia sentire un certo bisogno 'd'altro'.&amp;nbsp; Soccorre allora 'We, people's Hearth' con incipit più rilassato e melodie più orecchiabili. Pezzo sicuramente&amp;nbsp; interessante. Bella anche la successiva 'Simum', vagamente psichedelica. Chiude più o meno con identico&amp;nbsp; mood 'The Treasure'. Un disco migliorabile ma ben fatto, se vi piace il genere andate sul sicuro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #721817; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ENG:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Zippo from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Pescara&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;calling&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;their third&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;album for the&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;r&lt;span class="hps"&gt;oman&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Subsound&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;You can find the biographical&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;notations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;in many&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;other reviews but we need to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;emphasize&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;consistent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;eclecticism of the ensemble&amp;nbsp; from&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Abruzzo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;No more&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;stoner-like&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;but it sounds&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;more open&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;more&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;twisted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;guitars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;, and&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;ragged&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;dominant voice&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;of David&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;e, all of which&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;taken&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;contribute&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;greatly to&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;distinctive&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;sound&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;It is&amp;nbsp; not little&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Hard to&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;tame&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;their sound&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;if you do not&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;know&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;them,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;even if&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;something&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;comes to mind&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;as math&amp;nbsp; rock&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;with vague&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;echoes&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;of Tool&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Mastodon&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;and Isis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;also something&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;of the&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Void&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Generator&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;(Message&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;From The&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Galactic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Federation)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;but much less&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;psych&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Not surprisingly, the&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;production is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;entrusted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;, at least&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;in part&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;to James&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Plotkin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;The&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Straccione's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;voice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;, thick and&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;throaty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;forcing you&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;to&amp;nbsp; follow the line&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;singing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;The rhythm section&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;is always&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;on the move&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;constantly&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;building&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;groove&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;reminiscent of&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;something&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;cold and&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;80s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;t times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;, the&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;rhythm&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;guitar&lt;/span&gt;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;note the&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;technical limitations&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;of&amp;nbsp; the performers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;the result of which&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;it is worth repeating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;is never&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;trivial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Without&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;realizing it&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;we reach&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;half of the album&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;where you start&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;to feel&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;a certain need of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;the other&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Then&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;rescues&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;'We&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;, People&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;'s&amp;nbsp; Hearth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;with&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;more relaxed starting and&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;catchy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;melodies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Piece&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;definitely&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;interesting.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Nice also&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;the&amp;nbsp; subsequent&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;Simum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;vaguely&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;psychedelic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Closes&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;more or less&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;with the same&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;mood&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps atn"&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;The Treasure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;An&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;improvable&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;record&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;but well done&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;if you like&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;the genre&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;you go&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;on the safe side&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;deepcycloid.blogspot.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-3134819147401557585?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/3134819147401557585/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-deep-cycloid-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3134819147401557585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3134819147401557585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-deep-cycloid-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;DEEP CYCLOID&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-5655342918802771280</id><published>2011-10-10T15:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:12:03.262-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stoned Sun Vibrations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Greece'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'STONED SUN VIBRATIONS' (Greece)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arimo; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arimo; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Zippo with their third album "Maktub" created an amazingly&amp;nbsp;intelligent, surprising piece of work. These guys are very talented musicians and Maktub proves it to anyone defies it. For this one I'll quote Antrea Contanzo's review from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.doommantia.com/2011/06/zippo-maktub.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Doomantia&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;because it&amp;nbsp;matches&amp;nbsp;perfectly with my point of view:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="" name="more"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;"It's with a mixture of joy and sadness that I have to type the following phrase: the new album by Zippo is incredibly good, so good and strong that it will hardly have the success it deserves in our own country. That's the harsh truth. Guys like Zippo, which are able to create an album like “Maktub”, that not only sounds great but also says something new and shows that there are bands in the scene that could become giants, are ignored or scoffed at in Italy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;That sad, wow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The guys wanted to make something big. Actually, bigger. Huge. One can already see it by the Cd's magnificent artwork by Bass player Stonino. It's a package that makes you want to collect the album and makes you excited for what you're about to hear. And since as you press play, you get hit and rewarded with, possibly, one of the most intense and intelligent pieces of Heavy Rock of the year. The sound, perfected by the capable hands of Victor Love and James Plotkin (Khanate, SunnO))), Baroness), is like a machine of unpredictable intelligent heaviness. The riffs are huge, full of sudden turns towards groove, melody or mysteriously hypnotic spiraling. The whole band sounds perfectly oiled, delivering songs that are increasingly complex, crushing, and mesmerizing as the album progresses.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;While at first, thanks also to Davide's impressive vocal performance, you will bang your head and be drawn in by their Stoner-ish grooves with touches of intelligent Post-Metal, the record will unfold and you'll just get joyfully trapped into an architecture of complex structures, moments of jamming, tension and release, explosions of heaviness, sudden phases of eerie quiet.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;With the added guest appearances of Orange Goblin's Ben Ward or Zu's saxophonist Luca T Mai, the album just defies any categorization, like the great albums by late Mastodon, Kylesa or Baroness did. What you have here is a bold, intelligent, heavy, powerful explosion of sound that will get your heart on a first listen and grow more and more on you as you replay it. Possibly one of my favourite records this year and a must have."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Highly Recommended!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;stonedsunvibrations.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-5655342918802771280?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/5655342918802771280/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-stoned-sun-vibrations-greece.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5655342918802771280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5655342918802771280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-stoned-sun-vibrations-greece.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;STONED SUN VIBRATIONS&apos; (Greece)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-5678507513883112188</id><published>2011-10-10T14:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:06:40.245-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rockit'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ROCKIT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Di etichette da tirare in mezzo ce ne sarebbero a pacchi. Qualcuno ha parlato di post metal, altri ancora di heavy grunge. In realtà questo "Maktub", terzo lavoro in studio dei pescaresi Zippo, finisce per essere così disorientante, colmo di tasselli e suggestioni, che trovare la via maestra per riuscire ad abbracciarlo appieno è impresa abbastanza ardua. 40 minuti nei quali la band si concede incursioni nei più svariati territori sonori, passando da sfuriate che hanno il sapore di certo progressive metal a cavalcate in bilico tra stoner e psichedelia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Potremmo parlare di "The personal legend", la sinuosa opening-track che si muove tra progressioni e repentini cambi di tempo dettati dalle chitarre. O di "Man of theory", con un pezzo di storia come Ben Ward degli&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 0em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0em;"&gt;&lt;a class="nero" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Goblin" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 0em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0em; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Orange Goblin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;alla voce. O ancora dello&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 0em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0em;"&gt;&lt;a class="nero" href="http://www.rockit.it/zu" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 0em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0em; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;ZU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;grind sax di Luca T. Mai, che irrompe in due pezzi, lasciando dietro di sé una scia di jazz bastardo. Insomma, tante tessere messe l'una accanto all'altra, a formare un mosaico di colori difficili quanto affascinanti. Un po' come pensare agli&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 0em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0em;"&gt;&lt;a class="nero" href="http://www.rockit.it/ufomammut" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 0em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0em; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Ufomammut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;meno apocalittici o ai&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 0em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0em;"&gt;&lt;a class="nero" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 0em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0em; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;di "Salival".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Un groviglio all'interno del quale a farla da padrone è la voce di Dave, quasi mantrica nel suo salmodiare liriche che prendono le mosse da "L'alchimista" di&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="nero" href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 0em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0em; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Coelho&lt;/a&gt;. Al di là delle influenze che possono essere più o meno rintracciate, però, quello che dopo svariati ascolti emerge è la grande personalità del gruppo. Che finisce col plasmare l'intero contenuto dell'album, sputando fuori sonorità potenti e abrasive e regalandoci così un disco di rara qualità.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marcello Farno&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.rockit.it&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-5678507513883112188?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/5678507513883112188/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-rockit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5678507513883112188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5678507513883112188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-rockit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ROCKIT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-6832167859841067797</id><published>2011-10-10T14:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:06:26.111-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Austria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stonerheadletgrooveyourbrainstonight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'STONERHEAD LET GROOVE YOUR BRAINS TONIGHT' (Austria)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Strange tunes straight from italy,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;this group&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;this gr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;oup of men&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;with big&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;cojones. F&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;at grooves, nice guitar solos, good concept&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;especially the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;fear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;-causing&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;singing voice...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;A little bit of System of a Down, Tool Atmosphere...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;A great modern Progressive Metal band with a touch of stoner and sludge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;My favorites are "The Treasure"," Caravan To Your Destiny" and "The Omen".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;Enjoy very second on this album,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;it&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;is worth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pawel Stonerhead Zandl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="short_text" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;stonerheadletgrooveyourbrainstonight.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-6832167859841067797?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/6832167859841067797/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-stonerhead-let-groove-your.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6832167859841067797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6832167859841067797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-stonerhead-let-groove-your.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;STONERHEAD LET GROOVE YOUR BRAINS TONIGHT&apos; (Austria)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-7336916687143560497</id><published>2011-10-10T14:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:05:17.706-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Magmusic.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'MAGMUSIC.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #040101; color: #363636; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;“Chi entra nel deserto non può tornare indietro. Quando non si può tornare indietro, bisogna soltanto preoccuparsi del modo migliore per avanzare. Al resto ci pensa Allah, compreso il pericolo”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Dopo aver percorso “la strada della conoscenza” – “The Road to Knowledge”, loro secondo album del 2009 – i pescaresi&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;si apprestano a percorrere un nuovo viaggio. Protagonisti: te stesso, le tue gambe, la tua mente ed il tuo cuore. “&lt;strong&gt;Maktub&lt;/strong&gt;” – “Così è scritto” in lingua araba – terzo lavoro del gruppo, è ancora una volta un concept (il precedente lavoro era basato sull’opera “Gli insegnamenti di Don Juan” di Carlos Castaneda) ispirato a “L’alchimista”, famoso libro di Paulo Coelho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Run, trust your heart, never give up. See all things are one, fill your heart with enthusiasm&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Il viaggio ha inizio.&lt;span id="more-5309"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;L’intro è di quelli che non ti aspetti: una potente rullata, poi l’esplosione di tutti gli strumenti. Ecco&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Personal Legend&lt;/em&gt;. Franz e Sergente, responsabili delle chitarre, vestono i panni di eccelsi pittori (senza nulla togliere al bassista Stonino, responsabile della parte grafica del gruppo): lo strumento diventa pennello per disegnare trame ricche di molti colori. La distorsione si eclissa in un bellissimo chorus. In “Maktub” non ci sono riff da ricordare, solo una moltitudine di colori. Anche il resto della band merita una menzione speciale: il sopracitato Stonino insieme a Ferico (impegnati anche con i Death Mantra for Lazarus e il rinato Santo Niente) formano una tellurica sezione ritmica; e che dire di Dave, il cantante? Una voce versatile, capace di alternare sapientemente momenti melodici e graffianti. Qualcuno potrebbe aggiungere: “&lt;em&gt;Ma cantano in inglese essendo italiani, perché?&lt;/em&gt;”. Perché l’inglese è la lingua del metal (o dello stoner, ai posteri l’ardua sentenza per quanto riguarda il genere in cui catalogare gli Zippo).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ma torniamo a parlare del disco. Il suono è maturo, i cinque musicisti sembra non abbiano intenzione di porre limiti alla propria creatività, irrobustendo il proprio sound con accorgimenti mirati, che alternano memorie progressive (&lt;em&gt;The Omens&lt;/em&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Caravan to Your Destiny, The Treasure&lt;/em&gt;) ad altre legate al (nuovo?) metal (&lt;em&gt;Man of Theory&lt;/em&gt;, mozzafiato duetto con Ben Ward degli Orange Goblin, sembra uscita dalla “montagna di sangue” dei Mastodon).&amp;nbsp; Menzione speciale per&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;We, People’s Heart&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;e&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Simum&lt;/em&gt;, probabilmente gli episodi migliori dell’album.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;We tell stories of love, fear and rage. Beats scanned and hard, strong enough and brave, run the risk of difficult wagers&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Una continua evoluzione che sembra non aver trovato ostacoli di rilievo. Belle canzoni, ricche di emozioni e passionalità.