Band: Sesta Marconi
Album: Where The Devil Dances
Genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal / Doom

In most cases when you throw in a new CD by a band you have never heard before you can still manage to place some sort of style or genre of music on them. In a few cases you get bands that are multi-genre and it's hard to place them in any one style. With Sesta Marconi you can clearly hear certain styles and yet I find it very hard to label them in any one area without adding "with a mix or touch of this". They obviously are a heavy rock formation and add a great bit of stoner and doom influences while managing to bring together elements of jazz and phycodelic rock and actually make it all work very well. The music flows through down-tuned passages, intense chorus's, heavy rock feedback and apply them all into what can only be some sort of rock meets doom hybrid. In any direction you want to take this, the end result is enevitable ... that this is just a unuique and talented group of guys paving a path between all the many styles of music and artists creating their own vibe.

The bands latest effort "where the devil dances" is a dark album that reflects the personalities of the band in such a way that you feel you know where they are coming from having felt or been in similar surroundings yourself but then they add a gypse's twist to things in that the music and lyrics take on their own definitions and their own laws. The disc has a massive heavyness about it and yet seems to keep a level ground between the rock and metal genres. The first track "Gruesome Woe" pulls off some classy jass bass lines and guitar volume swells that set the groove and It leads you down the start of an album that is bright with darkness. "Skeletons Party" is a real catchy piece that delivers a knockout punch. This is a rocking tune filled with a long lasting influence and desire to sing along. It also goes way deep into the doom side of things creeping along barely enough to stand balanced and then finishes up with the bar room jazzadelics. "LSWD" (life sucks without drugs) a heavy footstomping groove song with some excellent guitar work both in riffage and solo, even a detuned moment at the end. This is an eye closer that sways and leaves you in a trance. "Rock And Roll Voodoo Style" is an eerie swamp tune that has a consistant flow of urginging you into the depths of Sesta Marconi's minds. They seem to speak, play, write and tell the stories of what they are and believe which is what makes them so intriguing to me. "The Crack of Dawn keeps in line with the 4 previous tracks and spell bounds you into the realm of doom and roll. Lifting you up to new highs and taken you down to ultimate lows. "Vanitas (The Leper Queen) is probably the most brilliant song on the disc. clocking in at just under 14 minutes this song takes you down a road of a queen fallen from grace for her sinful act of destroying the sacrement of Christ and therefor must be purified by flames. A leper with the wisest of words cast a spell against the king and fates the queen to become leper bitch of his realm. The music of this song is a roller coaster of ups and downs, distorted guitar pleeds beckoning your souls, vocals haunting your very existance and a drum and bass connection providing mood and story scenes. The last track has a John Paul Jones (Led Zeepelin) esquit about it. A smoke filled room chilling with killer weed and a black light while listening to some bluesy mellow music. nothing better in my mind.

Throughout this disc there is a huge 70's vibe with a modern approach with plenty of dark doom and gloom modulations. This disc reminds me of several bands but nothing that is mimicked or copied just a feel and style about it. Acid Bath meets blue Cheer maybe ... lots of jazz, psychodelic, blues and heavy retro rock sounds that can be on the lighter side of metal with doom dependancies.

Rating: 9/11