My Journey into Discovering More Metal Bands from Italy 🇮🇹

[@Sinheresy]

Thanks for including us, really appreciated! 🙏 Great video, keep it up with this good work 🤘💥

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

[@lunarisalpha]

Awesome video. Thanx for sharing Italian Metal. I played in OperaIX as keyboard player for 4 albums: Sacro Culto, The Black Opera, Maleventum and Anphisbena. Thumb up for your research.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

That's so cool. I will have to listen to the other albums soon.

[@lunarisalpha]

​@@jcrockandmetalreviewsthank you very much. Take a look to Skoll, Pagan Black Metal band and Teuta, my actual band. I hope you like them. Thanks a lot for your work.

[@cristianosorio2517]

Hi John!!! Nice to see part II of cool itialian bands.... some of them i have never heard before. I think i will trying to listen to Extrema, Sinheresy and DGM. cheers and be well

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

They are pretty cool.

[@albertovalcarenghi350]

If you're looking for recommendations for italian band, other than Domine (which I've already mentioned in your prevous video), you should check also "Furor Gallico" and their album Dusk of the Ages

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks. I'll keep it in mind.

[@lunalamiah1986]

@@jcrockandmetalreviewsDomine with “Dragonlord” is the top for an italian way to Epic Metal. They formed in 1983 😁🤘

[@lunalamiah1986]

And Folkstone 🤘🇮🇹

[@albertovalcarenghi350]

@@lunalamiah1986 silly me.... i should have mentioned them in the first place!

[@lunalamiah1986]

@@albertovalcarenghi350 ma sei italiano come me 😁

[@mtaffer]

Thanks for covering DGM. "Endless" is a departure from their signature style. They actually recorded two albums at the same time, the other being "Life" which came out in October the year before and featured the heavier more power/prog version of the band..."Endless" was a surprise announcement. I first found these guys by the song and video "Reason" off the album Momentum (that also features Russell Allan from Symphony X on guest vocal accompaniment) and they quickly became one of my favorite bands because they mixed power metal with progressive metal in very short songs. I soon came to find that the previous album before Momentum (and the first with this current lineup) "Frame" put them on the map for some prog metal fans. They mostly focus on upbeat uptempo music. At this point it's not certain if "Endless" was just an experiment or if they have shifted styles. Only time will tell. The bassist is another band similar to DGM called Noveria, but their music and subject matter is quite a bit darker and the vocal style is different...still clean but just a different vibe. Thanks again JC!

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks. I'll check them out when I can.

[@albertovalcarenghi350]

Ah, Bulldozer... my first metal concert, back in the days...

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

That's awesome.

[@carmichael3594]

Lot's of great metal out of Italy👍 thanks for the video some band's i have not listened to, I'm always looking for new metal band's.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks. I am also discovering lots of new music.

[@carmichael3594]

@@jcrockandmetalreviews I've listened to every metal band you mentioned and so far my favorite one is opera IX the album call of the wood. What an excellent album. You should check out a metal band from Belarus called vistery👍 Play their latest release I'm 100 percent sure that album will blow you away

[@uovocosmico]

You say really interesting, not trivial, things about these italian bands! Keep on rockin'!

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Glad your liked it

[@Naturalman3-Deviantart]

I'm Italian and quite passionate about metal music but I didn't know many of these bands, thanks

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

That's cool. I'm also discovering new bands.

[@metalluccio]

Hi from Turin! May I suggest you a metal band from my city, called Disarmonia Mundi? they play some kind of melodic death metal with Soilwork's lead singer Björn "Speed" Strid. I love them beyond words.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks. It sounds like something that I would like.

[@tainted_lord87]

Out of all those bands, Sinheresy are the only ones I've heard of but never listened too.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

That's cool. These were all new to me based on recommendations

[@Sinheresy]

Wow, nice to read! If you want, give a spin to our latest album "Event Horizon" and let us know if you liked it 🤘

[@tainted_lord87]

@@Sinheresy Oh thanks for the response!. I'll check it out for sure. 🤘

[@uovocosmico]

Check out Drown in Sulphur, Messa and Progenie Terrestre Pura!

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks

[@Tohc13]

I strongly recommend Novembre, especially the album "Arte Novecento" a Prog Death/Doom masterpiece

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks. I got a lot of recommendations for that band.

[@brunocurko6405]

Thank you for introducing me to some interesting bands from my neighboring Italy. As you mentioned in the first Italian video, Italian bands are often connected to opera,,but also with power, and gothic metal. I also find Theatres des Vampires (again gothic) quite interesting Italian bend.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out. I like gothic bands.

