Italian progressive Rock/Metal band Raven Sad released the single “The Obsidian Mirror” taken from their upcoming new album “Polar Human Circle” out on October 25, 2024 via AMS Records. Stream the track through the YouTube player below:
“Polar Human Circle” is the fifth album by Raven Sad, a project born in 2005 on the initiative of multi-instrumentalist and main composer Samuele Santanna; since the previous “The Leaf and the Wing” (2021) the band’s line-up enjoys a solidity that perfectly reflect in the seven tracks of this work.
“Polar Human Circle” is another enthralling Progressive journey through intense soundscapes with a strong evocative power, a concept whose lyrics, sung by Gabriele Marconcini’s expressive voice, lead the listener to question our species’ actual survival ability. Within an international-scope sonic texture which, thanks to a hard edge and obscure side – unprecedented in the band’s music style – blends 90s Prog Metal (Queensrÿche) with more modern sounds (Riverside, Porcupine Tree, but also Marillion’s most recent works), Raven Sad combine songs here shorter and more immediate than in the past with an epic title track that, in almost 27 minutes, unfolds among Psychedelia, orchestral sections and dissonant fugues.
Raven Sad also relied once again on Sonoria Studio (Prato, Italy) whose owner Andrea Benassai took care of the album’s orchestral arrangements too; on the iconographic side of things, the sidereal and tangible photographs by Gustav Willeit play an equally important role, constituting an essential visual element and a concrete scenery along the journey of “Polar Human Circle” towards the borders of civilisation.
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Tracklist:
01. Andenes
02. When the summer collapses into fall
03. Coda: A tiny passage to outer state
04. Point Nemo (Nautilus last voyage)
05. The obsidian mirror
06. The bringer of light
07. Polar human circle
Lineup:
Samuele Santanna / Guitars
Fabrizio Trinci / Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Gabriele Marconcini / Vocals
Francesco Carnesecchi / Drums
Marco Geri / Bass Guitar