Shoggoth

Shoggoth is an obscure prog metal band from Italy, with I guess 3-4 albums in their pockets. The last album they've done before disbanding is Combination from 1997. They were active in the '90's only. Well, if the instrumental music is most of the time ok, even great in places, I have serious problems witht the vocal parts. Gianni Caroppi who is responsable for bass lines and keyboards arrangements, he done the vocal parts, well the voice is almost bad is can get, I mean without range, dull and with no melodic lines, forgetable to my ears. The instrumental parts are ok , there are some nice duels between guitars and keyboards, but while are good , doesn't bring nothing new in the genre. Pieces like The Dance of the Voltures or Reason are more then decent, the rest are only ok. There is even a Rush cover of famous 2112, is pretty well done in this context even the magic of the original is no present here. 3 stars to me, ok but far from being something of real intrest.
b_olariu Nov 15 2013