[@Skarn73]

Talking about italian bands, I strongly suggest to listen to Eldritch. They started as a progressive metal band in the nineties with the albums "Seeds of Rage", "Headquake" and "El Nino" then changed their music into a more thrash / groove metal oriented sound with albums "Reverse", "Portrait of the Abyss Within" and "Neighbourhell" and then mixed the two sounds into their own personal style from the album "Blackened day" until now.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds like something that I would like.

[@slucchi723]

in Italy there was a big explosion of the power metal genre during the late 90s/early 2000s (you probably already noticed that) so we have a lot of band that played power metal, in particular following the success of Rhapsody (that you have already covered in the first video). Another bands that really were popular back in the day were Labyrinth and Domine. In a totally different style there were Linea 77 who use to be pretty successful, they were on Earache Racords back in the days.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks, I had a lot of people mention Labyrinth and Domine.

[@mtaffer]

@@slucchi723 Also Vision Divine

[@southeast4624]

As for Opera IX their first album `The call of the wood` is a must. Another band you should listen to is `Funeral Oration`, their first album is just fantastic imo despite the snare drum sound. Check them out.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks I'll check it out

[@andreabicego6923]

Hi, great videos! Greetings from Italy! Some italian bands/albums I deem essential: Labyrinth - Return to heaven denied Domine - Emperor of the black runes White Skull - Tales from the north Secret Sphere - A time never come Doomsword - Doomsword Mandragora Scream - A whisper of dew Elvenking - The pagan manifesto Among the newcomers: Alterium - Of war and flames If you also would like to check my own band, 4th Dimension, in 2011 we promoted our debut "The white path to rebirth" as opening act to Sonata Arctica on a European tour. We are currently recording our third album.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Yes thank you I had a lot of people recommend Labyrinth. So I will probably include them if I do another video.

[@ironcobra83]

I strongly recommend Destrage and maybe Subhuman 🤘🏼

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks I'll keep them in mind I have another video on Italian bands coming out tomorrow

[@ironcobra83]

@ I’m sure you’re going to like them 😉

[@lunalamiah1986]

Vanadium is very important for italian Heavy Metal in 1980 🤘🇮🇹

[@lunalamiah1986]

Evol for Black Metal (with some experimental medieval dark ambient touch) and Domine for Epic/Power Metal are our italian bands from ‘90s, they are very important. Please listen them and talk about them 🙏 For experimental cyber Metal you can listen Dope Stars Inc, they have created their own Metal genre

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks for the recomendations. I'll check them out. Dope Stars Inc sounds interesting.

[@solidaillusione839]

If you like also rock, there are a lot of great band in italy: marlene kuntz ( best album: catartica, il vile, ho ucciso paranoia), afterhours (hai paura del buio, germi), C.S.I (try " tabula rasa elettrificata"), Teatri degli orrori, Timoria (try "viaggio senza vento" or "2020 speedball"), Verdena ( il suicidio del samurai, requiem), Karma, Punkreas ( a punk band obviously), and many many others.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks, yes, I also listen to rock, so I may do a video on Rock in Italy someday.

[@lorenzbeea]

My suggestion is: spite extreme wing..."vltra" is their masterpiece imo but "non ducor, duco" is hard not to mention too

[@lorenzbeea]

If ennio morricone played BM he would sound like them

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks for the suggestion I will keep it in mind if I do a future video

[@ΓιωργοςΤσιολάκης-ε7υ]

Check out Time Machine, one of the best prog metal bands out of Italy.

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks

[@Greyawk89]

Folkstone! They sing mostly in italian, so if you're not familiar with the language you'll miss a big part of their music, but you have to listen to them! Plus I can say also A Pale December, A Repit, Demonia Mundi, Flamen, Gates of Doom, Intus Mortem, Kult, Kurgaal, LVA... but these are black metal bands Cheers!

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Yes thanks for the recommendations. I don't mind if the lyrics are in Italian. I can understand it a little bit.

[@chandro7780]

... suggest again Genus Ordinis Dei, Laetitia in Holocaust, Vision Divine

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks. I'll keep them in mind.

[@MuseoDelBlackMetalItaliano]

Great video! If interested in Italian black metal pop to our channel to take a look 😊

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks. I'll check it out.

[@robhunter7294]

Furor Gallico…

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Thanks

[@brunopinheiro1632]

Mob metal😂

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

LOL