I
was a bit worried about the band splitting in half, but apparently both
Rhapsody of fire and Luca Turilli's Rhapsody are doing just fine. There's just
more Rhapsody in the world under two different titles and what's not to like
about that?
It's
an album that's epic and grand and has tons of choirs like all self-respecting
Rhapsody albums and I love that. Even though the main song writer is gone, the
style is still pretty much the same (maybe the die-hard fans can tell the
differences, but as a casual fan I can't. I guess it's more on the side of
symphonic then on the side of power, but this is something that started before
Luca left). Fabio is great as always, I
love his voice and it fits the feel of the music perfectly. He's definitely the
best thing that Rhapsody of fire kept (I have to say that Luca Turilli found a
marvellous replacement for Fabio, though, the thing that stayed with me the most
after listening to Ascending to infinity
was how insanely good Alessandro Conti is).