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Cammina tante strade, ritorna alla tua casa, e vedi ogni cosa come se fosse la prima volta&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;“Maktub”, una lucente consapevolezza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Marco “C’est Disco” Gargiulo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;www.magmusic.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-7336916687143560497?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/7336916687143560497/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-magmusicit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7336916687143560497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7336916687143560497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-magmusicit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;MAGMUSIC.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-1233189958513963485</id><published>2011-10-10T14:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:04:49.694-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lordsofmetal.nl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Netherlands'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'LORDSOFMETAL.NL' (Netherlands)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;78/100&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;Italië staat bij mij eigenlijk al jaren te boek als een corrupte bananenrepubliek vol make-up dragende macho’s. Voor metal hoef je er al helemaal niet heen, tenzij je leeft voor fantasyclichés voorgedragen in tenenkrommende Engelse accenten over een stortvloed aan over-the-top-blije, barokke gitaarmelodieën. Nee, power metal is niet mijn favoriete muziek. Laat ik deze maand nu eindelijk kennismaken met een groepering uit de laars van Europa die mijn vastgeroeste vooroordelen enigszins in beweging brengt.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;Ok, de bandnaam Zippo is niet best (zoals collega Jan-Simon&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showreview.php?id=13416" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;al eerder aanhaalde&lt;/a&gt;), maar het muzikale aanbod op ‘Maktub’ is verbazingwekkend rijk. Een gastoptreden van Orange Goblin’s Ben Ward in ‘Man Of Theory’ (zie hieronder) is nog de duidelijkste link naar de stoner basis van de muziek. In zeven dynamische composities wordt deze basis verrijkt met avontuurlijk, bijna Tool-achtig baswerk en emotionele, warme (en accentloze!) zang die af en toe uitschiet naar Layne Staley-registers (Alice In Chains) en af en toe refereert aan het bezwerende aspect van Bruce Lamont’s zang (Yakuza). En alsof de originele muziek nog niet genoeg is, de prachtig vormgegeven digipack maakt een legale aanschaf dubbel en dwars waard. Enig minpuntje aan het album is de wat korte speelduur van 37 minuten. Net als je geest goed door de muziek geabsorbeerd raakt, is het alweer afgelopen. Maar goed, daar hebben ze de repat knop voor uitgevonden!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Richard G.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;www.lordsofmetal.nl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-1233189958513963485?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/1233189958513963485/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-lordsofmetalnl-netherlands.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1233189958513963485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1233189958513963485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-lordsofmetalnl-netherlands.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;LORDSOFMETAL.NL&apos; (Netherlands)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-6464273545132514211</id><published>2011-10-10T14:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:04:23.695-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ondarock.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ONDAROCK.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d8d8da; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;6/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Gli Zippo sono cinque musicisti di Pescara che si muovono nell'ambito di un heavy-rock caratterizzato da non lievi connotazioni psych, che emergono in particolare nei brani meno abrasivi e più dilatati. Sono proprio questi ultimi a conferire il vero valore aggiunto a "Maktub", il terzo disco della band, in grado di allargare lo spettro musicale proposto dal quintetto, ora non più protagonista di un nudo e crudo&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/kyuss.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;stoner&lt;/a&gt;-metal, ma alla ricerca di nuove personali contaminazioni.&lt;br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;Se nei pezzi più scontati si fa il verso ora ai&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/metallica.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Metallica&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;("We, People's Hearts"), ora al potente math-rock di&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/tool.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Tool&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;e&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2006_mastodon.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Mastodon&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;("The Omens", "Man Of Theory"), altrove gli Zippo cercano elementi maggiormente caratterizzanti, alternando sapientemente la sciabola al fioretto. Emergono fra le righe striature di certo&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/storiadelrock/grunge.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;grunge&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;prossimo agli&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/aliceinchains.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Alice In Chains&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(nell'iniziale "The Personal Legend"), oppure interessanti avvicinamenti al mondo&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/faithnomore.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Faith No More&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in "Caravan To Your Destiny".&lt;br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;Ma il vero valore aggiunto dell'album emerge, appunto, soprattutto nelle due tracce conclusive, nelle quali l'elemento psichedelico prende il sopravvento sulla furia elettrica, lasciando spazio a crescendo di rara intensità.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;È presumibile che "Simum" e "The Tresure" si confermeranno nel tempo i veri motivi per i quali "Maktub" potrà essere ricordato.&lt;br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;A "Maktub" hanno collaborato Ben Ward degli Orange Goblin e Luca T. Mai, il sassofonista degli&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2009_zu.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Zu&lt;/a&gt;; il&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;mastering&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;è stato curato da James Plotkin, già in cabina di regia con&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/rockedintorni/isis.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Isis&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;e&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2009_sunn.htm" style="color: #117dd2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Sunn O))))&lt;/a&gt;, tutte presenze che conferiscono al disco un respiro internazionale. Le numerose esibizioni&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;live&lt;/em&gt;, sia in Italia che oltre frontiera, stanno confermando un crescente interesse nei confronti del quintetto abruzzese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Claudio Lancia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;www.ondarock.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-6464273545132514211?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/6464273545132514211/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-ondarockit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6464273545132514211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6464273545132514211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-ondarockit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ONDAROCK.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-6835735963692321754</id><published>2011-10-10T14:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T14:16:43.900-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stereoinvaders.com'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'STEREOINVADERS.COM' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;8,5/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ld2oSAI1ZM8/TZ3RlRsyVyI/AAAAAAAAAR0/GNFw6jGYyi0/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ld2oSAI1ZM8/TZ3RlRsyVyI/AAAAAAAAAR0/GNFw6jGYyi0/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Abbiamo conosciuto gli Zippo circa un anno fa grazie alla sempre attiva Subsound Record, che ci regalò un album Stoner dai classici retrogusti Kyuss. Non nascondemmo soddisfazione per la solidità del full-lenght e per la voglia di accennare alcune divagazioni più Psychedelic. “Maktub” si sposta ancora più in là nella sperimentazione, mantenendo dei sentori fortemente Rock, ma sterzando considerevolmente al Post/Alternative. Disco che si presenta dalle melodie quasi arabeggianti, frastagliate immagini che si susseguono in un moto perpetuo e lento. Onirici e sornioni, i nostrani musicisti, dimostrano di essere eclettici e fortemente psichedelici. Suoni vanno via via succedendosi intrecciandosi, tappeto ritmico dissonante dalla voce e dalla chitarra, divagazioni che hanno un sapore unico e intriso di personalità. Mai nulla è scontato o prevedibile, così da travolgerci fisicamente ed allo stesso tempo, sconvolgerci dentro. Destrutturato e decisamente folle, “Maktub” contiene singulti di Stoner uniti alla voglia di spingersi a lidi sempre desertici, ma tutti da scoprire. Potremmo parlare di similitudini con i più recenti Baroness, ma tutto ciò non deve fermare l’idea di un project che va molto al di là e che riesce a mettere una personalità unica. Uscita eccellente e che merita attenzione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Thiess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;www.stereoinvaders.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-6835735963692321754?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/6835735963692321754/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-stereoinvaderscom-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6835735963692321754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6835735963692321754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-stereoinvaderscom-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;STEREOINVADERS.COM&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ld2oSAI1ZM8/TZ3RlRsyVyI/AAAAAAAAAR0/GNFw6jGYyi0/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-1980431135723818872</id><published>2011-10-10T14:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:04:06.924-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taxi-driver.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'TAXI-DRIVER.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;4/5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 9pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ld2oSAI1ZM8/TZ3RlRsyVyI/AAAAAAAAAR0/GNFw6jGYyi0/s1600/200x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ld2oSAI1ZM8/TZ3RlRsyVyI/AAAAAAAAAR0/GNFw6jGYyi0/s1600/200x180.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Il progetto Zippo nasce a Pescara e giunge alla line-up definitiva nell'estate del 2004 con l'ingresso del cantante Davide (Dave) Straccione. Il loro inizio e' pero' datato ottobre 2005 allorche' il quintetto entra in studio per il primo full lenght autoprodotto "Ode To Maximum". Il resto e' storia recente con la collaborazione della Subsound Records per l'ottimo "Road To Knowledge" di due anni fa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ora e' la volta di "Maktub", un lavoro ambizioso ancorche' intrigante e vorticoso, che necessita di parecchi ascolti prima di "entrarci" dentro soprattutto per chi era abituato alle precedenti sonorita', ma che probabilmente segna il passo definitivo della band.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Loro amano definirsi "stoner" anche se onestamente, come detto, questo nuovo album sembra un pochino allontanarsi da questa tendenza. Piuttosto possiamo parlare di un "crossover" a tutto tondo con aperture prog/folk decisamente particolari senza dimenticare tortuosi viaggi psichedelici. Questa inversione di attitudine la si nota sin dall'iniziale "The Personal Legend" dove i possenti riff vengono accompagnati dal basso distorto di Stonino, quasi in stile Korn. Korn quindi e non Kyuss come nelle precedenti uscite, ma anche Tool (ad esempio "The Omens"), System Of A Down in certi momenti e Mastodon nell'epicita' di alcuni passaggi prog. Lo stoner propriamente detto si e' ridotto alla potente "Man Of Theory", e non solo per la presenza vocale di Ben Ward degli Orange Goblin, all'esoterica "Simum" con il sax di Luca Mai degli Zu in evidenza e alla conclusiva "The Treasure", forse il brano migliore del disco.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La voce di Dave poi fa da contorno ad un riuscitissimo album, che speriamo possa finalmente avere il giusto merito anche all'interno dei nostri confini nazionali dato che all'estero il gruppo gode gia' di buona popolarita'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Producono Victor Love e masterizza James Plotkin (Khanate, Sunn O))), Isis) e anche questo e' sinonimo di garanzia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Cristiano Roversi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;www.taxi-driver.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-1980431135723818872?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/1980431135723818872/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-taxi-driverit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1980431135723818872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1980431135723818872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-on-taxi-driverit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;TAXI-DRIVER.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ld2oSAI1ZM8/TZ3RlRsyVyI/AAAAAAAAAR0/GNFw6jGYyi0/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-2466403957051760538</id><published>2011-07-07T08:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-07T09:15:05.298-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rock A Rolla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uk'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ROCK-A-ROLLA' (UK)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;b style="font-size: large; "&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://rock-a-rolla.com/main/wp-content/COVER32side.jpg" alt="Buy issue 32 now! Click here" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;ROCK-A-ROLLA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Issue 32 - June/July 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;img src="http://oi52.tinypic.com/ml36s7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://i52.tinypic.com/349cd1e.jpg"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to view the full page&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;www.rock-a-rolla.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-2466403957051760538?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/2466403957051760538/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-on-rock-rolla-uk.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2466403957051760538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2466403957051760538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-on-rock-rolla-uk.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ROCK-A-ROLLA&apos; (UK)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-3280049531970263992</id><published>2011-07-07T08:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-07T09:22:13.867-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rockerilla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>INTERVIEW AND REVIEW ON 'ROCKERILLA' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-31iXzWB4rcY/ThXVCCEGN-I/AAAAAAAAAWU/gAl2aMrxUE4/s1600/Cover%2Bsmall.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626637540359813090" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 226px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-31iXzWB4rcY/ThXVCCEGN-I/AAAAAAAAAWU/gAl2aMrxUE4/s320/Cover%2Bsmall.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;ROCKERILLA&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;n° 371/372 - luglio/agosto 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://oi55.tinypic.com/25i6lb7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://oi56.tinypic.com/2us7csx.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(14, 119, 74); line-height: 15px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; "&gt;www.&lt;b&gt;rockerilla&lt;/b&gt;.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-3280049531970263992?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/3280049531970263992/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/07/interview-and-review-on-rockerilla.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3280049531970263992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3280049531970263992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/07/interview-and-review-on-rockerilla.html' title='INTERVIEW AND REVIEW ON &apos;ROCKERILLA&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-31iXzWB4rcY/ThXVCCEGN-I/AAAAAAAAAWU/gAl2aMrxUE4/s72-c/Cover%2Bsmall.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-6754132950772888786</id><published>2011-07-07T08:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T14:18:00.132-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Doommantia'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'DOOMMANTIA' (USA)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s1600/200x180.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626634131623316898" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s320/200x180.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 180px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;It's with a mixture of joy and sadness that I have to type the following phrase: the new album by Zippo is incredibly good, so good and strong that it will hardly have the success it deserves in our own country. That's the harsh truth. Guys like Zippo, which are able to create an album like “Maktub”, that not only sounds great but also says something new and shows that there are bands in the scene that could become giants, are ignored or scoffed at in Italy.That sad, wow.The guys wanted to make something big. Actually, bigger. Huge. One can already see it by the Cd's magnificent artwork by Bass player Stonino. It's a package that makes you want to collect the album and makes you excited for what you're about to hear. And since as you press play, you get hit and rewarded with, possibly, one of the most intense and intelligent pieces of Heavy Rock of the year. The sound, perfected by the capable hands of Victor Love and James Plotkin (Khanate, SunnO))), Baroness), is like a machine of unpredictable intelligent heaviness. The riffs are huge, full of sudden turns towards groove, melody or mysteriously hypnotic spiraling. The whole band sounds perfectly oiled, delivering songs that are increasingly complex, crushing, and mesmerizing as the album progresses.While at first, thanks also to Davide's impressive vocal performance, you will bang your head and be drawn in by their Stoner-ish grooves with touches of intelligent Post-Metal, the record will unfold and you'll just get joyfully trapped into an architecture of complex structures, moments of jamming, tension and release, explosions of heaviness, sudden phases of eerie quiet.With the added guest appearances of Orange Goblin's Ben Ward or Zu's saxophonist Luca T Mai, the album just defies any categorization, like the great albums by late Mastodon, Kylesa or Baroness did. What you have here is a bold, intelligent, heavy, powerful explosion of sound that will get your heart on a first listen and grow more and more on you as you replay it. Possibly one of my favourite records this year and a must have.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Andrea Costanzo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.doommantia.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;www.doommantia.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-6754132950772888786?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/6754132950772888786/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-on-doommantia-usa.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6754132950772888786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6754132950772888786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-on-doommantia-usa.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;DOOMMANTIA&apos; (USA)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NFyBdT4RQwk/ThXR7nh_DaI/AAAAAAAAAWM/uLoLwl5Wq-s/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-6983579459155294692</id><published>2011-07-07T08:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T14:17:06.858-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Storia della Musica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'STORIA DELLA MUSICA' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 130%;"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;6/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626629006098484754" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P_2dhBV2DNw/ThXNRRdozhI/AAAAAAAAAWE/cSPZy-JKTSQ/s320/200x180.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 180px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; text-align: justify; width: 200px;" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;Tutte le volte che mi capita di ascoltare un lavoro degli &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Zippo" style="color: #dc4600; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;strong style="color: #54637a; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;, penso sempre allo stesso inciso: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="color: #54637a; font-style: normal; line-height: 14px;"&gt;bravi ma&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;. Capitò all’epoca con l’incensatissimo “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/The%20Road%20To%20Knowledge" style="color: #dc4600; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;strong style="color: #54637a; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Road To Knowledge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;”, duemilanove, costruito interamente sulla figura sciamanica e controversa del guru centramericano Carlos Castaneda. Ottima produzione, suoni impeccabili, grande grinta, alcune idee davvero non male. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="color: #54637a; font-style: normal; line-height: 14px;"&gt;Bravi ma&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;. Pur cercando, a tratti disperatamente, nuovi sbocchi di uscita per il loro &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="color: #54637a; font-style: normal; line-height: 14px;"&gt;stoner &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;“italianizzato” (sì, sono abruzzesi: se non ve l’avessi detto, ci avreste mai creduto?), incrociandolo con i tribalismi cajun, le atmosfere iberiche, la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="color: #54637a; font-style: normal; line-height: 14px;"&gt;psichedelia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt; latina e certo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="color: #54637a; font-style: normal; line-height: 14px;"&gt;post-metal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt; vitaminizzato, il risultato era un discreto minestrone, a dir la verità poco coeso, che soffriva sostanzialmente un importante gap cronologico rispetto al nume tutelare allora in voga: quello dei &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Mars%20Volta" style="color: #dc4600; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;strong style="color: #54637a; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mars Volta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;. Un po’ meno sfilacciati, pirotecnici ed esibizionisti, più attenti al quadro generale che all’onda d’urto confusionaria. Eppure il dejà vu, la sensazione di avere di fronte degli onesti e preparati epigoni, non si defilava neppure con le varie ed eventuali considerazioni particolari sul tema.