Fury 'n' Grace - Tales Of The Grotesque And The Arabesque

\r\nFrom what I’ve read in the internet because I must say I didn’t have a clue about this Italian band or even their existence for that matter, "Tales Of The Grotesque And The Arabesque" is their debut album although this band exists since 1994!In the past they have recorded two demos and two albums but neither never saw the light of the musical world. With former singer of the epic-doom metal band Doomsword, Gabriele Grilli, best known as "Wrathlord" and "Nightcomer" in their ranks, Fury ’n’ Grace features a rather fastidious song structure reminding early Psychotic Waltz, Dream Theater and even Nevermore. Opulent, progressive, theatrical music and songs that most of the time have a very long duration with many breaks, and constant speed and rhythm changes with dynamic, riff-oriented sections and which continually rotate between calm, atmospheric moments isolated thrash elements, from melodic choruses and doom sluggish themes to ‘70s prog rock and all that with a really pervasive dramatic tendency. Baring the name of one of E. A. Poe’s books (a story collection of Edgard Allan Poe published in 1839) "Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque" is a continuous experimentation that almost possesses the rhythm of a story book unfolding from the warm and articulated voice of Gabriele Grilli and the scratching guitars that interlock jazz, fusion, neoclassical and progressive sounds and the overall arrangements that create a versatile and uncommonly various kind of atmosphere. The central presence in this album surely there is no other than their singer with his variegate personality and his intensive expression and vocal-like qualities that seems to follow the Bruce Dickinson school. Summing up this album can be described only with one word, experimental. And though its music is highly transparent and engaging surely it is not something that a normal ear can easily absorb or succumb into. Yet they surely deserve your checking out on them.\r\n