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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter and founder
of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession. He died in 1918, thus
the peculiar band name of this Italian group of musicians. The two founders of
the band were active in a progressive death metal band between 1994 and 1999 but
never managed to sign a record deal before splitting up. In 1999 they began
writing new music together, now with a wide range of influences from modern goth/doom
bands like Anathema, Opeth, Edge Of Sanity and Katatonia as well as 80s wave
bands like The Cure, Depeche Mode, early U2 and even The Beatles. The final
result presents itself on this debut album of their's as a light version of
gothic rock with a depressive touch and orchestration by Novembre's Massimiliano
Pagliuso. His bandmate Giuseppe Orlando also performs some powerful and
passionate backing vocals on one of the songs ("We don't need no music").
Unfortunately the vocalist of Klimt 1918 has a voice far from the capacity of
Giuseppe Orlando. Musically these guys are doing their job very well but when
dwelling in this field of music you need to have a real front person and that is
what Klimg 1918 is lacking right now. Stand-out tracks: "We don't need no
music".
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