Release Date: February 21st, 2025
Label: Scarlet Records
Genre: Operatic Power Metal
Links: https://scarletrecords.bandcamp.com/album/triumviro
Line Up:
Tomi Fooler – vocals
Giacomo Voli – vocals
Ivan Giannini – vocals
Simone Mularoni – guitar
Francesco Ferraro – bass
Daniele Mazza – orchestras and arrangements
Alessio Lucatti – keyboards and piano
Michael Ehrè – drums
Tracklist:
Holy Land
The 7th Guild
Glorious
La Promessa Cremisi
In Nomine Patris
Time
Guardians Of Eternity
The Metal Charade
Fairy Tale
It’s time for the debut album from Skeletoon’s frontman and leader Tomi Fooler to apply the concept of The Three Tenors to the power metal genre, with Avantasia bringing theatrical power metal to the masses to great acclaim.
On an album we never knew we needed but are now very grateful to him for having the vision to bring us this, Tomi has recruited Ivan Giannini (former Derdian, Vision Divine) and Giacomo Voli (Rhapsody of Fire) on vocals, giving us the three metal tenors. He backs this up with a stable of formidable musicians: Michael Ehrè – drums, Alessio Lucatti – piano and keyboards, Daniele Mazza – arrangements and orchestras, Francesco Ferraro – bass, and Simone Mularoni – guitar. If you know your power metal, some if not all of those you’ll recognise.
This is an album that needs, nay, deserves to be played loud and to the exclusion of all other sounds, with the drums and bass galloping carrying the songs across vast open plains whilst overhead soaring guitars fly. Some of the finest harmonies known to man are created by the interplay between the vocalists. Triumviro warrants your attention because The 7th Guild remind us what “huge” “good” “clean” voices can truly do, in a world that seems to rate vocalists on how much gravel they can gargle before screaming into a microphone.
If that original Three Tenors release you do remember, then you’ll appreciate just how good this is. And a superb one at that. It might be a power metal album but in truth, it’s a vocalist’s album.
Score 9/10
Reviewed by Adrian Hextall
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