RIVERSIDE

Live ID. INSIDEOUTMUSIC

CHRIS ROBERTS

Polish prog metallers loosen up on fourth live album of their 23-year career. When resilient Riverside released their eighth studio album ID.Entity in 2023, it served not just to demonstrate their ongoing ability to make their songs stride and soar, but as proof that they were survivors. The death of guitarist Piotr Grudziński in 2016 had naturally unsettled them, but the river has kept on flowing, with two albums since and Maciej Meller now a full member. Vocalist/bassist Mariusz Duda has simultaneously worked through some feelings, notably concerning lockdown-compounded claustrophobia, on his electronica-based solo records and Lunatic Soul project. They’ve let go of a degree of preciousness. Live ID makes sense as a kind of catharsis; a celebration – however dark the music’s themes – that the Polish band are…

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Prog Italia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 157

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