Vanadium - 1983 A Race With The Devil

Genre: Heavy Metal

Country: Italy

Format: MP3/160 Kbps

Size: 45700 KB

Released: 1983

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This is the legentary Italian 80's Heavy Metal Band.

Italy's Vanadium have the honor being one of the first bands from the nation toassert themselves in the post NWOBHM world.

This LP is a masterpiece. A must have for everybody. Specially For collectors.Vanadium…oh, almighty Vanadium

Already from the beginning of their career and the first album in 1982, they could count on a good distribution and on quite numerous live shows and TV appearances. “A Race With The Devil” is their second full length. The band guided by Pino Scotto was very close to Deep Purple in the approach but with its own personality and excellent technique. Actually they were more in heavy metal, and sometimes they can remember early Iron Maiden, an inevitable influence for the period. Pino Scotto’s voice is a trademark: he can be so soft in a heavy metal ballad like “Don’t be Looking Back” but also aggressive in the other songs like the fast beginning of “Get Up, Shake Up”, going very high in tonality without being in falsetto, always keeping a quite harsh, warm tonality. All in all a great voice that still nowadays remains powerful with his new band Fire Trails (name taken from the song in this album, dedicated to Bon Scott).The pure passion for this genre is well demonstrated during the whole burning album, made of pure heavy metal and the title track, its manifest. Fast hard rock riffs, pure old style melodic/epic (in a good way, not like in German power crappy metal) solos and the passionate keys sound. So evident the blues background in their skills, beautiful. The riffs are always catchy and always so “dirty” like its meant to be for the genre. The production is a bit low budget, normal for a group like this in Italy but this helps in giving a more pure and passionate sound that makes me very happy comparing to bombastic productions with no musical content at all by other more famous groups. The beginning of “Running Wild” is so untamed, pure and…what a solo…beautiful. Passing through the melancholic “Fire Trails” and the rock’n’roll influenced “Outside The society” we can really breathe the true essence of 80s heavy metal made with guts in those years.The beautiful, epic instrumental “Russian Roulette” put the exclamation point to an album made of pure passion, rage, love and sweat. Great band, great album that doesn’t fear to be compared to those more famous outside Italy. A real shining gem.

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The Band

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Pino Scotto (vocals)

Steve Tessarin (guitar)

Ruggero Zanolini (keyboards)

Mimmo Prantera (bass)

Lio Mascheroni (drums)

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Track List

1.Get Up, Shake Up 04:45
2.I Gotta Clash with You 04:45
3.Don't Be Looking Back 06:17
4.A Race with the Devil 04:30
5.Running Wild 05:27
6.Fire Trails 03:53
7.Outside of Society 05:16
8.Russian Roulette 04:47

Total playing time 38:40

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Enjoy!