Founded in UK in 2009,
CalatrilloZ quintet offers much more than just heavy metal music.
Their songs are composed around a tale entitled The
Marionette's Theatre. Their
live performances include special outfits, make up and stage design
as well.
The CalatrilloZ'
line-up consists of Zahyin (Mr. Z), Mobius (bass), Count Viktor
(guitar), Azriel
(guitar) and
Mattias (drums). Diverse
musical inspirations such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Rush or
Tool enrich their music with many flavors.
With the newest track, "A
Glimpse At A Fool's Destiny",
CalatrilloZ
prove they're extremely talented and well educated musicians. Not
only do they play instruments very well but also write professional
metal opera compositions.
The song
describes a
one way trip to Hell, where an evil boy named Johnny is
to suffer
eternally due to the wrong
choices he had made, as explained in
a
verse: "Hell
is a place we all go / If you
walk on the wrong side / Forever
you shall remain (…) And now that you’ve seen where this path may
lead you / Are you ready to choose between right or left?"
If you read between the lines, a bit of politics may be at
play here,
as well. Johnny is one of many bad people to share the
punishment along with "backstabbers,
thieves, murderers, greed pigs, rapists",
as listed in the song.
The overall
dynamics brought by a fast paced mix of drums, guitars and bass are
accented with Zahyin’s
high
voice. You'll hear many spots where his full vocal
scale is
exposed. The tempo
slows down or speeds up where necessary throughout the composition,
creating a
specific, tense atmosphere. Various well-matched arrangements are
brilliantly connected through smooth bridges. They
easily manage to keep
one's mind continuously occupied with every new part of the track.
The mood is definitely
epic,
thanks to diverse and uplifting instrumental
motifs.
It's
a complex symphonic composition, where metal & progressive rock
influences are splashed with abstract art. To me, this song is
begging for a music video. It could be a production in the vein of
David Lynch’s (or Marilyn Manson’s) video work - based on
contrasts, absurd, horror, irony and distorted reality. I can see a
circus arena rather than a opera hall, filled with opulent
decorations, uncanny items, memorable outfits and lively supernatural
characters - all wrapped in fiery colors mixed with sepia or black.
The band themselves surely have a best visual concept for this on
their minds.
Whether or not Jesus
Christ Superstar is the most famous
work that kind, the next piece about Lucifer may become even more
successful with CalatrilloZ'
involvement.
(Katarzyna 'NINa' Górnisiewicz, Fabryka Music
Magazine, January 28th, 2014. Proofreading: Mike 'Vesper'
Dziewoński)
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Reviewed by Fabryka Music Magazine