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;A “&lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Maktub" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Maktub&lt;/a&gt;” – titolo preso in prestito da una novella di Paulo Coelho – tocca in sorte lo stesso destino: un gruppo ancor più migliorato tecnicamente, con una veste sonora in gran parte inedita – tre dischi appena e una continua metamorfosi alle spalle, ne va dato sicuramente atto –, una concezione neo-progressiva della forma/canzone e la benedizione in mastering di &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/James%20Plotkin" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;James Plotkin&lt;/a&gt;, già al lavoro coi furono &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Isis" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Isis&lt;/a&gt; (dovrebbe già suggerire qualcosa…).Bravi ma. Se a pensar male si fa peccato, ma spesso ci si azzecca, a tal proposito “The Personal Legend” fa il bottino pieno: sciame tellurico dietro le pelli, levitazioni allucinogene, basso sciabordante e la voce possente di &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Davide%20Straccione" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Davide Straccione&lt;/a&gt;. Niente per cui gridare allo scandalo. A meno che non abbiate sentito almeno una volta, negli ultimi due anni, un disco dei &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Neurosis" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Neurosis&lt;/a&gt; a vostra scelta e, soprattutto, “&lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Crack%20The%20Skye" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Crack The Skye&lt;/a&gt;” dei &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Mastodon" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Mastodon&lt;/a&gt;. Lo spettacolo inscenato dai cinque di Pescara, se non proprio congruente, è largamente sovrapponibile alle nuove, coloratissime prove di forza su cui il quintetto di Atlanta ha basato il suo nuovo corso: un recupero vintage delprog psichedelico ad alta gradazione metallica, ma fuori dalla sequenza principale delle deflagrazioni in themselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Una volta appurato lo scarso imprinting specifico, poi, ci si può facilmente concentrare su altri aspetti. La scrittura degli &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Zippo" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Zippo&lt;/a&gt; ha subito un netto passo in avanti, diventando indiscutibilmente elaborata e particolareggiata (si veda il contrasto armonico tra chitarre e voce nella strofa di “The Omens”, altro trucchetto alla “Capillarian Crest”, con il deserto nelle vene), e la decisione di aprire lo sviluppo sistematico dei brani ad un ventaglio strumentale più ampio aiuta a stornare il presagio di assistere alla corsa ipercinetica di una formazione che, per quanti sforzi riesca a fare, arriva sempre in ritardo sul pezzo. Nulla di nuovo, tuttavia, anche su questo versante, con il richiestissimo &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Luca%20Mai" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Luca Mai&lt;/a&gt; che interviene sulla torcida infiammata di “Caravan To Your Destiny”, aprendola verso nuovi scenari di nirvanica serenità zen – e si sente – e in coda a “Simum”, il suono del peyote-addicted trasfigurato dagli ultimi &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Yakuza" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Yakuza&lt;/a&gt; – e non si sente –. Non per cercare la gratuita polemica a tutti i costi, ma la lista di formazioni tricolore che si sono avvalse dell’intervento ad opera in corso del sassofonista romano prima dei Nostri, dai &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Dead%20Elephant" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Dead Elephant&lt;/a&gt; in poi, tende ad un limite infinito. Sicuramente migliori, parlando di do ut des, le abrasioni di “Man’s Theory”, arzigogolato post-core in controtempo suonato sul filo del rasoio, con la partecipazione di &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Ben%20Ward" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Ben Ward&lt;/a&gt;, degli &lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/goto/Orange%20Goblin" style="color: #dc4600; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Orange Goblin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;“Maktub”, in arabo, significa “così è scritto”. Impossibile calcolare quante volte dischi del genere siano stati scritti. Prendiamo quanto c’è di buono e rilanciamo, provocatoriamente, verso una maturità a venire nel prossimo futuro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marco Biasio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.storiadellamusica.it/"&gt;www.storiadellamusica.it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-6983579459155294692?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/6983579459155294692/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-on-storia-della-musica-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6983579459155294692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6983579459155294692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-on-storia-della-musica-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;STORIA DELLA MUSICA&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P_2dhBV2DNw/ThXNRRdozhI/AAAAAAAAAWE/cSPZy-JKTSQ/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-5746889933207236105</id><published>2011-06-24T06:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-24T06:34:30.924-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Perkele.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'PERKELE.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;7,5/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b_h-mL__ETc/TgSR6tFTjUI/AAAAAAAAAV8/r04-EGulC_A/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621778672585510210" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;Difficile scrivere di un disco come "Maktub", terza uscita dei pescaresi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Zippo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;. Autentica rivelazione stoner rock con il primo album "Ode to Maximum", conferma e maturazione eccellente con "Road to Knowledge" (che ha fatto gridare al miracolo ben oltre le aspettative), consacrazione definitiva con questo nuovo parto. È difficile parlarne soprattutto per chi ha visto gli Zippo all'opera dal vivo: è quella la vera dimensione del gruppo. Su disco ancora non si riesce ad imprimere a pieno tale potenza, quella sfrenata carica che le assi del palco ed il volume degli amplificatori generano. Paradosso dei paradossi, era proprio l'acerbo (forse proprio per questo tanto immediato) "Ode to Maximum" a restituire al meglio il feeling che Davide e compagni emanano on stage (che sia in un grande festival o in un piccolo club davanti a dieci persone, altro aspetto da lodare fino alla morte).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;La produzione di "Maktub" fa un passo avanti rispetto a "Road to Knowledge" (vero punto debole di quell'album), levigando sì i suoni ma ponendoli su un livello qualitativo piuttosto alto. Penetranti, quadrati, freddi e al tempo stesso &lt;i&gt;groovy&lt;/i&gt;. Si percepisce l'operato di Victor Love e di James Plotkin che in quel di New York ha curato il mastering. Soprattutto, "Maktub" suona Zippo. Ormai la band abruzzese ha una cifra caratteristica, uno stile personale. E questo è il più grande dei meriti. La psichedelia heavy è mutata (e mutante): nei sette brani del disco si alternano (post) metal, progressive rock, stoner. Splendida al solito la voce di Dave; intricate e stratificate le chitarre di Sergente e Franz; tentacolari e ossessive le ritmiche di Stonino (basso) e Federico (batteria); artwork e design (opera di Stonino) meravigliosi, da incorniciare in casa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;Canzoni quali "The Personal Legend", "Caravan to Your Destiny" e "The Treasure" denotano sicurezza dei propri mezzi e delle proprie capacità, voglia di osare pur rimanendo fedeli ad un "genere". Parlare di Mastodon, Kyuss, Tool, francamente non ha alcun senso. L'apice lo si raggiunge nella parte centrale del disco: "Man of Theory" intreccia pesantezza, ricercatezza e aggressività (guest vocals il buon Ben Ward from Orange 'fuckin' Goblin); "We, People's Hearts" dilata i tempi e nell'oscurità dark delle atmosfere scava fantastiche e&lt;i&gt;appiccicose&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt; melodie; "Simum" è psichedelia liquida, abissale, naturistica, esaltata dal sax insinuante di Luca T. Mai (Zu, Mombu). È questa strada che gli Zippo devono battere, perché è dove riescono meglio. «Così è scritto.»&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;Alessandro Zoppo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;www.perkele.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-5746889933207236105?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/5746889933207236105/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-perkeleit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5746889933207236105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5746889933207236105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-perkeleit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;PERKELE.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b_h-mL__ETc/TgSR6tFTjUI/AAAAAAAAAV8/r04-EGulC_A/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-1773806037440425027</id><published>2011-06-12T09:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T16:04:17.279-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Metal Wave'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'METALWAVE.IT' (Italy) - TOP ALBUM</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 15px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 15px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 15px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;91/100&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 15px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_NNQx2zxHQY/TfTnsshoslI/AAAAAAAAAV0/bf8XRitKAyY/s320/200x180.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 180px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617369390290350674" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 15px; "&gt;Osservate, per approcciare il nuovo “Maktub” degli Zippo, la copertina. È un’immagine strana: accattivante ma sfuggente, vagamente fredda e criptica, ma non asettica; quasi impalpabile, ma non astrusa; intimista, ma comunque chiara. Sembra un’immagine dalla doppia personalità, della quale si riesce a cogliere ognuno di questi elementi separatamente, ma mai insieme.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 15px; "&gt;Il terzo album dei pescaresi Zippo è così. È un album che a differenza dello strutturato, lungo e diviso in vari capitoli, nonché precedente “The Road To Knowledge”, è un album che in poco più di 37 minuti condensa 7 canzoni dalle atmosfere molto rarefatte, amorfe, con una batteria praticamente sempre in tempi dispari, un basso che tesse incessante le sue tele, con le chitarre che disegnano trame acide e psichedeliche, ma che non sono quasi mai sopra le righe o predominanti, salvo nei momenti più duri di “Man Of Theory”, rispetto agli altri strumenti pur se contortissime, e con un Dave che per tutto il disco disegna vocalizzi ora soffusi, ora più d’impatto. E il tutto è riversato in uno stile assolutamente ipnotico, unico e personalissimo, che abbatte ciò che di ordinario (poco) era presente nel precedente disco, e che fa entrare di diritto gli Zippo nello sperimentalismo più allucinato dei migliori nomi del genere. Il tutto viene sposato con una resa sonora abbastanza spessa, ma - senza impatto - morbida e praticamente senza spigoli, molto leggera e sognante, talmente tanto che si ha spesso l’impressione di ascoltare un disco jazz proprio per la morbidezza del suono, o alternative in altri frangenti (senza quindi i chitarroni tipici dello stoner). E tutto questo viene eseguito con una cangianza di stili pazzesca, che a volte cita la psichedelia di brani come “The Omens” e soprattutto “The Treasure”, altre volte torna ad essere più d’impatto tipicamente stoner, come nella bellissima “Man Of Theory”, mentre canzoni come “Simum” sono cantilenanti e assolutamente ossessive, per non parlare dell’altro highlight del disco, ovvero la grande “We, People’s Hearts”, che sembra quasi una ballad triste ma tumultuosa e su tempi dispari!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Se siete confusi, sappiate che questo disco ha spiazzato molto anche me, e prima di scrivere queste righe ho dovuto riascoltare il cd 4 volte, ma è un disco che, per quanto difficile da ascoltare, davvero non può che far fare piazza pulita agli Zippo, che mostrano con questo album di saper scrivere brani praticamente senza alcun limite di songwriting e di influenze. Certo, citando la precedente recensione su “The Road To Knowledge”, pare proprio che il brano rockettaro gli Zippo non vogliano farcelo sentire, ma dopo l’ascolto di questo disco (non l’avrei mai detto) non ne sento assolutamente il bisogno: gli Zippo ci vanno bene così, punto! Questo “Maktub” è un album praticamente senza difetti, progressivo e psichedelico. Davvero unico. Quasi impossibile da descrivere e recensire, ed unicamente da ascoltare. Il giudizio finale, sic et simpliciter, premia una band che ha veramente sfornato un capolavoro, che batte di gran lunga i suoi precedenti dischi, umilia i pochi punti deboli dei precedenti platter (ovvero trame di chitarra che nel secondo disco cominciavano a farsi un po’ prevedibili e sullo stesso solito stile), strapazza i luoghi comuni di questi generi musicali qui proposti, stritola i wannabes delle chitarre ribassate, ipnotizza l’ascoltatore e lo seduce attraverso veli di musica impalpabili, ma dannatamente efficaci. Chissà come accidenti hanno fatto a comporre questa pietra miliare!?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Snarl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;www.metalwave.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-1773806037440425027?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/1773806037440425027/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-metalwaveit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1773806037440425027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1773806037440425027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-metalwaveit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;METALWAVE.IT&apos; (Italy) - TOP ALBUM'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_NNQx2zxHQY/TfTnsshoslI/AAAAAAAAAV0/bf8XRitKAyY/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-7907245789072125630</id><published>2011-06-12T09:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T09:20:24.916-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rockambula'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ROCKAMBULA.COM' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px; "&gt;3,5/5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0XYI8GjEk2k/TfTmoG5jrJI/AAAAAAAAAVs/6GOyK2fBAxY/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617368211959032978" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px; " &gt;La Subsound Records è un etichetta che ci sta dando dentro pesante negli ultimi anni, il suo rooster vanta di eccezionali gruppi in cui la tecnica e l' originalità fanno davvero da padrone. Uno dei gruppi di punta dell' etichetta sono proprio gli Zippo, band dedita al Rock Psichedelico con venature Progressive e Sludge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;color: rgb(58, 58, 58); line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;C'è da dire, che la band tre album ha sfornato e tutti e tre sono diversi da loro, quanto meno si riesce a distinguerli facilmente ed ognuno di essi ha un punto di forza. Ad ogni modo con questo "Maktub", terzo disco della loro discografia, Stonino, Ferico, Dave, Sergente e Franz puntano sul connubio della qualità dell' audio con l' aggressività e le atmosfere baritonali. Insomma il risultato è più che buono, e "The Personal Legend", la traccia d' apertura del disco è il perfetto biglietto da visita. "Maktub" è un elegante disco che si fa ascoltare con mera scioltezza: "The Omens" e "Simum" sono particolari tracce in cui il pulsante basso è un elemento portante che dona alle tracce un fascino fuori dalla norma.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;color: rgb(58, 58, 58); line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Un'altra traccia che bisogna tener sotto occhio, anzi, sotto orecchio è "Man Theory" che vanta la preziosissima collaborazione di Ben Ward, voce dei grandiosi Orange Goblin. Insomma, per verdetto finale, questo "Maktub" è un disco che farà la felicità di molti e a prescindere da ciò, l' Italia non può che vantarsi di avere un gruppo come gli Zippo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vincenzo Scillia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;www.rockambula.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-7907245789072125630?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/7907245789072125630/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-rockambulacom-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7907245789072125630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7907245789072125630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-rockambulacom-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ROCKAMBULA.COM&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0XYI8GjEk2k/TfTmoG5jrJI/AAAAAAAAAVs/6GOyK2fBAxY/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-5620431407981731415</id><published>2011-06-12T09:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T09:16:18.568-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metalteamuk.net'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uk'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'METALTEAMUK' (UK)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;p align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SCJY9C19jsc/TfTlhQkm6kI/AAAAAAAAAVk/MlT0A9FOzCc/s320/200x180.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 180px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617366994784807490" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;No, I'm also confused as to why a band would name themselves after a pocket lighter manufacturer. I'm guessing here but, considering how deeply embedded in psych/stoner metal Zippo are, then the chances are they probably smoke more than their fare share of green. It figures then that they've probably got little coloured disposable versions laying about everywhere so it makes some sort of backward sense that they should find inspiration from them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Having not come across the band before, it's something of a surprise to learn that Maktub, an Arabic word meaning "destiny", is the Italian quintet's third album. From the off, it's clear they love to pound you like No Made Sense and Isis are want to do. They scream of the scattergun lunacy of Killing Joke, with a touch of Baroness alchemy thrown in, but also revel in tightening the screws to attack like their heroes, Mastodon. Maktub is determinedly experimental, thunderously riotous, and also burns with an in-built passion for all things cosmic. Take 'Caravan To Your Destiny', which tiptoes into your consciousness from gentle beginnings before proceeding to contort its backline until the strings begin to pinball around your skull. Quite a force when combined with Davide Straccione's vocal battery; an intriguing combination of Troy Sanders (Mastodon), Mike Patton (Faith No More) and Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age). He seems to revel in the whole innate lunacy of the track, throwing out an echoing power that lists maniacally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;They've dragged in some special guests for this one too. You'll find the baritone sax of Zu's Luca T. Mai, curiously popping up to add shredded drone and splintering feedback to the warbling star that is 'Simum', a good dose of The Orange Man Theory's Gabbo and Cinghio, who deliver the harmonised "roaring screams" for 'The Personal Legend' and, most notably, Orange Goblin's Ben Ward part-screaming part-narrating the most ludicrously obscure lyrics - "You can't turn lead into gold / Mercury means nothing to me" for the pistoning bruiser 'Man Of Theory'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: medium; "&gt;The first half of the album is seemingly all brawn and no brains - short tracks that hit you hard and run for cover before they really have time to make any meaningful impact. It's the equivalent of being the helplessly small boat caught in an almighty storm. The unpredictable ferocity with which you are blasted through from one side to the other is disorienting. Thankfully, as the track length increases and the squall abates the music comes back to you, finds a pattern and digs its heels in. By the time you spin the closer, 'The Treasure', you'll have discovered a band that have hit their stride and prove perfect companions to guide you through their chosen subject matter - the emotional journey home. Surely, listening to music shouldn't make you feel this exhausted though. By all means check this out, but do approach with caution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Skibeat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;www.metalteamuk.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-5620431407981731415?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/5620431407981731415/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-metalteamuk-uk.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5620431407981731415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5620431407981731415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-metalteamuk-uk.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;METALTEAMUK&apos; (UK)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SCJY9C19jsc/TfTlhQkm6kI/AAAAAAAAAVk/MlT0A9FOzCc/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-813807518896069832</id><published>2011-06-12T09:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T09:10:39.676-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Metalitalia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'METALITALIA' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; " &gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; " &gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; " &gt;&lt;b&gt;6/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yvLKprnQnhM/TfTkrU4b8mI/AAAAAAAAAVc/alF4KfUzWGM/s320/200x180.