A Heavy Power Metal band hailing from Italy. The band was formed in 2001, releasing a handful of releases. October 27th, 2018, saw the band releasing their fifth studio album, City Of Ruins. The album was released through Punishment 18 Records.
Introduction:
Ibridoma, City Of Ruins: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production. Our analysis will provide valuable insights to help you determine if this album is worth adding to your collection.
The First Three Sins of City Of Ruins
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Ibridoma and their City Of Ruins album.
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Features guitar work—with riffs that are both heavy, catchy yet progressive and melodic combined with the powerful fret-board virtuoso solos. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves soaring vocals that are clean and polished, with a hint of aggression and a chorus. The Third Sin—The Percussions: This delves into the vast world of a wide range of beats, patterns, and fills.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion: Collection of heavy metal songs of an epic tale, poetically…
When the play button is pressed, forget any fancy and epic opening on City Of Ruins.
City Of Ruins is pure adrenaline of playing style of heavy metal and power metal style; this is an Italian heavyweight without any rules and does not stick to one method; from the start to the end, the album is full of traditional heavy metal sound, with a lot of Teutonic thrash, melodic power metal and American 80s hard rock days vibe and beautifully executed.
I thoroughly enjoyed the music and the band’s playing style; out of the ten tracks, not one song or sounds the same.
Each track delivers various compositions of individually unique and creative guitar work, giving us the most excellent catchy/raunchy-smart melodic riffs/solos.
Ibridoma‘s vocal arrangements are outstanding and remarkable, pulling off some of the best rates and tones I’ve heard in a long time. (I could not keep up with the vocals, and many times the range and tone changed so many times) the whole album, riffs, drums, vocals, songs, and the music change in direction, tempos, mood, and melodies will surely get your blood pumping and your headbanging.
While the entire album was impressive, two songs stood out for me (track four), Di Nuovo Inverno, and (closing track ten) I’m Broken. Track four (for me) was the sad part of the concept of the story, while the lyrical/singing intertwined English and Italian and poetic power metal and heavy metal.
In contrast, the closing track delivers a slow piece, with additional acoustic guitar and the most powerful song, which finishes the album off nicely, ending this epic tale poetically. We want to give a shoutout to Punishment 18 Records for letting us review Ibridoma, and their album City Of Ruins. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
You’re Listening to “City of Ruins”
PlayThe Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins, our thoughts on Ibridoma and their City Of Ruins album.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia: Is that for us, everything in the album, track four, and Christian‘s singing style are the most notable.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
The artwork shows an angel/falling angel upon a falling city, a story of an end of the world “Armageddon /Day of Judgement” or “Angel of War.” Very dark and grand, giving an impression of sorrow, destruction and war.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Ibridoma, and their album City Of Ruins.
This concludes the Ibridoma, City Of Ruins Review.
Track-Listing:
- Sadness Come
- Evil Wind
- T.F.U
- Di Nuovo Inverno
- City of Ruins
- Angel of War
- My Nightmare
- Fragile
- Terminator
- I’m Broken
Ibridoma is:
- Alessandro Morroni – drums
- Christian Bartolacci – vocals
- Marco Vitali – guitars
- Leonardo Ciccarelli – bass
- Sebastiano Ciccalè – guitars
