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The Italian band SHINING FURY is about to release it's debut CD, and although the musicstyle is typical Italo Power Metal in the style of LABYRINTH and RHAPSODY, their first record is definitely a high quality album which will be loved by fans of faster melodic symphonic Power Metal with catchy singable choruses... I had an interview with leader Allessandro...
First of all, please
tell us all about your band SHINING FURY?
Well,
Shining Fury born two years ago, after Ross played with Athena
for "Twilight of Days" album; he wanted to create a
band for fast and melodic metal and he found me (Alessandro,
bass) and Tommy (guitar) as we played together in an Iron Maiden
cover band called Strange Illusion and in Nightmarish (kind of
prog band); with us, singer Francesco Neretti who played in
Athena, too and in a Deep Purple cover band (Profondo Porpora) .
After some times we recorded a 4-track promo and send it to some
labels... Metal Blade offer was the best one and we began to
built up material for our full-lenght. On writing we realized we
need another guitar in the band for solos and harmonies and to
make the sound heavier! So we get in the band Toniello and after
the songs were redy we enter the studio, where a great friend of
us played keyboards on the songs: Oleg Smirnoff (Eldritch, Death
ss, Vision Divine). We recorded the album at FP Recording studios
by Federico Pedichini (Freddy Delirio: Death ss, H.A.R.E.M.) and
we spent 4 months to do it! But we're very happy of the result.
Please
tell us all about your first CD...
I don't
know in what kind of specific genre you can put the album, I can
only say it's a metal one! There's great variety between the
songs, for example between "Net Love" and "Snake's
Game", or between "Speed of Life" and
"Declaration of a Cheat". Maybe it's a consequence of
our many influences (Blues, rock, funky). Anyway I think they
will be real bone-crashers in a live act! Lyrics are about
everyday life, no fantasy adventures or things like this,
"Last Sunrise" is about a jet-fighter pilot who drop
bombs on innocents, "Snake's Game" talks about the
exploiting of children, and so on. We try to talk about real
things, events that surround us every day but we don't (won't)
see them.
You
probably hear this question a lot, but are you related to Steve
Lukather (drummer Ross), because you also did a cover of a TOTO
song...
No, no relationship between Ross and Steve! We just did this
cover 'cause we like it; It's a funny experiment and exciting to
take a really "noble " song and turn it in a metal
song!
Anyway, you played with many
famous Italian bands through the years, please tell me more
Ross
Lukather began to play with Death ss in 1990 and released the
albums "Heavy Demons" and "Do What Thou
Wilt", then he entered Labyrinth for the support tour of
"Return to Heaven Denied" with Morby (who appears as
guest in our album) and then Athena for "Twilight of
Days" with Francesco Neretti. He's a very professional
drummer, and obviously, mad as a monkey! Francesco had only the
experience with Athena, and he had to carry a very great burden
being the new singer after Fabio Lione!
Which
bands influenced you?
Well, I
don't have a band as model, I play what pass in my mind; surely
the thousands of bands I've listened to give me the directories!
Maybe in an unconscious way I play as a band do, but I prefer
write songs my way. The bands I love more are Led Zeppelin, Iron
Maiden, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull... it's
difficult to have a model if you mix them!
How does
the future look like for SHINING FURY? Touring plans? More CDs?
I hope to
do a lot of tours and a lot of albums! Nothing is yet planned,
but I really hope to do many gigs and play in front of thousands
people!
Thanks for
answering the questions, anything to add for yourself?
Thank you
for the opportunity you give us, I hope you like the album, and
see you soon!