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 180px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617366068228780642" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Ci riprovano i nostri Zippo. La tecnica è enormemente migliorata, le capacità compositive appaiono decise e molto meno immature e il distacco auspicato da certi suoni grunge e addirittura nu metal (che avevano compromesso un debutto immaturo e ancora in fase "decisionale") è finalmente arrivato e sembra ora completo. Ma siamo sicuri che la direzione intrapresa dalla band abruzzese sia quella giusta? Renderà loro giustizia? Il problema sembra essere sempre lo stesso, insomma. Lo stesso che caratterizza tante altre valide entità del Bel Paese operanti anche in altri campi, sopratutto quello del post-hardcore, dove a parte dei sublimi imitatori non riusciamo a produrre altro. Se band come i Clutch, i Baroness, i Kylesa e i Mastodon (e questi sono solo i vip, ce ne sono a quintali e quintali di altre valide band simili!) già hanno tappato ogni buco disponibile in questo nuovo ma già inflazionato e sovrappopolato segmento di musica heavy che flirta col rock dei Seventies, perchè continuare ostinatamente a sbracciare per entrare in un mondo ormai saturo e dai tratti sempre più banali, solo perchè ultimamente suona tanto figo? Tutti vogliono farsi crescere le barbone, riempirsi di tatuaggi, scolare bidoni di birra, coltivare questa nuova/vecchia immagine da biker psiconauta, alzare a palla le Gibson e gli Orange, e unirsi alla festa più cool del vicinato...ma la casa qua straborda! Si può senz’altro sfoderare un bel dischetto, certo, come questo “Maktub” in fin dei conti è (anche se il suffisso -etto, ahinoi, non si toglie), ma il lavoro in questione è inevitabilmente destinato a vivere all’ombra lunghissima e inscrollabile di band, come quelle sopraccitate appunto, che questa roba l’hanno prima “inventata” e poi imposta ripetutamente (con merito o meno, ma questo è un altro discorso) su una scena ormai infarcita e satolla da fare schifo. Passa anche la voglia di descrivere più nello specifico le sonorità di un lavoro come “Maktub”, se dicendo semplicemente Baroness, Mastodon e Kylesa si è già praticamente arrivati al nocciolo centrale della questione. Il resto sarebbero solo dettagliucci prolissi che non aiuterebbero a capire meglio il lavoro, e non aggiungerebbero alcunchè a queste righe o al valore della band. Sludge metal, prog e rock seventies, ecco qua, si è detto praticamente tutto, e si torna inevitabilmente alle band sopraccitate. Non che uno lo vuole fare apposta, semplicemente non c’è via d’uscita. Gli Zippo sono probabilmente la migliore band nel genere che ci sia in Italia, ma ancora una volta la ciccia vera sta altrove; e non solo a Savannah in Georgia. Ultima menzione, se può interessare, va fatta alla presenza in veste di&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt; ospiti di Luca T. Mai (Zu) e di Ben Ward (Orange Goblin) in due pezzi, ma è troppo poco per riaprire il discorso.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "  &gt;&lt;b&gt;Mattia Alagna&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "  &gt;www.metalitalia.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-813807518896069832?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/813807518896069832/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-metalitalia-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/813807518896069832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/813807518896069832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-metalitalia-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;METALITALIA&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yvLKprnQnhM/TfTkrU4b8mI/AAAAAAAAAVc/alF4KfUzWGM/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-1046506812686196428</id><published>2011-06-12T09:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T09:07:35.762-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metalliville.co.uk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uk'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'METALLIVILLE' (UK)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;4.5/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qpCQvmFBzJM/TfTi6_wMQdI/AAAAAAAAAVU/bs_oikE9ZVY/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617364138411704786" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Not a relative of the puppet from Rainbow, Italy’s Zippo, greet me with an interestingly artistic cover design. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;Anticipating interestingly artistic music inside, is justified but comes somewhat out the wrong way, very horrendously at first. Slinging together alternative, punk, metal, garage, industrial and a sprinkle of eastern flavour as the album front probably indicates, the seven tunes mostly disappear under it in to indecipherable heaps of noise and no significant hooks or lines.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; " &gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Later numbers are a vague improvement but most of the time continue to come in too fast and carelessly with it all, wrecking what could have been a great record just as the front man’s pleasantly Pepper Keenan-like roar begins to come through.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sadly Zippo may remain zipped up for a while longer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Dave Attrill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;www.metalliville.co.uk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-1046506812686196428?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/1046506812686196428/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-metalliville-uk.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1046506812686196428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1046506812686196428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-metalliville-uk.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;METALLIVILLE&apos; (UK)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qpCQvmFBzJM/TfTi6_wMQdI/AAAAAAAAAVU/bs_oikE9ZVY/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-2776775351811940086</id><published>2011-06-03T06:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-03T07:12:35.278-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Heavyimpact.net'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'HEAVYIMPACT.NET' (Italy) - TOP ALBUM</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;9,5/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NgQs8Ufa3SA/Tejn9wL4W4I/AAAAAAAAAVM/uxAmnuvV5Sc/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613991983610092418" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;Avevo già affermato, su queste stesse pagine, che “The Road to Knowledge”, precedente lavoro in studio degli &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt;, era un piccolo capolavoro, e sinceramente non mi aspettavo che la band riuscisse a spiazzarmi dando alle stampe un lavoro superiore a quello già citato. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;“Maktub”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"&gt; è un lavoro affascinante ma è anche il compimento definitivo per la band.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;In realtà, già il precedente album sanciva la rilettura dello Stoner Rock degli esordi in maniera personale ed “elevata” rispetto agli standard canonici del genere. “Maktub” però riesce a fare di più; certo, la circolarità ossessiva tipica del genere, non abbandona mai completamente le nuove tracce ma queste si arricchiscono di sfumature e di colorazioni nuove. Siano essi accenti psichedelici, divagazioni di libero progressive o implosioni noise. Le sette tracce presenti risultano complete e non lasciano nulla al caso, sopperendo a qualche episodio che nel disco precedente restava un po’ indeterminato. Ancora una volta l’arma vincente della band, oltre che in una verve compositiva che spiazza per ricercatezza, è il timbro di Dave, capace sempre di creare scompensi emozionali. Un piccolo esempio di quanto detto è rappresentato da “We, People's Hearts”, brano dalle melodie contemplative.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Naturalmente, come da tradizione, anche i temi del disco si discostano da qualsiasi bieca forma di banalità e questa volta prendono spunto dagli scritti di &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Paulo Coelho&lt;/strong&gt; e dal suo testo “Maktub”. Uno scritto che enfatizza il viaggio come fecondo esperire, ed anche in questo caso il riflesso dei testi trova completezza nelle strutture sonore tutte, che proprio in virtù del tema concettuale si svelano entro orizzonti sempre nuovi (“Simum” e “Caravan To Your Destiny”, godono dei destabilizzanti latrati del sax di Luca T. Mai degli Zu). Altra presenza di “peso” è quella di Ben Ward degli Orange Goblin, che da il suo cantato roco ed intenso a “Man Of Theory”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Concludendo, ad oggi gli &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt; sono una delle realtà più convincenti della scena europea. Una band che capitolo dopo capitolo riafferma una crescita musicale senza pari. Loro hanno scelto la via dinamica del viaggio e per questo eludono restrizioni, e per questo necessitano di ascoltatori liberi e curiosi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Un capolavoro, registrato, prodotto e concepito in casa nostra. Un vero e proprio spartiacque tra chi ancora imita la scena di Palm Desert e chi ha deciso di interiorizzare la stessa e filtrarla attraverso una personalità vibrante ed una qualità compositiva avara di cadute di stile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;'Cammina tante strade, ritorna alla tua casa, e vedi ogni cosa come se fosse la prima volta’. Paulo Coelho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Andrea Angelino&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.heavyimpact.net/"&gt;www.heavyimpact.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-2776775351811940086?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/2776775351811940086/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-heavyimpactnet-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2776775351811940086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2776775351811940086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-heavyimpactnet-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;HEAVYIMPACT.NET&apos; (Italy) - TOP ALBUM'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NgQs8Ufa3SA/Tejn9wL4W4I/AAAAAAAAAVM/uxAmnuvV5Sc/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-6886466111259192675</id><published>2011-06-03T06:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-03T06:59:04.294-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aristocrazia Webzine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ARISTOCRAZIA WEBZINE' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n9tX-_VftiU/TejmV4reECI/AAAAAAAAAVE/Vn7j66e1bIY/s320/200x180.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 180px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613990199183675426" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;Ci sono artisti che, dopo aver dato alla luce dei dischi buoni o ottimi, si accontentano di quanto già fatto e si limitano a cambiare qualche dettaglio in una formula che si è già rivelata funzionante. Ci sono artisti che, consapevoli di saper costruire un prodotto facile da integrare nel loro ambito di riferimento, si fossilizzano su una sonorità semplice da apprezzare, diretta e costante. E poi ci sono artisti che non si accontentano di quanto già fatto, che vogliono andare oltre, che hanno altre ambizioni. Artisti che rischiano. Ed è proprio questo il caso dei nostrani Zippo, giunti con questo "Maktub" alla loro terza fatica, quella che qualcuno ama definire "della maturità". E bisogna proprio dirlo, il quintetto pescarese, qui, ha rischiato. E ha vinto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"  &gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Già sulla carta era facile intuire che "Maktub" fosse un progetto ambizioso: realizzato con la partecipazione di Ben Ward degli Orange Goblin, che ci regala una bella prestazione vocale nella parte finale di "Man Of Theory" e di Luca Mai degli Zu, affidato a gente del calibro di Victor Love e James Plotkin (Isis, Sunn 0))), Earth), rispettivamente alla registrazione e al mastering, e appoggiato subito dopo l’uscita da un ampio tour europeo. L’intenzione del gruppo era probabilmente quella di sfondare i confini e di imporsi come un nome in ambito internazionale. E’ presto per dire se ci siano riusciti, ma sicuramente, era molto difficile fare meglio di così.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Maktub" è infatti un lavoro pregno di personalità e di difficile classificazione; è psichedelia, ragionamento, poca linearità e tanta cervelloticità nella musica, è poesia ed ecletticità nei testi. Già l’artwork e, successivamente, l’opener "“The Personal Legend" ci preannunciano ciò a cui ci stiamo avvicinando: un album che anche nei suoi momenti di più semplice comprensione, come la stessa o la splendida "We, People’s Hearts", non mancherà di stupirci e stordirci con intrecci di chitarra e basso, assolutamente impossibili da seguire ad un primo ascolto, e una linea vocale imprevedibile, che talvolta preferisce girare intorno alle note piuttosto che semplicemente adagiarvisi, e spesso è "doppia". Ma, come detto, la traccia d’apertura è solo l’inizio: i sette pezzi che compongono il disco sono molto differenti tra di loro, ma condividono, seppur in misure diverse, elementi quasi sempre comuni: le distorsioni e i muri sonori che riconducono alle loro origini stoner sono accompagnati da passaggi progressivi talvolta ispirati ai Tool, lievi spruzzate di post-rock e affini, continui cambi tematici e ritmici, atmosfere che spaziano dal sinistro al dolce o al mistico. Il mix che ne risulta lascia confusi ad un primo approccio, ma una volta afferrata la sua armonia, non delude mai, neanche per un attimo. Non c’è un vero e proprio picco più alto, o pezzo migliore: ogni composizione ha il suo perchè, alla psichedelia dilagante di "The Omens" e "The Treasure" si contrappongono la più pacata "Caravan To Your Destiny", la più distorta "Man Of Theory", la riflessiva "Simum" e le più dirette ed emotive "The Personal Legend" o "We, People's Hearts".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;"Maktub" è curato in ogni minimo dettaglio: la durata è perfetta e la prestazione tecnica dei cinque ragazzi mastodontica: le chitarre rabbiose di Sergente e Franz, le preziosissime note di basso di Stonino e l’impeccabile comparto ritmico curato da Ferico non smetteranno mai di mescolarsi e ingarbugliarsi tra loro, a supporto della voce forte, carica di pathos e dal timbro inconfondibile dell’ottimo Dave, che saprà davvero dare un’interpretazione grandiosa alle splendide liriche.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E a proposito delle liriche, c’è da dire che anche da questo punto di vista "Maktub" è davvero portentoso: mi sono trovato personalmente quasi commosso davanti alla carica di pezzi come la già citata "We, People's Hearts", stanza molto intimista che trasmette un messaggio di vita davvero bello, e credo davvero che l’impegno compositivo che sta dietro ai testi meriti una menzione speciale: gli Zippo ispirati, pare, all’"Alchimista" di Coelho ci spingono a guardare dentro di noi, i nostri sogni, le nostre aspettative, a buttarci nella vita come trascinati dal vento, a migliorarci, a inseguire sempre le nostre aspettative, a non tirarci indietro; lo fanno a volte in modo diretto, a volte in modo oscuro, con l’ausilio di immagini e metafore, ma mai, in nessun'occasione, in modo banale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Tutto questo può essere riassunto in un solo aggettivo: maturo. Gli Zippo, terzo album o no, hanno saputo dar vita ad un prodotto dalle caratteristiche uniche e inconfondibili, e credo proprio che questo possa essere considerato a tutti gli effetti il loro capolavoro. Unico difetto: non è un disco da ascoltare con distrazione, non è un disco "facile": chi vuole avvicinarsi a questo lavoro deve farlo con il preciso intento di capirlo. E non ne resterà scontento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fedaykin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://aristocraziawebzine.blogspot.com/"&gt;aristocraziawebzine.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-6886466111259192675?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/6886466111259192675/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-aristocrazia-webzine-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6886466111259192675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6886466111259192675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-aristocrazia-webzine-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ARISTOCRAZIA WEBZINE&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n9tX-_VftiU/TejmV4reECI/AAAAAAAAAVE/Vn7j66e1bIY/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-8817454172183299059</id><published>2011-06-03T06:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-03T06:41:02.570-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stordisco.blogspot.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'STORDISCO' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;4/5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7RhkdeQPITs/TejjuPwbP8I/AAAAAAAAAU8/tI_w9Yr-cX8/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613987319160455106" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;Ancor prima di ascoltare questo terzo lavoro dei pescaresi Zippo, sapevo di andare incontro a qualcosa di grosso. Anzitutto un grande plauso va alla band per l'ottimo packaging e in particolar modo al bassista Stonino per lo stupefacente artwork del disco. Allontanatisi dalle origini stoner kyussiane, Dave (vocals), Sergente (guitars), Franz (guitars), Stonino (bass) e Ferico (drums) ci presentano un album complesso e intrigante che si dimena nello sfuggire alla catalogazione di genere. Parliamo di suoni mastodontici, di una band tecnicamente ineccepibile. Due chitarre intrecciate in un vortice abrasivo, un basso pulsante come un cuore prima di un infarto, un drumming portentoso, micidiale, il tutto guidato dall'onnipresenza sciamanica della voce del frontman. Stoner-metal immerso in fiumi di psichedelia, minimalismo e prog che lascia tramortiti già al primo ascolto. Scelta più che azzeccata quella degli Zippo di affidarsi a due guru &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;del calibro di Victor Love e James Plotkin (Khanate, Sunn O)), Isis) rispettivamente alla produzione ed al mixaggio. Ma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;ktub si apre diretto e istantaneo con "The Personal Legend" che prepotentemente ci trascina all'interno di questa spirale di suoni corposi. I giri di basso e le atmosfere di "The Omens", rimandano inequivocabilmente ai Tool di Maynard. Un brano acido che scivola via come un mantra sabbatico. La grande maturità artistica del cantante Dave, emerge sempre più nel piegare la propria voce all' esigenza atmosferica di ogni singolo brano. "Caravan on Your Destiny"ospita il sax baritono di Luca Mai (Zu,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://stordisco.blogspot.com/2011/05/mombu-st-recensione.html" style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(7, 81, 149); text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "&gt;Mombu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;) e prosegue sulla scia trascendentale e apocalittica della precedente "The Omens" lasciando aperto sempre uno spiraglio a melodie elaborate e suoni ricercati quasi chirurgicamente in un mare di fuoco e fiamme. Poi con "Man of Theory" siamo sbalzati via verso un aumento di tensione e un pathos esplosivo che culmina sul finale con la recita mistica di un'ospite del calibro di Ben Ward (Orange Goblin) alternata ad esplosioni che innalzano muri di detriti sonori. "We People's Heart" esordisce con un palpitare da muscolo cardiaco. Una traccia molto intimista nella quale Dave rende la sua voce morbida, a tratti fantasmagorica, nello splendido crescendo di atmosfera che ci rende pieni di orgoglio nel pensare alle origini degli Zippo, ai grandi riconoscimenti di una band che gode di maggior seguito all'estero rispetto alla penisola autoctona. Maktub vanta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span&gt; anche una grande cura testuale. Pur non concentrandosi su un unico concept (come il precedente "The Road to Knowledge") l'ispirazione lirica di questa maestosa opera proviene da "L'Alchimista" di Paulo Coelho. A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "&gt; contribuire alla spinta esotica e più intima della traccia, in "Simum", ritroviamo il sax baritono di Luca Mai. E' questa penultima traccia, a ritagliarsi, probabilmente, un posto d'eccellenza all'interno di Maktub. Qui la voce polimorfa di Dave appare molto vicina a certe inclinazioni di Serj Tankian. A chiudere in bellezza "The Treasure" nella quale la carica prog, nel tessere trame melodiche e reiterate in modo ossessivo della band, emerge in tutta la sua grandezza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Maktub è probabilmente il capolavoro degli Zippo. E' un disco niente affatto facile, destinato a svariati ascolti, nell'alzare il livello di sopportazione di certa psichedelia. Gli amanti del genere non hanno nulla da temere e si troveranno dinanzi ad una perla di inedito valore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;"Così è scritto"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Michele Montagnano&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://stordisco.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://stordisco.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-8817454172183299059?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/8817454172183299059/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-stordisco-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8817454172183299059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8817454172183299059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/review-on-stordisco-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;STORDISCO&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7RhkdeQPITs/TejjuPwbP8I/AAAAAAAAAU8/tI_w9Yr-cX8/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-4789758770651850657</id><published>2011-05-11T15:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-13T13:42:12.527-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rock Hard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>INTERVIEW ON 'ROCK HARD' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JxOORSmt-oA/TcsK61Fv96I/AAAAAAAAAT8/6D9elOYyoNY/s1600/Rock%2BHard%2BMaggio%2B2011.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JxOORSmt-oA/TcsK61Fv96I/AAAAAAAAAT8/6D9elOYyoNY/s320/Rock%2BHard%2BMaggio%2B2011.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605586166992598946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;ROCK HARD ITALY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;maggio 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KI31exUu1u0/TcsLNOc9JDI/AAAAAAAAAUE/ng4e-OI7GjA/s320/Zippo_Interview_RockHard2011small.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605586483038463026" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;click here for larger image&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;http://i51.tinypic.com/2v9dv6e.jpg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-4789758770651850657?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/4789758770651850657/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/interview-on-rock-hard-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/4789758770651850657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/4789758770651850657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/interview-on-rock-hard-italy.html' title='INTERVIEW ON &apos;ROCK HARD&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JxOORSmt-oA/TcsK61Fv96I/AAAAAAAAAT8/6D9elOYyoNY/s72-c/Rock%2BHard%2BMaggio%2B2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-3055604423131362915</id><published>2011-05-11T15:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-13T13:42:12.936-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rumore'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'RUMORE' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-03ciRPHGwHk/TcsIl6v0mWI/AAAAAAAAATs/H4ClXsuN68E/s1600/cover232_.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 236px; height: 303px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-03ciRPHGwHk/TcsIl6v0mWI/AAAAAAAAATs/H4ClXsuN68E/s320/cover232_.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605583608710732130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;RUMORE MAGAZINE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;nr. 232 - maggio 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://oi52.tinypic.com/j64lg8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and on the same issue:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vhuWcxNurY8/TcsOdoJWJ1I/AAAAAAAAAUM/bQt0XHdA0Mw/s320/12052011070.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605590063348328274" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-3055604423131362915?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/3055604423131362915/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-on-rumore-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3055604423131362915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3055604423131362915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-on-rumore-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;RUMORE&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-03ciRPHGwHk/TcsIl6v0mWI/AAAAAAAAATs/H4ClXsuN68E/s72-c/cover232_.