Band:	Revoltons
Album:	Night Visions
Style:	Progressive power metal, Thrash metal
Release date:	October 20, 2003
A review by:	Malcolm

01. Eternal Pain
02. Cell Of Death
03. Hands Of Magellano
04. Before The Dawn
05. Reality Met Childhood
06. The Old Walls
07. Malcom's Drama
08. Time For Worlds Inside
09. The Autumn Believer
10. The Court's Fool

I have talking about surprises a lot lately, and believe me, I'm not finish yet.
The third and last of the Limb releases is the Italy five-piece band "Revoltons".
Their music is a mixture of "Symphony X" and their compatriots "Rhapsody", and believe me, this is something over the usual.
I have never been a fan of Progressive Metal or Progressive Power Metal, but this album has changed that fact.
When I saw "Symphony X" as a support band to "Stratovarius" in march this year, I suffered a lot, I hated it, couldn't stand it.
I know many of you love "Symphony X" but I'm not one of you guys.
So when I heard that "Revoltons" was a Progressive Power Metal band like "Symphony X" mixture with "Rhapsody" I didn't hope too much of this album. So I saved this album to last, of those three Limb releases, 'cause I wanted to review the best first.

Well, believe me, when I pushed the play button and the Intro had gone away and the first song started to play in my speakers, I knew that this album would change my point of view on Power Progg forever.
The only things that worried me was the singer, would he fit in to this heavy sound?
Well, no, not in the first song, "Cell of Death", so then I was a bit disappointed, but when I heard the rest of the album, I changed my mind, he fit's perfect.

This is a perfect example how Progressive Power Metal albums shall sound like, drums heavy as lead and technical guitars and much bass. And even the singers (Andro) falsetto singing fits into this album. A great HARD album.

"Revoltons" was established of tree cousins, Andrea (Keyboards), Alex (Guitar) and Pietro Corona (Drums), back in 1991, back then they were a cover band.
They released their first demo in 2000, "See You Soon in the End of Time" got great reviews worldwide and a year later the second demo was released, "The Autumn Believer". Precisely as the first demo, it received great reviews and several record companies was interested as well.
But unfortunately their longtime singer Gianni Rui quitted just a year after the release of the second demo.
Drummer Pietro Corona left too, he got a fulltime job, tragically he died of a heart attack shortly after, he was just 26 years old.
"Revoltons" (the rest of the band) honored him on his funeral by playing "Hands of Magellano"
The found a new drummer, Giorgio "Pittore" Murer and a new singer joined the band, but the band had already finish the album on all parts except the vocals, so when Andro, the new singer, joined he jumped in to the studio and recorded the vocal part.

This is a really talent band, that you really should give a chance, even if you, as I, really don't like Progressive Metal or Power Progressive Metal, but they have a kind of attractive force, that makes me really like them, and likely you to, if you give them a chance.
Those heavy drums makes drool, damn, I like them.

The production it out of complaint, it's harder to find an album with bad production than good these days.

So, to end the whole thing, this is a killer release, in it's genre, no doubt, but I'm feeling a bit sorry for this guys, 'cause they will never get the respond they deserve for this release, but I hope that their successor will be as good as this and I hope I will be the one that gets to review it.


Killing Songs: All, and I mean ALL.