Providing a debut album easy to suspect most heavy metal fans will find plenty within to spark an eager appetite, Silver P is the solo project of guitarist Pugnale, alias Roberto Colombini. The self-titled release though also embraces a host of rock and metal flavours to its creative heart providing an even wider range of ears a rich and intriguing experience.
Creating Silver P early 2017, Pugnale approached drummer/sound engineer Antonio Inserillo with a clutch of songs a few months later, persuading him to get on board with the emerging project. Finding a singer was a more difficult issue but eventfully Alex Jarusso was enlisted to the Italian band’s line-up, in turn becoming a quartet for the album with bassist Alessandro Cola. Their sound takes inspiration from the likes of Airbourne, Dio, and Megadeth but finds its own if not unique certainly distinct voice within a first album released through Red Cat Records.
The Deep Breath Before The Plunge opens up the release, its dramatic instrumental landscape a firmly magnetic intro to the release. The imagination easily ran with its epic and growing theatre of intimation and sound before Fields Of War erupts from its portentous air with an armoury of infectious riffs and rhythmic confrontation. The classic/eighties metal influenced delivery of Jarusso soon erupts from the battlefield and though it is a general vocal flavouring which we generally find hard to embrace as a style, his presence and prowess only adds to the track’s heavy/classic metal nurtured appeal and enjoyment.
Pugnale’s guitar craft and enterprise is another potent feature and provides even more attention grabbing enticement within next up Road To Hell, his grooves wrapping round ears with infectious intent as the rhythms of Inserillo and Cola rap and throb with flirtatious aggression. Growing into a definite best track contender it is swiftly rivalled by the blues rock lined strum of Memories; a track with a whiff of stoner rock and grunge to its relatively calm but increasingly tempestuous climate
Thrash and alternative hues colour the metal heart of The Net, wiry grooves luring quick pleasure into a just as enjoyable web of heavy and classic metal smelted invention. It is a trap as unpredictable as it is familiar in certain ways and another song adding to the album’s best passage of tracks though A Shade In Light with its opening feral riffs and nagging grooves within predacious shadows is as attention enslaving as anything around it. It never relinquishes that hold either as its dark trespass and melody woven predation continues to captivate.
Out Of This World follows and also ensures a compelling engagement with ears and appetite. It too has a darkness to its body and air which is disrupted and seared by bewitching sonic flames and melody hot tendrils and it is maybe no coincidence that for us the truly standout tracks are those bred in the shadows.
The thrash poked chug of I8 is old school metal/hard rock at its most wild and frivolous but built on open craft and adventurous mischief which seems to get more daring by the twist while Straight At The Heart closes things up by uncaging a rock ‘n’ roll holler not too hard to have body and spirit bouncing with.
Generally classic/heavy metal is a flavour others will appreciate more than us here but we cannot deny that Silver P, band and album, pleasured and captivated before getting under the skin in many ways.
Silver P is out now via Red Cat Records across all worldwide digital stores.
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Pete RingMaster 18/10/2018
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Has it been organic, especially the movement of sound or more the band deliberately wanting to try new things?
Was there a particular idea behind the forming of the band and also in what you wanted your sound to offer?
The following Black Day In Paradise has a similarly potent template and presence to it but also an additional drama which flirts through bass and guitars as vocals and keys colour their predation with a warmer invitation and adventure. Its elevated energy, compared to that of its predecessor, also adds a more anthemic feel to the song, setting up ears and appetite nicely for the EP’s best two tracks which start with Virtual Freedom. Instantly there is a darker more intimidating edge to the song, riffs and rhythms aggressively alluring as slithers of sonic acidity spear the tempestuous character of the encounter. Zvekan prowls the song, roaring with full throated skill throughout whilst Stump once more uncages a fiery intrigue of imagination through one blazing solo and spiky melodic tempting. The track is outstanding, invention and anthem tattooed on its creative predation.
Sinister Realm which helps keeps the adventure fresh?
The album and song titles seem bred from the shadows and less savoury aspects of this earth and its inhabitants. This is the main inspiration for your ideas and songs generally as you touched on earlier?
ammunition to remedy that?
and Sex Pistols into their own voracious adventure and spite, the album is not unearthing new ground but considering the songs were written and created well over a decade ago you feel at the time of its birth the it was ahead of the game at the time. As the lead off track and first single from the album Take launches caustically at the ear attention and senses are immediately awoken with a seed of good appetite also finding its bearings as the vocals of Workman and the great fiery riffs make their presence firmly known. Expecting the track to explode into a fury of energy it wrong foots with a lumbering almost doom lit twist before unleashing the full intensity of the track with rhythms and guitars offering a compelling abrasion and the bass prowling it all with saliva dripping malice. The song continues to bring an ever evolving unpredictable venture, a seamless flow of ideas and direction which makes captivation and hunger an easy response.
throughout the release its throaty steely tone revolving through seductive to carnivorous but perpetually darkening the shadows, breath, and creative presence of songs wonderfully. It is a bestial predator which gives an intimidation and menace to every second of the release taking the listener into hidden dangers tempering the melodic flames which equally enhance and fire up the release.