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-8343745727943084398</id><published>2011-05-11T14:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-03T07:13:10.016-07:00</updated><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'METAL.IT' (Italy) - TOP ALBUM</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;8/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wuMmV53LEWo/TcsBKCpGUuI/AAAAAAAAATk/5MkgNF6hbs8/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605575433212285666" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Gli abruzzesi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Zippo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt; giungono con merito al terzo album, quello che di solito viene considerato “della maturità” per una formazione. Nel presente caso la definizione è senz’altro accettabile, giacchè Maktub, oltre ad essere un lavoro di notevole spessore, mette definitivamente a fuoco la personalità del gruppo italiano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un disco complesso, sfaccettato, intrigante, non troppo cerebrale ma neppure banalmente semplicistico, com’è nella natura del quintetto pescarese. Definirlo album di stoner rock o altro è estremamente riduttivo, perché propone musica che sfugge a precise classificazioni. I brani sono infatti costituiti dall’intreccio di svariati elementi: l’irruenta esplosività metallica, il pulsare ritmico kyussiano, la leggerezza di certe atmosfere psichedeliche, elaborate soluzioni tecniche e perfino inusuali vibrazioni jazz-rock. Anche la parte vocale si tiene lontana dai ritornelli d’effetto, puntando invece sull’alternanza di urla rabbiose e profondità più riflessive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Particolari che emergono al crescere degli ascolti, permettendo al disco di non esaurire l’interesse nel giro di pochi giorni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A titolo d’esempio, una canzone come “Simum” può evocare immagini e profumi sahariani, dune spazzate dal vento caldo del deserto, caravanserragli e sabbia infuocata, ma racchiude in sé anche qualcosa di metropolitano, una urgenza più legata a nastri d’asfalto e vapori industriali, nello stridore distorto del sax di Luca Mei (Zu) presente anche nella bella ed articolata “Caravan to your destiny”. Altro importante ospite è Ben Ward, irsuto vocalist dei pionieri Orange Goblin, che interviene in “Man of theory” a testimonianza della valenza extra-italica meritatamente conquistata dagli Zippo. Inoltre viene confermata l’ottima preparazione tecnica degli abruzzesi, mentre produzione e artwork sono pienamente entro i migliori standard attuali.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un album splendidamente irregolare, pieno di sussulti, spirali, stacchi, variazioni, frutto di un tessuto sonoro malleabile che viene plasmato in una pletora di forme dissimili. Peccato che proprio qui in Italia resterà probabilmente patrimonio di una ristretta cerchia di estimatori. Gran bel lavoro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fabrizio 'Stonerman' Bertogliatti&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia; line-height: 15px; font-size: medium; "&gt;www.metal.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-8343745727943084398?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/8343745727943084398/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-on-metalit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8343745727943084398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8343745727943084398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-on-metalit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;METAL.IT&apos; (Italy) - TOP ALBUM'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wuMmV53LEWo/TcsBKCpGUuI/AAAAAAAAATk/5MkgNF6hbs8/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-4728648397957869173</id><published>2011-05-02T14:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T14:39:10.047-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fuori dal Mucchio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'FUORI DAL MUCCHIO' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mfFF8_4j4sA/Tb8i_PSkkUI/AAAAAAAAATc/3U_yujQeOqE/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602234931303715138" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Posto come un sigillo irrevocabile e indissolubile “Maktub”, terzo disco dei pescaresi Zippo, &lt;/span&gt;sancisce una ulteriore crescita nel sound e nella complessità delle composizioni, che dallo stoner desertico di “The Road To Knowledge” si getta più in là, verso i lidi cervellotici dei Tool, per immergersi in spirali metal da cui è difficile non farsi risucchiare, nelle sue ramificazioni prog e nei sobbalzi sludge. Sempre forte il legame che stringe la band ai rimandi letterari, in questo caso volte alle pagine intimiste e sacrali de “L’Alchimista” di Paulo Coelho, a cui le sette tracce di Maktub sono fortemente ispirate e legate da un filo conduttore elettrico e forte di un magnetismo oscuro. Laddove l’ombra dei Tool campeggia dietro i riff circolari e le esplosioni telluriche di “The Omens” o nelle spirali sulfuree di “Caravan To Your Destiny”, è nei climax di “We People’s Heart” che il cuore tormentato degli Zippo si libra impetuoso in tutta la sua eleganza e possanza, tra arabeschi e atmosfere fumose che esplodono in vortici saturi di carica elettrica, o nell’apporto di Ben Ward degli Orange Goblin a tinteggiare di pece le mura vorticose di “Man Of Theory”. E il caos continua inarrestabile in “Simum”, dove il sax di Luca T. Mai degli Zu deflagra i riff mantrici nel caos primordiale, eclissandosi in un vorticoso buco nero sonoro. “Maktub” è un flusso di coscienze tormentate in cui arrampicarsi fra le sue guglie tortuose implica un esperienza catartica. Un disco metal fatto come Dio Metallo comanda. “Maktub”, “così è scritto”, e non si torna indietro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt; Luca Minutolo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ilmucchio.it/pdf/fdm_87.pdf"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;www.ilmucchio.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-4728648397957869173?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/4728648397957869173/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-on-fuori-dal-mucchio.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/4728648397957869173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/4728648397957869173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-on-fuori-dal-mucchio.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;FUORI DAL MUCCHIO&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mfFF8_4j4sA/Tb8i_PSkkUI/AAAAAAAAATc/3U_yujQeOqE/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-5974977749289608621</id><published>2011-04-26T09:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T09:49:39.478-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Osservatoriesterni.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'GLI OSSERVATORI ESTERNI' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;7,5/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; " &gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dEjDBxv8gEM/Tbb3SLU0cyI/AAAAAAAAATU/euQfyfNTYCM/s320/200x180.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 180px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599935078331609890" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Seguo gli Zippo da quando il loro batterista lavorava in un bar di Pescara vicino casa mia. Seguo gli Zippo da quando, a un IndieRocketFestival del 2005, Sergente mi confessò di aver appena sciolto un gruppo punk per formarne uno stoner. Seguo gli Zippo da quando Silvio (ex chitarrista) lasciò la sua camera ai collegi di Urbino per fare spazio al sottoscritto. Seguo gli Zippo da quando aprirono per &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Brant Bjork &lt;/strong&gt;al First Floor di Montesilvano. Seguo gli Zippo da &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;"Ode To Maximum"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, l'esordio un tantino acerbo ma che lasciava presagire un'evoluzione allucinante della trama. Seguo gli Zippo da &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;"Road To Knowledge"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, entusiasmante seconda prova in studio del quintetto pescarese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Con qualcosa come cinque tour internazionali alle spalle ed un mare di collaborazioni in giro per l'Europa, per la band si respirava aria di verdetto finale, e la tensione attorno all'uscita del terzo album in studio un fardello sempre più pesante. &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;"Maktub"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; è un disco incredibile, il migliore della band, un lavoro che naviga a testa alta ai confini dell'Europa! Se esistesse una competizione fra "release alternative", "Maktub" spazzerebbe via tutti, e si trascinerebbe dietro pure le carcasse. Non c'è storia ragazzi: quando ad accendersi sono le chitarre di &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Franz/Sergente&lt;/strong&gt; o il laboratorio ritmico &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Stonino/ Federico&lt;/strong&gt;, c'è un'unica cosa da fare: appendere lo strumento al chiodo e godersi lo spettacolo, rigorosamente a testa bassa per chi non li avesse nemmeno sentiti nominare. E' un disco suonato come dio comanda, quello pensato in collaborazione con &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Luca Mai&lt;/strong&gt; degli &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Zu&lt;/strong&gt; e il grandissimo B&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;en Ward&lt;/strong&gt; degli &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Orange Goblin&lt;/strong&gt;, che presta la sua voce nella folgorante &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;"Man Of Theory"&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Pazzesca è l'evoluzione del quintetto, che passa da uno stoner derivativo (e tipicamente kyussiano) degli esordi a un post metal dall'approccio cervellotico e una ricerca della melodia costantemente in primo piano. &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Il cantato di Dave si porta dietro qualcosa di epico, di leggendario; qualcosa di paradisiaco, di liberatorio. I suoi vocalizzi, più che tracce registrate, sono marce di conquista, praterie rase al suolo, ululati possenti. &lt;/strong&gt;A parlare è un cantato mastodontico, mai ripetitivo, magistrale nei passaggi chiave. &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;"The Omens"&lt;/em&gt; è un capolavoro senza compromessi!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Un album difficile e complesso, 7 tracce che a primo impatto potrebbero dir poco, ma che una volta assimilate rischiano di far male veramente. L'approccio math dell'apertura di &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;"The Personal Legend" &lt;/em&gt;è il risultato di tanti anni di gavetta, tra pulmini poco confortevoli e voli low coast all'ultimo momento. Un'arditezza tecnica da far invidia a tutta la scena stoner. Se c'è una cosa che non manca agli &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt;, questo è il coraggio di sperimentare trame impossibili in un disco che di commerciale non ha nemmeno l'artwork di copertina. E ricordatevi che dopo Malleus c'è Stonino: la psichedelia senza LSD.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Fuori dai circuiti, fuori da ogni scena, dagli italianissimi Zippo c'è solo da imparare. Acquistate "Maktub" e vi si aprirà un mondo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Orasputin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.osservatoriesterni.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-5974977749289608621?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/5974977749289608621/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-gli-osservatori-esterni-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5974977749289608621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5974977749289608621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-gli-osservatori-esterni-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;GLI OSSERVATORI ESTERNI&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dEjDBxv8gEM/Tbb3SLU0cyI/AAAAAAAAATU/euQfyfNTYCM/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-6840782752496645400</id><published>2011-04-26T09:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T09:46:03.153-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Headbang.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'HEADBANG.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;8/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fmjKnhSmQCo/Tbb1-77TauI/AAAAAAAAATM/rj_RFMq3w_Y/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599933648268913378" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Li avevamo lasciati due anni fa con quel piccolo gioiellino di nome &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;The Road to Knowledge&lt;/i&gt;, li ritroviamo (con estremo piacere) oggi con &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt;; nel mezzo roventi tour europei a supporto della propria musica, ed un sempre più crescente interesse destato da una proposta che di album in album è sempre più matura e si plasma capitolo dopo capitolo con una naturalezza che sembra avere pochi eguali all'interno della scena underground italica.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Se il precedente lavoro rappresentava un passo avanti rispetto alle primigenie sonorità &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;stoner&lt;/i&gt;prerogativa del primo corso della band pescarese, possiamo dire con la necessaria tranquillità che&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt; compie un ulteriore salto di qualità ponendosi al vertice delle produzioni musicali di una band in continua evoluzione.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Affidatisi a veri e propri guru del calibro di &lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Victor Love&lt;/b&gt; e &lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;James Plotkin&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Khanate, Sunn O)), Isis&lt;/i&gt;) rispettivamente alla produzione ed al mixaggio, la band abruzzese tira così fuori un vero e proprio gioiello in cui la componente più progressiva e minimale prende il sopravvento, ed in cui ogni tassello sembra inserito alla perfezione all'interno di un contesto musicale sempre più intricato, in cui sembra ora essere la sezione ritmica a farla da padrone con sonorità pachidermiche capaci di valorizzare anche il lavoro minuzioso delle chitarre che disegnano trame acide e psichedeliche che donano alla musica del quintetto quella componente più "post" che i nostri non hanno mai nascosto nel corso degli anni e che sembra rappresentare l'unica variabile costante della loro proposta.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In tale contesto va rimarcata anche la prestazione incredibile di &lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Dave&lt;/b&gt; dietro al microfono, il cui cantato ha raggiunto una maturità sorprendente specie nelle capacità interpretative che vanno di pari passo con l'evolversi della musica stessa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt; non è un album semplice, è un lavoro che richiede diversi ascolti prima di carpirne al meglio l'essenza, e quando ti prende difficilmente lo si toglie dal lettore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La produzione è tanto scarna quanto perfettamente adattata al tipo di proposta, i suoni sono sempre ricercati sia nei brani più "diretti" come l'opener &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;The Personal Legend&lt;/i&gt; sia in quelli più intricati ed intimisti come la splendida &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;We, People's Heart&lt;/i&gt; o in &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Simum&lt;/i&gt; che si avvale dell'ospitata di&lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Luca T.Mai&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Zu&lt;/i&gt;) al sax baritono così come in &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Caravan to your Destiny&lt;/i&gt; a parere del sottoscritto il miglior pezzo dell'intero lavoro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Rispetto al precedente lavoro non c'è spazio per l'inserimento di strumentazioni meno "ordinarie", tranne che per quelle già descritte ma in compenso a dare un ulteriore tocco di classe ci pensa anche la partecipazione del secondo "guest" del calibro di &lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Ben Ward&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Orange Goblin&lt;/i&gt;) che presta le sue vocals ad un altro brano di assoluto valore, quella &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Man of Theory&lt;/i&gt; caratterizzata da una progressione ed un pathos entusiasmanti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dal punto di vista concettuale rispetto al precedente &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;The Road to Knowledge&lt;/i&gt; non siamo più in presenza di un concept, non mancano tuttavia i riferimenti letterari nei testi scritti dallo stesso&lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Dave&lt;/b&gt; ed ispirati da "L'Alchimista" di Paulo Coelho, opera che ha evidentemente influenzato anche a livello musicale la band.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt; rappresenta insomma il capolavoro degli &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Zippo&lt;/i&gt;, una band in costante crescita che non ha paura di evolversi e di esplorare territori sempre nuovi ed avanguardistici. Non stiamo parlando certo di un lavoro immediato o di facile presa, ma di una proposta che sa ipnotizzare e creare al meglio atmosfere davvero come pochi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Descriverne a parole l'essenza viene davvero difficile, tante sono le sensazioni e le influenze che ne forgiano il sound. Suoni ricercati, riverberi di chitarra, ripartenze improvvise e sonorità acide sono solo alcuni riferimenti da prendere in considerazione nel valutare la proposta.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;L'unica risposta plausibile alla domanda (lecita per carità): "ma cosa suonano gli Zippo?", è prendere &lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt; ascoltarlo e riascoltarlo successivamente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Gli stati d'animo saranno diversi e se inizialmente rimarrete disorientati, nessun problema...è successo anche a me! Per quanto mi riguarda finora l'album dell'anno.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;Thrasher&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;www.headbang.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-6840782752496645400?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/6840782752496645400/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-headbangit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6840782752496645400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6840782752496645400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-headbangit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;HEADBANG.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fmjKnhSmQCo/Tbb1-77TauI/AAAAAAAAATM/rj_RFMq3w_Y/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-2439277827609495971</id><published>2011-04-26T09:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T09:41:25.246-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zwaremetalen.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Netherlands'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ZWAREMETALEN.COM' (Netherlands)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;79/100&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-svuOwsVx33A/Tbb04Deq44I/AAAAAAAAATE/NF-KMbRbZMg/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599932430525588354" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Het Italiaanse &lt;i&gt;Zippo&lt;/i&gt; is terug met zijn derde album, &lt;i&gt;Zippo&lt;/i&gt;. Men liet hiervoor niets aan het toeval over en huurde James Plotkin in voor de behandeling van de plaat. Ook ene Ben Ward (&lt;i&gt;Orange Goblin&lt;/i&gt;) deed zijn (gast)bijdrage in dit progressieve stonergezelschap, op het nummer&lt;i&gt;Man of Theory&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Pure stoner kun je het bezwaarlijk noemen, dit &lt;i&gt;Maktub&lt;/i&gt;. Het tempo ligt met momenten erg hoog en zelfs wanneer dat niet het geval is hoor je drukke drumpatronen die de gemiddelde stoner uit zijn roes zouden doen ontwaken. Psychedelisch is het wel, en progressief des te meer. De rockinvloeden waar op geteerd wordt komen van bands als&lt;i&gt;Soundgarden&lt;/i&gt;, maar even goed van een emotioneel beladen &lt;i&gt;Deftones&lt;/i&gt;. Een stevige basis dus waar op geb(l)o(u)wd wordt met benevelende bassen, rockende riffs met een sludgerige klank en een haast rituele zang.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Prima album van een stonerband die onderhoudende nummers maakt, nummers die zorgen voor een geestverruimende sfeer. Rockend, met een stevige sound. Tip voor wie graag wazig wakker wordt na het beluisteren van een album.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bart Alfvoet&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;www.zwaremetalen.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-2439277827609495971?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/2439277827609495971/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-zwaremetalencom-netherlands.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2439277827609495971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2439277827609495971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-zwaremetalencom-netherlands.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ZWAREMETALEN.COM&apos; (Netherlands)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-svuOwsVx33A/Tbb04Deq44I/AAAAAAAAATE/NF-KMbRbZMg/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-7909651302222537919</id><published>2011-04-26T09:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T09:36:46.228-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rawandwild.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'RAWANDWILD.COM' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;7,5/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zc2o4xENHnM/Tbb0FFNC42I/AAAAAAAAAS8/sURiT5UkOys/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599931554815206242" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Avevo incrociato sulla mia strada gli Zippo in occasione del loro esordio discografico. Di acqua ne è passata sotto i ponti, e ora me li ritrovo maturi e diversi. Ammetto che non ho avuto modo di ascoltare e recensire il secondo lavoro del gruppo, The Road To Knowledge, uscito 2008 (sempre per la SubSound), ma la band che mi ritrovo oggi per “le orecchie” ha un sound meno stoner di quello che ne caratterizzava gli esordi. La copertina (grandioso l’artwork e il packing) in stile Tool (o toolleggiante, come direbbe una persona di mia conoscenza) doveva far trillare il famoso campanellino. Però, pur individuando delle influenze provenienti della band di Mr Maynard James Keenan, i nomi che mi vengono subito in mente sono Alice In Chains e Soundgarden (in ordine di apparizione). I primi per alcune soluzioni allucinate, i secondi per l’uso delle melodie vocali. Riascoltando il disco ecco apparire i già citati Tool e il vecchio stoner. Alla fine l’idea che mi son fatto è che il disco affondi le proprie radici negli anni 90 (credo che i membri della band siano cresciuti musicalmente in quel periodo) e ne rinnovi e rinfreschi i contenuti. Un ottimo lavoro da parte di una band che ha tutte le carte in regola per sfondare oltreconfine!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "&gt;&lt;b style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;G. F. Cassatella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; "&gt;www.rawandwild.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-7909651302222537919?