NOVEMBER-7

"Awaraxid 7 mg"

1: Tug Of War
2: Acid Life
3: Black Veil
4: Another Day
5: Wicked Love
6: In Denial
7: Alive ?
8: Pieces Of Me
9: Your Turn
10: Black And White

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November 7 comes back with a very special album which aim is to give a special medicine that may heal us from adulthood, and bring back our childhood dreams…A great idea that can let us dream, and absolutely show a mature band able to write good and fashionable music….

November 7 music becomes more and more difficult to label, but this is the real quality of the band that can be appreciable either from alternative rock fans but also modern electro rockers…They seems not showing gothic and symphonic marks.
Unlike most of the female singers AnnaMaria shows a very powerful voice, able to give emphasis and pathos where it needs, but also strength and power in each kind of song…

Let’s start talking about the songs that make part of this album…
"Tug of War"…it’s a shot ! Pure alternative metal full of energies , in which I notice the confidence they have to mix industrial electro tunes to modern metal….
“The Dose” goes on with “Acid Life” which still show a very particular kind of groove , not resemble to any other band….there’s a blurry shadow of “In this Moment” (American band), but comparing to the first album , the Swiss band has worked more about arrangements in order to find a personal own style…

The songs are identifiable into the same mother lode and those who likes this album can’t but involved listening to “Another Day” that shows a very involving powerful melancholic refrain into a great arrangement…
“Wicked Love” and “In Denial” don’t drive me crazy…they’re good songs…but in my personal opinion in that point of the album..(5° and 6° track) the  thunderous  sound of those songs could make the album too “hammering” for the listener…even if this is a very personal consideration!

Fortunately “Alive” completely changes the things; a very great song in which the band changes a little bit the direction, keeping the same soul…but showing a very decaying vision; The song gets a very memorable melody in which AnnaMaria gets out  a certain kind of “Fragility” performing a very amazing interpretation.
“Your Turn” remind me a lot of 90’s alternative metal bands (Guano Apes) but absolutely modern for what concern the interpretation and the musical approach…and still show the absolutely modern arrangement.

The acoustic "ballad" "Black and White" closed this album showing us a mature band that has found his own way to his music, counting on great musicians and a very awesome work made in the studio and not only in the rehearsal room.

 This “unconventional” metal…has no rules…corrupted by different styles but absolutely pure and  powerful! A great come back!

  8,5/10

review by Salvo Russo