VIRTUAL SYMMETRY

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Virtual Symmetry SENSORY Prog metallers stick to their comfort zone. The fourth album from guitarist Valerio Villa’s Swiss-Italian quintet opens with a bang. Virtual Symmetry, the name of the band, the album and, in this instance, the opening track, is a big, bold prog metal workout, full of sweeping keyboards, Villa’s guitarhero flexes and the impassioned vocals of Marco Pastorino. The rest of the album never quite matches that initial high. Thereafter, there’s a tendency towards the formulaic in the song construction of tracks like Butterfly Effect and The Paradise Of Lies, with Mark Bravi’s tinkling piano giving way to Villa’s riffing and Pastorino’s fulltilt emoting. Technically, it’s beyond reproach, the sound situating them between the prog metal of Dream Theater and the symphonic metal of Kamelot, but it veers…

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