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/7909651302222537919/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-rawandwildcom-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7909651302222537919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7909651302222537919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-rawandwildcom-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;RAWANDWILD.COM&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zc2o4xENHnM/Tbb0FFNC42I/AAAAAAAAAS8/sURiT5UkOys/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-4985320063860889775</id><published>2011-04-26T09:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T09:53:15.896-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alone Music'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ALONEMUSIC.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_8-PBGz3d4c/TbbzEDC_0PI/AAAAAAAAAS0/vHqMBjAaO2Y/s320/200x180.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 180px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599930437544694002" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-size: medium; "&gt;E’ stato amore a prima vista. O dovrei dire alla prima nota. L’album degli &lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Zippo&lt;/strong&gt; “&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Maktub&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;” non è solo un vero e proprio capolavoro musicale ma un’esplosione di visioni stupende anche nell’artwork di copertina e nello stesso booklet che trovo all’interno, curato nei minimi dettagli. L’impatto è corposo, granitico e ascoltando già le prime note di “&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;The Personal Legend&lt;/em&gt;” il muro del suono è inattaccabile visto che la miscela di generi come stoner ed alternative la fanno da padroni. Con “&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;The Omens&lt;/em&gt;” torniamo su un terreno di sperimentazioni con chitarre che macinano grandemente note raffinate ma sempre dure e dirette, che arrivano al cuore come una pallottola. A tutto questo si deve aggiungere la meravigliosa voce di Dave: eclettica, un dolce amaro, un salto nel vuoto ad occhi chiusi. Niente di più niente di meno.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; "&gt;E arriva quella che ho ribattezzato la “reginetta” della tracklist, cioè &lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;“Caravan to Your Destiny&lt;/em&gt;”, dalla visione intimista che inquadra benissimo il senso di scappare in libertà lontano quando cita la frase “&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Open your eyes/As the landescape keeps running ahead/ How many miles/Till our horses will lead usa way?&lt;/em&gt;”.  “&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;Man of Theory&lt;/em&gt;” non può non ricordarmi i Tool che della loro sperimentazione ne hanno fatto sempre un cavallo di battaglia vincente, guarda ultimo album “10,000 days” oltre all’altro gruppo Keenan dei A Perfect Circle. Anyway, tornando ai nostri Zippo, degli ultimi tre pezzi che chiudono la scaletta apprezzo particolarmente “&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;The Treasure” &lt;/em&gt;che si insinua timidamente crescendo a mano a mano grazie alle chitarre che ci tengono con il fiato sospeso fino alla fine, un vero e proprio piccolo tesoro che gli Zippo si lasciano per ultimo giusto per chiudere in bellezza questo gioiello di album.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; "&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; font-size: medium; "&gt;Ottima preparazione tecnica di tutti i componenti che sanno darsi spago a vicenda. 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INTERVIEW ON &apos;METAL MANIAC&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KfvGINcNcT0/TaGuzBEdMiI/AAAAAAAAASU/A8z8rBORZDQ/s72-c/Metal%2BManiac%2BCover%2BAprile2011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-8909957481674698183</id><published>2011-04-09T06:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T07:00:41.413-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rock Hard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ROCK HARD' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nTl1DrC9fek/TaBjkB75nYI/AAAAAAAAASM/qBt7rlOrKf8/s320/cop2m.jpg" style="float:left; 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(Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nTl1DrC9fek/TaBjkB75nYI/AAAAAAAAASM/qBt7rlOrKf8/s72-c/cop2m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-3944429513710529065</id><published>2011-04-07T07:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T08:10:25.792-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Heavyworlds.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'HEAVYWORLDS.COM' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;8,5/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ld2oSAI1ZM8/TZ3RlRsyVyI/AAAAAAAAAR0/GNFw6jGYyi0/s400/200x180.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 180px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592856750600640290" /&gt;Avete idea di cosa vi porti a provare gli stati d’angoscia? Non sto parlando di mera paura, ma di angoscia, ovvero quando qualcosa di preoccupante (ma non letale) ti penetra dentro e destabilizza gli equilibri così precariamente edificati…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; "&gt;Se volete provare angoscia, allora vi consiglio di avvicinarvi al terzo genito degli abbruzzesi Zippo…e avrete pane per i vostri denti. Il quintetto di Pescara, anche in questa nuova uscita, non lesina bastonate sui denti e atmosfere ai limiti della sanità mentale, fornendo un percorso musicale tutt’altro che classificabile e definibile a parole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; "&gt;Tecnicamente è un album perfetto…i suoni sono mastodontici, a volte compressi e altre volte corposi, la produzione è fumosa e scarna (mr. Victor Love ha dato una mano notevole alla plasmatura di “Maktub”), le performance sono degne del successo che la band sta avendo (e ahimè, come sempre,per di più fuori dal nostro paese) e il mastering (James Plotkin) da un impatto sorprendente ai sette capitoli in questione. Aggiungete al piatto un songwriting che si muove su un costante progeggiare di batteria e basso contornato da un lavoro di chitarre che si addentra nel metal psichedelico, dove le vocals di Dave passano da pulito a urlato in uno stadio di crescente confusione…senza contare che “Maktub” gode anche delle ospitate di Luca T. Mai (Zu) al sax baritono e di Ben Ward (Orange Goblin) al microfono in “Man Of Theory”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; "&gt;Le songs??? Mmmh…mi mettete clamorosamente in difficoltà. Posso solo assicurarvi che il disco non cede un attimo; si muove su dinamismi continui ponendo volutamente gli episodi più complessi (“We, People’s Hearts” e “Sinum”) verso la parte finale, in modo da ‘preparare’ l’ascoltatore alle esperienze più difficili (e più significative).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; "&gt;“Maktub” è un capolavoro…è il capolavoro degli Zippo! E la tournee europea seguita alla pubblicazione (avvenuta in marzo 2011) ne è il degno responso. Band come queste dimostrano che gli act nostrani sanno imparare la lezione, farla propria, ed essere a loro volta dei validi maestri internazionali. Standing ovation!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Valerio Ferrari&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.heavyworlds.com/"&gt;www.heavyworlds.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-3944429513710529065?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/3944429513710529065/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-heavyworldscom-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3944429513710529065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3944429513710529065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-heavyworldscom-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;HEAVYWORLDS.COM&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ld2oSAI1ZM8/TZ3RlRsyVyI/AAAAAAAAAR0/GNFw6jGYyi0/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-4235278724480522580</id><published>2011-04-07T07:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T08:11:16.271-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Audiodrome.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maktub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW &amp; INTERVIEW ON 'AUDIODROME.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - Maktub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;3/5&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ascolta il tuo cuore. Esso conosce tutte le cose.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pSgeuNZdRoo/TZ3UDKlJk-I/AAAAAAAAAR8/9n5hzPs4w58/s400/200x180.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 180px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592859463108891618" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Due dischi e una quantità inumana di live in giro per mezza Europa... l'attesa per “Maktub” è finita. &lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="display: inline !important; "&gt;Dopo Road To Knowledge, tante promesse e speranze, arriva il terzo capitolo della eclettica “ex” stoner band abruzzese. Qualcosa è cambiato, a partire dalla line-up e proseguendo con l'attitudine e parte del caratteristico sound. Altro è rimasto, si veda il gusto per gli intrichi compositivi e per l'ispirazione letteraria. Dimenticare i vecchi Zippo, questo è l'imperativo, o meglio far tesoro del passato, riempir d'inchiostro il calamaio e voltar pagina. Il full-length nasce dalla fascinazione per “L'Alchimista” di Paulo Coelho, da cui asporta le linee guida, e da un'enorme esigenza espressiva che si comprime in meno di quaranta minuti, riempiendoli di musica fino al midollo. Di certo non possiamo parlare di stoner, di certo non possiamo parlare di semplicità e immediatezza. I sette brani della tracklist si avvicendano in un ondeggiante andirivieni di tempi frammentari, chiasmi melodici, riff taglienti e sinuosi arpeggi. Le influenze sono molteplici e tutte legate ad un'unica fune da quell'appiglio universale comunemente denominato progressive. Dall'iniziale pressione di “The Personal Legend”, tanto intensa da rasentare l'hardcore, al prolungato finale di “The Treasure” (in cui il quintetto pare quasi provar dispiacere nel concludere l'opera) gli input spediti al cervello dell'ascoltatore sono innumerevoli: Meshuggah, King Crimson, Mastodon (su tutti), Opeth, Tool... il fior fiore del rock progressivo dalle piramidi a oggi, illustrato da una mano a tratti sbilenca a tratti inebriata da se stessa. Ridurre però il plot ad accademico esercizio stilistico è limitativo, nel sottobosco infatti si annidano ben celate centinaia di minuscole suggestioni musicali: la voce di Dave sembra in più punti invocare David Eugene Edwards (Woven Hand, 16Horsepower), arabeggianti dinamiche strisciano al suolo alzando tanta polvere da irritare gli occhi ad Al Cisneros (OM, Sleep), scomposte strutture rock sottolineano insani innamoramenti per il noiserock di fine anni Novanta. La maturità musicale dei nostri si rivela inoltre nella loro capillare cura del suono e in una produzione di livello internazionale, dove la sapiente mano di James Plotkin (mastering) concretizza il piccolo capolavoro di “confezionamento” e la presenza di ospiti illustri come Ben Ward (Orange Goblin) e Luca T. Mai (Zu) ribadisce il già citato concetto d'internazionalismo. Molto bello anche l'artwork (il classico fiore all'occhiello del marchio Zippo). Nei del disco l'eccessivo barocchismo di alcuni momenti, che ne rallenta la fruizione, ed un paio di pezzi meno a fuoco degli altri. Viaggio e sogno, non ha importanza che siano sulle mani di chi compone o nella mente di chi si lascia cadere nell'album, quello che conta è chiudere gli occhi e precipitare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Maktub è speranza, promessa, impegno.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A cura di: Marco Marzuoli [info@audiodrome.it]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;---&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;INTERVIEW&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Maktub è il titolo scelto dagli Zippo per il nuovo album, ancora una volta su Subsound Records e nuovamente ispirato dall'opera di uno scrittore (dopo Castaneda, scelto per il precedente The Road To Knowledge, tocca ora a Coelho), un legame che i musicisti tengono a vedere come il portato di un'affinità elettiva che si incanala e trova naturale sbocco nella musica della band. Sotto il profilo strettamente musicale, il lavoro prosegue nell'evoluzione dello stile, ricco di influssi stoner e psichedelici, che ha da sempre contraddistinto gli Zippo e che oggi incorpora anche nuovi ingredienti, così da fornire lo spunto ideale per una chiacchierata con Alessandro Sergente, chitarrista della formazione abruzzese.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cosa è successo dopo la pubblicazione di The Road To Knowledge? Come sono state le reazioni all'album e come sono cambiate (se lo sono) le cose all'interno del gruppo?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alessandro Sergente: Sicuramente, grazie alla promozione della Subsound Records, il nome Zippo è arrivato sulla bocca di molte persone, oltre che su portali, fanzine eccetera. Le recensioni sono state piuttosto soddisfacenti. Riguardo ai live, abbiamo allargato i nostri orizzonti fino a paesi come Inghilterra e Olanda, dove non avevamo ancora avuto modo di esibirci.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;All'interno della band le cose sono ovviamente cambiate: la nostra idea Zippo si è evoluta musicalmente, visto anche l'ingresso di un nuovo chitarrista, Francesco Porrini, che ha partecipato attivamente nella composizione del nuovo lavoro. Diciamo che siamo soddisfatti anche se, come diciamo in Abruzzo, le chiacchiere se le porta il vento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Maktub è un termine arabo di origine alchemica sul cui significato esistono varie interpretazioni. Cosa vi ha spinto a scegliere proprio questo termine per il titolo del nuovo lavoro? Dopo Castaneda, sembra sia ora la volta di Coelho, visto che Maktub è anche il titolo di un suo libro. Vi va di spiegare ai nostri lettori questo speciale legame tra la vostra musica e la letteratura? In che modo i due universi si influenzano e si intersecano?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Vorremo premettere che Maktub non è propriamente un libro, ma una raccolta di leggende mirate ad approfondire proprio il significato del suo stesso titolo, che come hai giustamente detto ha varie interpretazioni: di solito viene tradotto con l'espressione "così è scritto" (per chi fosse interessato il testo è scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito di Coelho). Il nostro disco non è ispirato a questo testo, bensì a uno dei suoi più famosi romanzi, "L'Alchimista". La scelta di fondere musica e letteratura, poi, forse non si può definire tale: crediamo si sia trattato di una naturale conseguenza della nostra necessità di esternare e condividere la nostra visione dell'uomo e del mondo, la quale è inevitabilmente anche il frutto del comune interesse per dei generi letterari i cui linguaggi amiamo poi utilizzare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Musicalmente, il vostro suono si è arricchito di nuove sfaccettature, spesso estremizzandosi pur nel mantenere un forte legame con il vostro linguaggio personale. Com'è avvenuto questo mutamento e come credete reagiranno i vostri fan?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Non crediamo che il suono si sia arricchito rispetto all'album precedente; la nostra intenzione era quella di ottenere un maggiore impatto creando una sonorità più simile possibile a quella dei nostri live: questo è il motivo per cui i fan non potranno fare altro che apprezzarlo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;La scelta di importare gli elementi esterni di cui si diceva prima deve, secondo voi, essere vista come il primo passo verso un radicale cambio di direzione o resterete comunque legati all'originale amore per le sonorità psichedeliche e stoner?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Le sonorità psichedeliche e stoner hanno sempre fatto parte del nostro stile, si tratta di influenze da cui non potremo mai prescindere. Certo è che la nostra attuale concezione della musica è diversa da quando abbiamo cominciato, ma non si tratta di un'evoluzione dettata dalla volontà di stravolgere un genere: noi seguiamo il nostro istinto, e niente potrebbe impedire che il nostro prossimo album sia, perché no, magari un ritorno ad uno stoner più classico. In ogni caso pensiamo a vivere il presente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nel nuovo lavoro avete collaborato con Ben Ward (Orange Goblin) e Luca T. Mai (Zu, Mombu), come sono nate queste collaborazioni e cosa vi hanno lasciato in dote?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Con Ben e Luca abbiamo condiviso il palco in varie occasioni, e questo ci ha permesso di approfondirne la conoscenza, tant'è che ormai li consideriamo degli amici, oltre a stimarli profondamente come artisti: il loro contributo al nostro lavoro ci ha resi molto orgogliosi, e si è rivelato doppiamente apprezzabile sia per l'esempio di umiltà che hanno dato collaborando con noi, sia per il sostegno che fornisce alla nostra comune scena musicale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cosa mi raccontate delle grafiche dell'album? Come sono nate e chi le ha realizzate?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Abbiamo deciso di basare lo stile grafico dell'ultimo album sul "cerchio".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Le illustrazioni esterne, l'impaginazione, le grafiche (oltre che il poster) sono opera di Stonino, mentre le illustrazioni interne sono opera mia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Come procedono le cose dal punto di vista dei concerti? Ormai siete una formazione rodata sul piano live e presto partirete per un nuovo tour europeo, quindi mi piacerebbe sapere la vostra opinione sul differente approccio organizzativo e di pubblico tra il nostro Paese e l'Europa.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Negli ultimi quattro anni sono tanti i Paesi e le realtà in cui abbiamo avuto modo di esibirci e, nel nostro piccolo, ce ne siamo fatti un'idea: purtroppo abbiamo constatato sia in Italia che in Europa la presenza di promoter incapaci, per colpa dei quali spesso il concerto si trasforma da momento dedicato all'arte e alla cultura ad un pretesto per gozzovigliare. Sarà poi perché viviamo a più stretto contatto con la realtà italiana, ma a volte sembra che il nostro Paese sia molto ricco di persone brave più a parlare che ad agire. Per fortuna la scena underground può vantare anche la presenza di ragazzi che mettono l'anima nell'organizzazione di eventi chiave per arricchire la qualità della nostra scena.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Con quali gruppi vi siete trovati più in sintonia e con quali vi piacerebbe tornare a dividere il palco? Ritenete vi siano dei gruppi assimilabili agli Zippo per approccio o stile?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sono due in particolare i gruppi con cui ci è piaciuto lavorare: The Orange Man Theory, che hanno condiviso con noi l'esperienza di due tour, ed i Last Minute To Jaffna, il primo gruppo con cui abbiamo fatto scambio date. Siamo legati a tutti loro da un forte legame di amicizia ed è evidente che ci piacerebbe ripetere le esperienze passate. Inoltre ci riteniamo uniti, se non dal genere, dall'approccio originale verso la musica che suoniamo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Più in generale, come vi rapportate con la scena italiana? Esiste secondo voi una reale collaborazione tra band e label, o prevalgono al solito l'egoismo e l'invidia?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Egoismi ed invidie non mancano mai, ma noi pensiamo di averne individuato ed isolato le varie fonti, ed ora ci circondiamo di persone fidate con cui abbiamo una leale e reale collaborazione.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cosa vi aspettate dal nuovo lavoro e in generale dal 2011? Quali i vostri obbiettivi e le vostre ambizioni?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Suonare, suonare, suonare e fare concerti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Last famous words...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Random.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A cura di: Michele Giorgi [michele.giorgi@audiodrome.it]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A cura di: Marco Marzuoli [info@audiodrome.it]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; 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INTERVIEW ON &apos;AUDIODROME.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pSgeuNZdRoo/TZ3UDKlJk-I/AAAAAAAAAR8/9n5hzPs4w58/s72-c/200x180.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-5289255430565345603</id><published>2011-04-07T07:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T07:27:52.981-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Interview'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barone Del Male'/><title type='text'>INTERVIEW ON 'BARONE DEL MALE' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="line-height: 30px; " &gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Il &lt;i&gt;Barone del Male incontra per caso Alessandro Sergente, chitarrista degli abruzzesi Zippo, al cesso delle donne di un noto ristorante cinese della riviera pescarese e si perde in chiacchiere...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Barone Del Male: Che rapporto hai con le emorroidi?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Alessandro Sergente: Un rapporto legato al peperoncino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Ne hai mai sofferto con continuità o hai avuto solo rapporti occasionali con questa malattia?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: La continuità è strettamente legata alla raccolta ed alla passione per i peperoncini che si traduce in amore per le emorroidi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Pensi che la passione per i peperoncini influisca sulla tua musica?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Più che i peperoncini sono le emorroidi che incidono pesantemente... è proprio in quei giorni di ano infiammato che tiro fuori il meglio di me!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Quindi è per questo che il suono della tua chitarra è così sofferentemente di merda?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Esatto! In certi giorni vorrei che la mia cassa si trasformasse in un culo gigante, che invece di mandare suono, spargesse un bella dose di sangue e merda!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Sei coprofago?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Non sono coprofago per gli stessi motivi per cui non sono un killer, pero' stimo tantissimo Gianni Morandi!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BDM: Chi ti conosce sa del tuo grande amore per lo sperma, lo trovi una fonte di ispirazione?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Piu' che fonte di ispirazione diciamo che è ottimo per i cantanti: schiarisce la voce e la ammorbidisce.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Il tuo cantante ne fa uso?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Dietro le quinte dicono di si, ma non ci sono prove fisiche, poi comunque lo sanno tutti che i cantanti bevono la sborra!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Credi che sia possibile sostituire il termine peyote con la parola sperma nelle liriche di Road To Knowledge?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Beh, sarebbe riduttivo, cioè, si sentirebbe troppo poco nel contesto generale, bisognerebbe sostituirlo a qualche altra parola, tipo... non so... ad un articolo per esempio!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Pensi che voi Zippo abbiate migliorato il vostro rapporto con l'altro sesso da quando siete andati in tour nell'europa dell'est?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Allora... la maggior parte di noi ha migliorato i rapporti, oramai decennali, con "Maria" (?), altri con "Federica" (??)... diciamo che la statistica dice questo: "Io sono la groupie di me stesso!". La solitudine porta consiglio a chi è coraggioso!