Dreams d'Azur

Novembre's Dreams D'azur, is the re-recording of their first album, "Wish I could dream it again", which had not a too good production. Anyway, since I heard them both, I must say that they still sound far away different, even if the songs are theorically the same.

Partially, this happens because of the new production, partially because of Carmelo's vocals, and partially simply because they made some changes in the songs. This album sounds more like Classica than Novembrine Waltz, but I personally think that it ends to be their best one, along with Classica.

Novembre is a band able to create an unique sound and atmosphere, infact it's really hard to classify them in a specific genre of metal. The structures of the songs are not the most typical and used, they remind at the progressive style, since they never repeat parts of the songs and don't use any kind of choruses.

The songs are really melodic, with some heavy parts and some sweet parts, with growling vocals and clean vocals mixing in a perfect harmony. They made each track really different, with some which remind to a melodic death metal sound, like Let Me Hate or Old Lighthouse Tale, some which seems more doomish, like Christal, and some with gothic atmospheres, like Sirens in filth. Every song tends to grow second after second, using crescendos and climaxes, sometimes exploding suddenly like Novembre (name of a track), where after a long and quiet part, the drumming gets a lot faster and the vocals turn into an hard growling; or The Music. Sometimes they can instead slow down quickly (the really end of Novembre, or Sirens in Filth's ending with the piano solo), making the progressions awesome.

Their melodic cut was already notable in the previous works and you'll notice immediately their unique sound, someone says that they remember the old Katatonia or Opeth. The lyrics are all around the sea or the water, but talk about relationship struggles or nature, dreams and thoughtful themes.

I also think that they are really capable to catch up people on the emotive side with their music, transmitting sadness, rage or other emotions with the growls and the melodies created by the instruments.

I personally love "The dream of the old boats", "Sirens in filth", "Swim seagull in the sky" and "The white eyed", but each track has a solid sound. I really recommend this album to everyone, especially if you want to listen to something particular, I think that they are probably the best italian metal band.