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Italian hard ’n’ heavy act
ANIMS
has released single/video
‘The Cherubims’
Anims are:
Elle Noir – lead & backing vocals
Francesco Di Nicola – guitars & bass
Paolo Caridi – drums
Sneakout Records & Burning Minds Music Group are glad to announce the release of ‘The Cherubims’, first single taken from ‘Good ‘n’ Evil’, the new album of the Italian hard ’n’ heavy band Anims.
The album is the result of intense work developed in the studio.
Francesco Di Nicola (Danger Zone, Crying Steel, Krell), author and co-author of the songs, plays both the bass guitars and guitars;
the arrangement and writing of the drum tracks are done by Paolo Caridi (Ellefson-Soto, Reb Beach, Geoff Tate, Michele Luppi), a professional with international experience with whom Francesco Di Nicola has already collaborated on the recent ‘Deserts’ album by Krell.
The voice is the warm and characterising one of Elle Noir, the winning element of the 2022 debut album ‘God is a Witness’.
The diffusion and intensity of the choruses, two pairs of rhythmic guitars that virtualize the presence of two guitarists and the processing of sound, are the elements that give the work a particularly rich setting.
‘Good ‘n’ Evil’ contains ‘Liar’ and ‘Satellite’, two unreleased songs from the time in which Francesco Di Nicola collaborated with Crying Steel in the early 90s:
a period without publications for the Bolognese group despite their constant presence in the metal scene.
The physical CD features one more track, not present on the digital version:
‘Victim Of Time’, the title track of the album with which Danger Zone officially debuted in 1984 and in whose lineup Francesco Di Nicola was present.
The lyrics of the album, mainly composed by Chiara Mencarelli and integrated by Francesco Di Nicola, co-producers of this album, are of profound spiritual inspiration.
As the title ‘Good ‘n’ Evil’ suggests, the common denominator is the contrast between good and evil and the elevation to victory of the former over the latter.
Biblical references are frequent and the reflection of a meeting place between man and man and between man and God are reoccurring.
‘Good ‘n’ Evil’, like the previous album, was also recorded at Pri Studio in Bologna, Italy;
Roberto Priori’s ability and the musical understanding shared with Francesco Di Nicola resulting from a forty-year friendship, are the ingredients that contributed to the creation of the exact sounds which were envisioned when composing the songs.
‘Good ‘n’ Evil’ is scheduled to be released on May 31st, 2024.
Italian hard ’n’ heavy band ANIMS
will release on the 29th of april
their cd ‘God Is A Witness’
TRACKLIST:
God Is A Witness
Freedom
Around Me
Live For Somebody
Boring Lovers
Bright Eyes
Look Who’s Back
The Dancers
He Says
Like Colours Of Flowers
LINE UP:
Elle Noir – Vocals
Elio Caia – Bass guitar
Francesco Di Nicola – Guitars
Diego Emiliani – Drums
“God Is A Witness”, self-released debut album of the Italian hard ’n’ heavy band Anims, led by former Danger Zone and Crying Steel guitarist Francesco Di Nicola, has been released on all
major digital platforms on August 6, 2021.
The band has now signed a brand new deal with Sneakout Records/Burning Minds Music Group for the release also in CD format, scheduled on April 29, 2022.
The album “God Is A Witness” came to life in an old-school way, with various face-to- face encounters in a music rehearsal room in Bologna, Italy.
The project started with the clear and precise intention of creating and recording an album containing ten tracks; ten songs that were clearly united by the same ‘hard ‘n’ heavy‘ influence, yet each with their own specific character.
The ten songs originated from the guitar riffs composed by Francesco Di Nicola (Danger Zone, Crying Steel), put together with the collaboration of bassist Elio Caia, drummer Diego Emiliani and singer Luca Bonzagni (Crying Steel), who proceeded to elaborate nine of the ten vocal melodic lines.
After the composing and arranging of the songs, as well as the recording of the ten arrangements, the singer, unable to continue the work for personal reasons, abandoned the project, inevitably leaving room for new evaluations, including that of the use of a voice that could offer a totally different and therefore absolutely unexpected twist to the band’s sound.
It was therefore decided that a classic hard/heavy metal voice was not what the band envisioned, so various specialized and experienced male voices were auditioned.
The group therefore decided to wait for the right opportunity, without necessarily rushing into the completion of the album.
Meanwhile, the tracks were recorded by Roberto Priori at “Pristudio” in Bologna.
During a work break to check the backing tracks and to listen to some tracks recorded in said studio, the opportunity arose to entrust the task of completing the album to Elle Noir, a singer who, by virtue of her own experience and singing versatility, subsequently accepted the challenge of steering towards a decidedly “hard” horizon as she had never done before.
The ten lyrics were written by Francesco Di Nicola, who, speaking from his own experiences, dreams, desires and fears, tried as much as possible to follow the previously composed melodies, composing the missing one (‘The Dancers’) and, with the collaboration of Elle Noir, completing, perfecting and adapting the singing parts to suit the new voice.
The overall result, fruit of the combined effort and common taste of the four musicians, yet inevitably characterized by the freshness, power and femininity of Elle Noir’s voice, subsequently inspired the name of the band.