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Quindi le pippe sono parte integrante del progetto Zippo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Questo discorso lo abbiamo intrapreso piu' volte, ho fatto indagini ed ho scoperto che tutti abbiamo provato a menacerlo in tour, ma alla fine quasi nessuno è riuscito a cacciare il brodo dell'amore. Pero' spesso accade di svegliarsi bagnato nel cuore della notte!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Quindi ve lo buttate al culo fra i sacchi a pelo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Ho sentito gente giustificarsi cosi: "Eh... sono abituato a dormire con la mia ragazza, mi viene naturale scusami..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Ok, siamo quasi alla fine... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;carne o pesce?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Sono vegano! &lt;i&gt;(brandendo con fierezza un pezzo di lardo di colonnata)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Santana o Ghigo Renzulli?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Sempre Gianni Morandi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;BDM: Saluta il baronato come vuoi...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;AS: Pervertiti!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://baronedelmale.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;baronedelmale.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-5289255430565345603?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/5289255430565345603/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/interview-on-barone-del-male-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5289255430565345603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/5289255430565345603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/interview-on-barone-del-male-italy.html' title='INTERVIEW ON &apos;BARONE DEL MALE&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-6805883023210772129</id><published>2011-04-07T06:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T06:57:38.907-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Resurrection-Dead.de'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'RESURRECTION-DEAD.DE' (Germany)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b style="font-size: large; "&gt;ZIPPO - The Road To Knowledge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;7/10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5l3dJC05bTw/TZ2-y5FRlSI/AAAAAAAAARU/-KAVTz9vd_c/s400/200per200.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592836093789705506" style="text-align: justify; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;Vor einigen Monaten im ST-Club: Zwei unbekannte Bands aus Italien, die dem Geruch nach zu urteilen die letzten Wochen gemeinsam im Tourbus aufeinander lagen, sollen auftreten. Kaum Gäste da, keine Promotion und ob Stoner Rock und Grindcore (The orange man theory) aus Italien als Gästemagnet taugen, lässt sich gut bestreiten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nachdem wir nun mit das erste mal ordentlichen Sound hinzimmerten und die ob der spärlichen Besucheranzahl verdutzten Bands antraten, erwischte es mich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Band numero uno war besagte StonerRockBand mit Namen Zippo. Ein charismatischer Sänger mit einer geschätzten Körperhöhe von 3 Metern und einer Bartlänge von mindestens dem doppelten und seine Mannen betraten die eher kleine ST-Bühne und entfachten einen psychedelischen Traum aus Musik und visueller Präsenz. (Zumal der Drummer ORIGINAL aussah wie Super Mario!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nach dem Gig war ich natürlich sofort dabei mir deren Alben zu besorgen, die sie netterweise mitgebracht haben. Für den schlanken Preis von 15 Euro erhielt ich nun also das billig dreinblickende Demo-Album mit etwas verkorkstem Sound und dem erwartungsschwangeren Beigeschmack, dass das neuere Album im edlen Jewel Case mit beigelegtem Booklet nur noch etwas geiler sein kann. Selbst die Demo überzeugte mich also schon von den Qualitäten dieser etwas bekifft dreinblickenden Combo. So sollte es dann auch sein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich schlug das Booklet auf und freute mich erstmal über die Songtexte. Im schlichten beige-gilblich-gelben Used-look kam es doch recht professionell rüber. Das kann man dann auch über den Sound und die Aufmachung des Albums an sich sagen. Habe ich so nicht erwartet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nach dem spanisch eingesprochenem Intro geht es sofort in die Vollen. Mit Song 2 "El Sitio" zieht die Band sofort alle Register. Sie schaffen es, so ziemlich alles, was diese Band ausmacht, in einen Song zu packen oder zumindest grob anzureißen, um noch sabbernder die nächsten Tracks hören zu wollen. Das 13 Songs umfassende Album offenbart dem Hörer nun die unheimlichen Klangwelten des StonerRocks. Da gibt es Banjos, Pianos, Hammondorgeln und eine coole Minitröte auf deren Namen ich gerade nicht komme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das gesamte Album ist stark an "The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge" von Carlos Castaneda angelegt, was sich in den zuweil verträumten Passagen bemerkbar macht. Ständig wartet man in einigen Songs auf den unweigerlich Sound-Hammer, der ja bei herkömmlichen Produktionen stets den ruhigeren Parts folgt. Zippo machen das etwas anders. Sie werden noch chilliger und geben sich komplett ihren eigenen Vibes hin um dann doch noch, irgendwann, komplett zu explodieren und in hypnotischen Gitarrensalven und Bassteppichen aufzugehen. Dave, der Sänger, entfaltet daraufhin sein beeindruckendes Stimmspektrum, das von emotionalem Sprachgesang über getragene Melodien bis hin zu manischen Schreien reicht. Dabei verliert er nie die eher tiefe Klangfarbe und die Charismatik der Stimme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeden einzelnen Song zu beschreiben wäre der blanke Hohn bei einer durchschnittlichen Songspielzeit von guten fünf Minuten und ohne bemerkbare Pausen zwischen den Songs. Daher gebe ich hier noch ein paar unbedingte Anspieltips zum Besten: "El Sitio" , "The Road to Knowledge" sowie "Chihuahua Valley" gehören mit Sicherheit zu den StonerRocksongs, die sich auch vor Kyuss und Fu Manchu nicht verstecken müssen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aber nunja, was soll man sagen. In Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass ich letztens nach mehr Objektivität in Rezensionen schrie, nahm ich mir vor dieses Feuerwerk doch auch etwas negativ zu belasten.&lt;br /&gt;Man kennt es ja von anderen StonerPlatten. Wenn man sich ein Album komplett gibt und sich darauf einlässt, kann man spüren wie langsam das Hirn schmilzt und eine etwas seltsame Symbiose mit dem Liquor eingeht. Man verliert dabei zunehmend die Lust, sich das Album komplett anzuhören, bewusst. Dann reicht es vielleicht noch zum Partysoundtrack, der im Hintergrund dümpelt.&lt;br /&gt;Gibt man der Scheibe etwas Zeit, entdeckt man bei mehreren Hördurchläufen immer wieder neue Akkustikspielereien und kleine Highlights. Allerdings kommen einem die leiser-lauter-Spielchen nach einer Zeit nicht mehr so überraschend vor wie zu Beginn und die eigentlich bombastische CD verliert sich gegen Ende etwas im Mittelmaß. Schade, aber Don Juan lehrte wohl auch etwas Ruhe. Demzufolge verleihe ich 7 Punkte mit ziemlich viel Plus im Anhang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abschließend: Jeder mit einem Hang zu StonerRock sollte sich diesen Italienexport nicht entgehen lassen. Also wirklich nicht.&lt;br /&gt;Interessierte oder potenzielle Neuanhänger dieser Musik dürfen selbstverständlich auch gerne mal auf den Bandlink klicken und sich begeistern lassen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;www.resurrection-dead.de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-6805883023210772129?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/6805883023210772129/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-resurrection-deadde-germany.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6805883023210772129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6805883023210772129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-resurrection-deadde-germany.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;RESURRECTION-DEAD.DE&apos; (Germany)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5l3dJC05bTw/TZ2-y5FRlSI/AAAAAAAAARU/-KAVTz9vd_c/s72-c/200per200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-201097659342159712</id><published>2011-04-07T06:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T06:46:21.833-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adequacy.net'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uk'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'ADEQUACY.NET' (UK)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - The Road To Knowledge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5l3dJC05bTw/TZ2-y5FRlSI/AAAAAAAAARU/-KAVTz9vd_c/s400/200per200.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592836093789705506" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;The quality of an album depends just as much on the production as it does on the writing and performance. I have often encountered records with some interesting ideas that are ultimately ruined by poor sound, and I wish that the creators could go back and remix it, making it more polished and involving.&lt;em&gt;The Road to Knowledge&lt;/em&gt;, the sophomore album by Zippo, is such a case. Also, it simply becomes redundant after a few tracks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "&gt;Zippo formed in Italy in 2004 with an aim to play “…a thousand-faces-stoner-rock, from massive and pachyderm sounds to moments of quietness and peace.” After &lt;em&gt;Ode to Maximum&lt;/em&gt; was released in 2006, the band’s sound started turning darker, heavier, more psychedelic and deeper in complexity. They discovered Carlos Castaneda’s famous book &lt;em&gt;The Teachings of Don Juan&lt;/em&gt;, and it inspired them to craft this conceptual album about addiction and self-will. There is certainly a mood of meditative self-reflection and growth, but there is also a lot of muddled sound, lacking any spark.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "&gt;Appropriately, &lt;em&gt;The Road to Knowledge&lt;/em&gt; opens with “Don Juan’s Words”. It features a spoken passage (in Italian, of course) over backward sound loops. It’s mysterious and intriguing. Soon festive drums and dancing bass introduce “El Sitio”, which also presents tight guitar work and interesting rhythmical shifts. The intensity and timbre of the vocals reminds one (if only slightly) of System of a Down. The singer also screams a decent amount, which makes him sound like he’s vomiting. Intangibly, it sounds like we’re hearing the music under water, as it’s clumped together and not at all vibrant. This remains true for the entire album.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "&gt;The title track is more dynamic and acoustic, and it uses a wider array of instruments, making it a bit more engaging. At the same time, it has the aesthetic of a garage band (albeit a&lt;em&gt; really&lt;/em&gt; good and rehearsed one). I know I sound like I’m probably contradicting myself, but again, this is what happens when the production doesn’t do justice to the promising material. “He is Outside Us” is a pretty acoustic piece that’s not too evolved but pleasant enough. A bit later, “Lizards Can’t Be Wrong” provides a tranquil intermission in the form of humming with lightly decorated accompaniment. It’s as if we’re sitting around a fire on holy land.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "&gt;A lot of&lt;em&gt; The Road to Knowledge&lt;/em&gt; sounds the same; it’s a big crash of drums, guitar and aggressive vocals. I know that that set up is the basis of rock music, but it doesn’t have to all sound &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; interchangeable (enough so that I feel an insufficient ability and need to discuss each track separately because they aren’t unique enough). The biggest “miss” is how they venture into poorly executed metal with the latter part of the album, starting with “El Enyerbado”. The singer can try his best to growl like James Hetfield and borrow the low register of the late Peter Steele, but it just sounds bad here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "&gt;“Reality Is What I Feel” has a very involving and impressive guitar passage; sounds eerily similar to In Flames’ beautiful “Acoustic Medley”. Still, it’s a nice change of pace, and definitely a highlight of the album. Similarly, Zippo seem to pay homage to brilliance of Sweden’s Opeth with the closing track, “Diablera”. It features the moving chord progressions, countermelody bass lines, and chanting of the [supposed] inspiration. I cite these comparisons not to accuse Zippo of plagiarism but to reference two standout tracks that fans of the complementing bands would appreciate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Road to Knowledge &lt;/em&gt;is a tragic album in a way. On one hand, it has some great ideas and interesting choices, as well as some great guitar pieces. But, it also lacks any real diversity outside of those moments, and the entire album could do with better production to make it sound more exhilarating and colorful (instead of dull and condensed, like it is now). Zippo certainly have something to offer listeners, but they haven’t quite figured out how to record their specialties well enough yet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jordan Blum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.adequacy.net/"&gt;www.adequacy.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-201097659342159712?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/201097659342159712/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-adequacynet-uk.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/201097659342159712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/201097659342159712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-on-adequacynet-uk.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;ADEQUACY.NET&apos; (UK)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5l3dJC05bTw/TZ2-y5FRlSI/AAAAAAAAARU/-KAVTz9vd_c/s72-c/200per200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-2490075283232798736</id><published>2010-09-05T16:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-05T17:10:54.663-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Metal Hammer Uk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Live Report'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Live'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uk'/><title type='text'>LIVE REPORT ON 'METAL HAMMER' (UK)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/maiden3Dcover.gif" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;METAL HAMMER UK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Issue July 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://i55.tinypic.com/j79ora.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-2490075283232798736?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/2490075283232798736/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/09/live-report-on-metal-hammer-uk.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2490075283232798736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/2490075283232798736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/09/live-report-on-metal-hammer-uk.html' title='LIVE REPORT ON &apos;METAL HAMMER&apos; (UK)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://i55.tinypic.com/j79ora_th.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-3060599294793661872</id><published>2010-07-18T09:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T09:23:44.244-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Come my fanatics'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'COME MY FANATICS 'ZINE' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - The Road To Knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;9,5/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMqFreJdzI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/D30l2b2iYfY/s200/200per200.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495282247379023666" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Road to Knowledge, più che un semplice disco, è un viaggio. A partire dalla tematica trattata, un concept su “Gli insegnamenti di Don Juan” di Castaneda, il racconto di un viaggio spirituale attraverso l'uso di sostanze allucinogene, un modo di trattare temi fortemente vicini alla “tradizione” stoner rock, ma con tanta classe. Dall'altro lato, anche la musica in sé è uno dei momenti più coinvolgenti degli ultimi anni, uno spaziare fra tantissime influenze diverse provenienti da varie culture musicali. Gli Zippo sono infatti un connubio unico e incredibilmente riuscito fra lo stoner rock dei classici, come Kyuss, Nebula etc, una abilità compositiva debitrice del progressive rock, un'attitudine alla psichedelia senza pari, un arrangiamento dei pezzi perfetto, raffinato e minuziosissimo, un uso alieno delle armonie, fra dissonanze mai troppo aggressive e melodie da un lato catchy, ma senza mai risultare banali. Un'eleganza che difficilmente trova pari in questi contesti, un'originalità che li astrae da qualsiasi classificazione, un disco perfetto che potrebbe durare 3 o 4 ore senza mai stancare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Episodio per episodio, il complesso si mostra preparatissimo sia tecnicamente che a livello di songwriting, Dave alla voce con una prestazione superlativa quando canta pulito, non perfetto nelle parti più sporche (ad esempio nei primi secondi di El Enyerbado), si fa perdonare con bellissime lyrics e una voce fantastica in altri contesti; il lavoro della sezione ritmica è eccellente, in particolar modo dietro le pelli di Ferico, molto vario e preciso, coinvolgente al massimo; infine grande nota di merito per il lavoro alle chitarre, forse quelle che danno un tocco in più ai pezzi, donano particolari che scopri ascoltando e riascoltando le canzoni, rendendole oltremodo longeve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Inutile parlare dei singoli brani, questo album rasenta la perfezione nella sua interezza, e nella sua interezza mantiene il suo valore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Diego Chuhan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://comemyfanatics.altervista.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-3060599294793661872?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/3060599294793661872/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-come-my-fanatics-zine-italy.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3060599294793661872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3060599294793661872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-come-my-fanatics-zine-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;COME MY FANATICS &apos;ZINE&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMqFreJdzI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/D30l2b2iYfY/s72-c/200per200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-7726011032191354172</id><published>2010-07-18T08:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T09:05:28.991-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stereoinvaders.com'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'STEREOINVADERS.COM' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ZIPPO - The Road To Knowledge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="  border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="  border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;8/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="  border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMkgk3SNsI/AAAAAAAAAQI/Rd9Glpniy4Q/s200/200per200.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495276112392107714" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; "&gt;Formatisi nel 2004, gli Zippo si propongono al grande pubblico, forti di un sound robusto ed allo stesso tempo sognante. La lingua che si parla è quella del Rock, e in special modo il verbo dello stoner. Fuoco che arde, accendino (non a caso il nome richiama la famosa marca?) che fa partire innesco verso legna asciutta, in un bollente deserto. Calore, nel caldo più torrido, rosso che ci incendia fino a diventarne parte del nostro ego. Affascinanti le divagazioni Psychedelic che tra aride terre, si presentano come miraggi lontani che riempiono il cuore di ardore. La fiamma così brilla, e con le sue emanazioni riga il panorama, prospettiva caleidoscopica di un qualcosa che ruota su se stesso evolvendo. Le illusioni incenerite, riprendo vita, variopinte e cariche di una nuova linfa, sembravano perse nell’aria, ma diventano nuova speranza. Fantasie che non si consumano, divenendo valore aggiunto contro le quotidiane sofferenze. Gli istanti più acustici sono dialogo interiore, mentre le accelerazioni si trasformano in monito per una fervente reazione. Conturbante anche il lavoro del basso, così raffinato nei suoi crescendo e costantemente protagonista tra due chitarre fiammeggianti. Full-lenght consapevole e maturo, che ci fa apprezzare una band di assoluto valore e dalle qualità indiscutibili.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="  border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="  border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thiess&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="  border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;www.stereoinvaders.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-7726011032191354172?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/7726011032191354172/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-stereoinvaderscom-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7726011032191354172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/7726011032191354172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-stereoinvaderscom-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;STEREOINVADERS.COM&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMkgk3SNsI/AAAAAAAAAQI/Rd9Glpniy4Q/s72-c/200per200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-3421544987744102465</id><published>2010-07-18T08:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T08:52:52.652-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nerdsattack.net'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'NERDSATTACK.NET' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - The Road To Knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;5/5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMiojTHIeI/AAAAAAAAAQA/lC93Bt-96zg/s200/200per200.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495274050387648994" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: -webkit-xxx-large; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Disco monumentale. Punto. I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Zippo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; arrivano con questo nuovo lavoro al loro piccolo (o grande?) capolavoro. In Italia, lo sanno pure i sassi, c’è una scena stoner/heavy psych impressionante e gli &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;Zippo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt; ne sono uno dei gruppi di punta. I pescaresi con questa opera fanno piazza pulita di tutto. Disco che non è neanche così diretto come possiate immaginare, non è un treno in corsa dall’inizio alla fine, ma ci sono molte parti più progressive, rallentate, psichedelia acutica (‘The Smoke Of Diviners’ e non solo) ma il tutto è incastronato in una cornice heavy. I suoni sono spaziali e quando accellerano (’El ‘Enyerbado’, ‘El Sitio’) si sente tutta la loro violenza.  Un disco magmatico, sofferente, lucido per 59 minuti di perfezione. Poche parole, pochi cazzi, questo è un lavoro che non può e non deve passare inosservato. Abbiate cura di ascoltarli in sede live ogni volta che potete e di chiedergli questo disco. 10€ per il vostro godimento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dante Natale&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;www.nerdsattack.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-3421544987744102465?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/3421544987744102465/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-nerdsattacknet-italy.