RNC Music: DEVA

"WHEN METAL GOES OPERA..."

“Deva” took initially shape when opera singer Beatrice Palumbo (22 years old, singer who received her musical education by the Conservatory of Milan G. Verdi) met with Federico Salerno (26 years old, guitarist and composer) and Miriam Stallone (24 years old bass player). The idea was to create a brand new concept to combine female opera vocals with progressive metal. The first step soon after was to get into a studio and record 5 original tracks, followed by a few concerts as well as festivals and contests, further to new compositions and the research of a proper line up; this is when keyboards start to be featured on some of the songs by keyboardist Marco Castiglione, who officially enters the band’s line up along with drummer Thomas D’Alba, to complete what is up to date Deva’s line up. The band has now recorded the first full-length album: “Between Life And Dreams”, which was entirely produced by the band. The recording were completed at the end of 2009, mixed by Lorenzo Ardoni (SteelNight Studios) and mastered by Alberto Cutolo (Massive Arts, Milan) “Between Life And Dreams” is ready for life. The artistic target is quite ambitious: combining the aggressive dynamics of metal with the stratified arrangements of progressive and a diverse melody line, which could take the tracks to be emotionally involving and accessible to even those completely alien to the genre. The target of this product could be split into two different categories: on one side the faithful listeners of prog metal (from Dream Theater to Nightwish), on the other side those who appraise female vocals, both opera and modern. In principle, the composing direction of “Between Life And Dreams” and the aesthetic taste of the band leads the project to be a vanguard, compared to the latest rock and metal trends, but, even further, the peculiar care of the band towards the classical music polish, set Deva to the borders of several musical genres. There is an attempt to detach from sub-genres of metal, which have also got inspiration from classical sources, even through female vocals with an opera base. Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean disrespect for these sub genres, but an experimental form or the introduction to a new wider genre that could gather all this sub-genres (gothic, epic and symphonic especially) and lead them back to the roots of progressive. This is also highlighted by Beatrice’s vocals, which allows the band to distinguish from other bands with a similar line up. “Between life and dreams” is available in Italy since mid April on RNC Music / Orion’s Belt Records, distributed by Self. Since then, several rave reviews have appeared on webzines and magazines in UK, Holland, Greece, Brazil, Mexico, France, Uruguay, Russia, Denmark, Poland, Australia, USA and most of them pointed out the peculiarity of this band and the attempt to bring something new to both progressive and gothic. “Between life and dreams” has recently been licensed to massive Russian label “Soyuz Music” for Russia, Ukraine and CIS and will be distributed in the UK through Ravenheart / Plastic Head. Negotiations are on with several more labels in other territories. In 2011 the record will be released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by AhhA / black bone Records.

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LABEL:

• Italy:
RNC Music / Orion's Belt Records

• UK and Ireland:
Ravenheart Music / Plastic Head

• Russia, Ukraine and CIS:
Soyuz Music

• Germany, Austria and Switzerland:
AhhA / black bone RECORDS

• Finland:
AXR Music Oy

• South Korea and Japan:

Secretion Music

MANAGEMENT:

• RNC Music

BOOKING:

• RNC Booking