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3421544987744102465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/3421544987744102465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-nerdsattacknet-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;NERDSATTACK.NET&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMiojTHIeI/AAAAAAAAAQA/lC93Bt-96zg/s72-c/200per200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-8672682100256946506</id><published>2010-07-18T08:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T08:48:24.177-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Theobelisk.net'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'THE OBELISK.NET' (Uk)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(176, 176, 176); line-height: 17px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 1.5em; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;ZIPPO - The Road To &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);  font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;Knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 1.5em; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMhSPK7nOI/AAAAAAAAAP4/SaaxHWfQPPo/s200/200per200.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495272567515880674" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(176, 176, 176); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;I’ve found the Italian psychedelic scene a curiosity for a while now, as it seems the lineage from early prog/acid acts like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Paul Chain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; has bred out in multiple directions to a vast array of styles, from the straightforward fuzz rock of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Black Rainbows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; to the megadoom of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Ufomammut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;. Brought to my attention by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Obelisk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;attendee and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Misfits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; überfan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Kieps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;, the band &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Zippo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; seem to incorporate all the elements their countrymen have each based a band on within a single sound.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;line-height: 1.5em; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The miracle in that is they come out of it with something cohesive. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Zippo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; formed in 2004 (practically forever ago by now), and have played with the lines of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Brant Bjork&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Stonebride&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Witchcraft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;, as well as having a slot at the 2009 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Stoned Hand of Doom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; fest in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Roma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; alongside such luminaries as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The Heads&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Obiat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Serpentcult&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;. Not too shabby by any measure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;line-height: 1.5em; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;But more important is the sound. While they began under the guise of stoner rock, the material on their &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Subsound Records&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; debut, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The Road to Knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; proves much more diverse, at least going by the tracks &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/zippomusic" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;on their &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;MySpace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;. They claim to have taken inspiration from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Carlos Castaneda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;‘s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The Teachings of Don Juan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;, and whatever birthed it, their heady, conscious rock is bound to pique the interest of any open-minded listener. And who knows, maybe a few of the other kind too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 1.5em; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style=" line-height: 18px;  font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;H.P. Taskmaster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style=" line-height: 18px;  font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;http://theobelisk.net&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-8672682100256946506?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/8672682100256946506/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-obelisknet-uk.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8672682100256946506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/8672682100256946506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-obelisknet-uk.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;THE OBELISK.NET&apos; (Uk)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMhSPK7nOI/AAAAAAAAAP4/SaaxHWfQPPo/s72-c/200per200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-6780715830104974729</id><published>2010-07-18T08:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T08:32:10.443-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Audiodrome.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'AUDIODROME.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;&lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;ZIPPO - The Road To Knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Verdana;font-size:10px;"&gt;&lt;div align="left" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;3/5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Liberamente ispirato agli Insegnamenti Di Don Juan di Carlos Castaneda, come precisano gli stessi musicisti nelle &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;note del cd, The Road To Knowledge è il secondo lavoro degli Zippo e il primo realizzato per la Subsound Recor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;ds (il debutto Ode To Maximum, del 2006, era infatti uscito come auto-produzione).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMeNM85BWI/AAAAAAAAAPw/8e7LbS6XJAo/s200/200per200.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495269182485890402" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Ambizioso e curato, l’album oltrepassa il concetto di stoner per imporsi grazie ad un linguaggio ricco di input differenti a cavallo tra rock e metal, senza tralasciare una malcelata contiguità con alcune realtà post-core più dilatate e psichedeliche. Lungo le tredici tracce, gli Zippo accompagnano l’ascoltatore in un complesso percorso iniziatico che, anche da un punto di vista prettamente musicale, richiama un immaginario fatto di sole e rocce, sabbia e riti sciamanici, il tutto grazie ad una proposta sonora che affianca con successo melodie latine e riff “stonati”, momenti in cui la musica diviene quasi impalpabile a impennate dalla chiara impronta “metallica”. Non è un caso se si è messo tra virgolette il termine “metallica”, in quanto proprio con l’omonima band gli Zippo dimostrano vari tratti in comune, perlomeno quando decidono di ingrossare il proprio sound e si avvicinano al versante mid-tempo del suono made in Bay Area. Ciò che maggiormente colpisce durante l’ascolto di The Road To Knowledge risiede, però, nei momenti più rilassati e al contempo ispirati, quando la personalità della formazione viene fuori con maggiore forza e si apprezza in pieno il fascino del concept. Nel suo insieme, il secondo lavoro dei pescaresi centra il bersaglio e supera la difficile prova del concept album a cavallo tra generi differenti: ancora qualche piccola rifinitura dei dettagli e la formazione potrà spiccare definitivamente il volo. Il voto in difetto è dovuto proprio alle potenzialità che The Road To Knowledge palesa, le stesse che lasciano presagire ulteriori evoluzioni nel futuro degli Zippo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size:10px;"&gt;&lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;table width="750" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td background="http://www.audiodrome.it/themes/default/images/sfondo_body.gif" align="center" valign="top"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="750"   style="  ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="490" align="left" valign="top"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele Giorgi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.audiodrome.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name="top_page_anchor"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;table width="750" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="text-align: justify;font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-6780715830104974729?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/6780715830104974729/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-audiodromeit-italy.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6780715830104974729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/6780715830104974729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-audiodromeit-italy.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;AUDIODROME.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMeNM85BWI/AAAAAAAAAPw/8e7LbS6XJAo/s72-c/200per200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-420655877538027404</id><published>2010-07-18T08:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T08:13:24.421-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Metalcry.com'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'METALCRY.COM' (Spain)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;ZIPPO - The Road To Knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;9/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMZxhdaX4I/AAAAAAAAAPg/U29poXIDSMM/s200/200per200.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495264308908154754" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Zippo son una banda originaria de Pescara, Italia que nos presenta en “The Road To Knowledge” su segundo larga duración. Iniciaron su carrera en 2004 y pusieron la primera piedra de su discografía en 2006 con la autoedición de “Ode To Maximum”. En ese disco ya se intuían las influencias e inquietudes poco habituales del grupo. Dichas tendencias se ven claramente reflejadas en “The Road To Knowledge”, un disco conceptual basado en la controvertida novela de Carlos Castaneda “The Teachings Of Don Juan”, el relato en el que el antropólogo narra el tiempo que pasó junto a un chamán llamado Juan Matus, que le introdujo en la cultura y ritualismo tolteca.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Esta obra pretende ir mucho más allá de la simple musicalidad y convertirse en una experiencia casi espiritual para los oyentes, por eso es de suma importancia prestar máxima atención a las canciones, escucharlas relajadamente y sin interrupciones. Quizás de esta manera algunos lleguéis a traspasar las puertas de la música.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No resultaría excesivamente difícil ya que Zippo despliega un ecléptico estilo musical muy difícil de definir en este disco. Rock, Metal, Stoner, Progresivo, todo ello se da la mano en este lanzamiento que no ignora, incluso, algunas influencias más peregrinas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Partiendo desde la inquietante intro “Don Juan’s Words”, el disco nos conduce por un camino que muy pocos han andado antes, a través de una cultura milenaria con temas como “El Sittio” o la homónima “The Road To Knowledge”. Desde los primeros acordes se hace evidente la versatilidad compositiva de esta formación italiana. Una cualidad que sin duda es clave a la hora de aunar tantas y tan dispares influencias en un sonido bastante único y personal que les hace claramente reconocibles. Los más prudente sería, con bastante seguridad, encuadrarles dentro del rock progresivo, aunque esta definición (tan amplia, tan indefinida y concreta al mismo tiempo) pueda dar una imagen distorsionada de su sonido. Y es que Zippo tienen una de las propuestas musicales menos convencionales de la escena.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Tras el interludio acústico “He Is Outside us”, el tema “Chihuahua Valley” se destapa como un corte enrevesado y potente, en una suerte de matrimonio entre Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains y ciertas tendencias psicodélicas que lo convierten en una canción casi hipnótica, trascendental. Una composición del más alto nivel acompañada de una más que notable habilidad interpretativa. “Ask Yourself A Question” es uno de mis cortes favoritos, con una interpretación vocal personal, íntima, muy bien llevada técnicamente y que contribuye notablemente a crear la atmósfera penumbrosa y cargada de misterio que los instrumentos construyen poco a poco. Y entonces el caos, un estribillo desgarrador, nacido del caos que solo el más cuidado orden puede producir.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Pasando por momentos de oscura relajación y brillante excitación, el grupo conduce el disco por un camino misterioso, completamente lleno de sorpresas y reacciones inesperadas. No voy a desvelar más detalles al respecto, porque verdaderamente estamos ante uno de esos lanzamientos que es mejor escuchar por uno mismo, por lo complicado que resulta definirlo y por lo subjetivas que pueden resultar las impresiones sobre una música pensada para despertar o evocar algunos aspectos espirituales en el oyente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un lanzamiento sorprendente, que será del agrado de los fans de los sonidos poco habituales y los laberintos musicales.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;David Rodrigo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;www.metalcry.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-420655877538027404?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/420655877538027404/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-metalcrycom-spain.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/420655877538027404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/420655877538027404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-on-metalcrycom-spain.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;METALCRY.COM&apos; (Spain)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMZxhdaX4I/AAAAAAAAAPg/U29poXIDSMM/s72-c/200per200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-1779469682061453194</id><published>2010-07-18T08:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T08:14:42.517-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Headbang.it'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'HEADBANG.IT' (Italy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;h2 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(11, 11, 11); font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;ZIPPO - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;The Road To &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:large;"&gt;Knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h3 style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3  style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; color:transparent;"&gt;&lt;strong  style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- font-weight: bold; color:transparent;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;8/10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p  style="margin-top: 25px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- color:transparent;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMYpDy-s1I/AAAAAAAAAPY/toOMDOooenI/s200/200per200.jpg" style="text-align: justify;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495263063994970962" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Cosa significa suonare stoner nel 2009? Per molti riproporre in copia quanto fatto da mostri sacri del genere, vedasi Kyuss e compagnia varia o nella peggiore delle ipotesi trascinarsi dietro gli stilemi tipici di band più commerciali, per quanto valide, impostesi negli ultimi anni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ma come tutte le mode del momento, alla fine chi viene fuori è solo chi merita veramente e così dopo un periodo talmente ingolfato di uscite da portare alla ribalta acts decisamente mediocri ma pompate all'inverosimile, l'attenzione è focalizzata finalmente su quelle bands che hanno qualcosa da dire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;E' questo il caso degli Zippo, realtà pescarese che aveva già saputo imporre il proprio nome nell'ambito underground grazie all'ottimo predecessore, "Ode to Maximum" uscito ormai tre anni orsono e soprattutto una serie ininterrota di date spese a sudare su palchi e clubs italiani e non solo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Uscito sotto le ali protettive della Subsound Records, "The Road to Knowledge" non solo conferma le enormi potenzialità del quintetto abruzzese, ma le spinge notevolmente in avanti dando forma ad un lavoro che possiamo tranquillamente annoverare tra le migliori uscite di questo 2009.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;L'album in questione rappresenta un'opera ambiziosa e riuscita alla grande, in cui i nostri oltre ad evolvere il proprio sound in qualcosa di estremamente difficile da catalogare, si avventurano nella composizione di un vero e proprio concept basato sull'opera "Gli Insegnamenti di Don Juan" di Carlos Castaneda.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un vero e proprio viaggio quello che gli Zippo ci propongono, un album tanto difficile quanto affascinante in cui i 13 capitoli che si susseguono in quasi un'ora di musica non possono essere considerati singolarmente ma vanno visti sempre all'interno del contesto generale di un lavoro capace di toccare più angoli di una musica sorprendentemente varia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Parlando dell'aspetto musicale, è facile notare come la band pescarese pur rimanendo ancorata ad un concetto di base che affonda le proprie radici nel 'desert rock' tanto caro ai Kyuss (probabilmente la principale influenza dei nostri) con un appeal fortemente psichedelico, vanno decisamente oltre forgiando un sound quasi incatalogabile con soluzioni che molte volte attingono tanto dal doom classico, quanto dal grunge, da altre influenze più progressive (Tool) ma più in generale da un approccio incredibilmente "fresco" e per certi versi difficile da sentire altrove, una sorta di post-stoner di classe se mi passate il termine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Non aspettatevi il classico brano "strofa-ritornello-strofa" all'interno di questo lavoro, c'è solo tantissimo spazio per un riffing tante volte pachidermico quanto molte volte più rilassato, tra brani più immediati e potenti come "El Sitio" ad altri più soffusi e rilassati come in "Three Silver Crows". Non c'è un momento minimamente prevedibile in questo "The Road to Knowledge, non una soluzione che possa in qualche modo far già presagire in anticipo come si andrà a sviluppare il brano; date un'ascoltata all'incredibile quanto imprevedibile incedere di "Ask Yourself a Question" tanto per capirci.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Riverberi di chitarra continui, momenti apparentemente statici in cui in sottofondo è incredibile il lavoro strumentale impreziosito tante volte anche dall'inserimento di strumentazione meno "consona" alla band come banjo, chitarra acustica o piano, insomma di carne a fuoco in questo album ce n'è davvero parecchia, e davvero era tanto tempo che non mi trovavo così in difficoltà nel descrivere una proposta che va assolutamente ascoltata, dal primo all'ultimo brano e possibilmente più di una volta, per coglierne la reale essenza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Che dire poi dell'iconografia rappresentata all'interno dell'accuratissimo booklet in cui le illustrazioni (opera di Silvio Spina e del bassista Stonino) sembrano essere la rappresentazione perfetta del mondo descritto da Castaneda nella sua opera visionaria.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il tutto condito dalla prestazione al solito pulita e perfetta di Dave, le cui vocals potenti e dalle mille sfaccettature ottimamente si adattano alla musica della band, a suo agio tanto nelle parti più aggressive quanto in quelle più melodiche, con un'improvvisa e gradita sorpresa nel finale della già citata "Three Silver Crows" in cui viene mostrata anche un'impennata hardcore che non sfigura affatto nel contesto in cui è posta, anzi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Da segnalare la partecipazione di tanti graditi ospiti che prestano la loro collaborazione sia dal punto di vista strumentale quanto nell'ambito compositivo, è il caso questo di "Reality is What I Feel" che vede la partecipazione di Alessio D'Onofrio chitarrista degli abruzzesi Santo Niente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In definitiva, "The Road to Knowledge" è un album ambizioso, difficile da approcciare, in un unico aggettivo bellissimo. Una prova di maturità di una band che si conferma pienamente come una delle più interessanti nell'ambito underground locale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Accorato consiglio per gli acquisti da parte mia, dategli una possibilità e non ve ne pentirete!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thrasher&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;www.headbang.it&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1289490447208098940-1779469682061453194?l=zippomusic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/feeds/1779469682061453194/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/zippo-road-to-knowledge-810-cosa.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1779469682061453194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1289490447208098940/posts/default/1779469682061453194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://zippomusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/zippo-road-to-knowledge-810-cosa.html' title='REVIEW ON &apos;HEADBANG.IT&apos; (Italy)'/><author><name>ZIPPO</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02013934378622254020</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqPNcIwrYsY/TEMYpDy-s1I/AAAAAAAAAPY/toOMDOooenI/s72-c/200per200.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289490447208098940.post-8960110713902041125</id><published>2010-07-18T07:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T08:00:15.968-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Visions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Road To Knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zippo'/><title type='text'>REVIEW ON 'VISIONS' (Germany)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;font-size:12px;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;ZIPPO - The Road To Knowledge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; 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font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Über die Größe einer Feuerzeugflamme kommen die Kiff-Rocker Zippo mit ihrem Stonertum nicht hinaus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:georgia;"&gt;Feuriger Stoner Rock? Na ja. Zumindest innen brennt das Feuer heiß: „Chihuahua Valley“ erinnert mit seinen Vocals an einen zehn Jahre jüngeren (und gesünderen) Max Cavalera, der den Mund voller nehmen kann als die dünnpappigen Gitarren rechts und links ne
