(Heavy prog) Zion - 9P - Nove Pianeti(Nine Planets) - 2014, MP3, 320 kbps

Zion biography
Hailing from Naples, Italy, ZION were first formed in 2000 by school mates Francesco Cimminiello (bass guitar) and Domenico Sepe (guitars and vocals); while Marco Lori (drums) was recruited through a classified ad. The following year, the band recorded their first demo, "The Voice of the Cool Wind", whose predominantly heavy rock sound already showed some prog influences.
In January 2002, a second guitarist, Marco La Russa (a fan of Seventies hard rock), was added to the line-up in order to help Sepe in his dual role during the band's live performances. A few months later, Sepe moved to Rome and left the band, to be replaced by two fellow students of La Russa, brothers Costantino (vocals) and Luca Casale (keyboards). ZION then engaged in a busy round of touring, and in 2004 recorded their second demo, "Metamorphosis". At the end of the year, however, when both the Casale brothers and drummer Marco Lori left the band, the remaining members came close to dissolving the band altogether.
In 2005, founding member Francesco Cimminiello decided to give a definitely progressive slant to the band's sound. Their first CD, "The Three Hands", released in 2006, is a concept album written by Cimminiello and La Russa, recorded with new singer Vittorio Galdi, drummer Guglielmo Pinto, and guest keyboardist Carlo Castellano. With new drummer Andrea Cannata, who joined in 2008 after Pinto had left, ZION have started recording their new album, a concept titled "9P - Nove Pianeti", which for the first time will be entirely sung in Italian.

): In "9P - Nine planets "showed greater the need to say everything at once, the expressive urgency that characterizes many works, becoming a mixed blessing. It is no coincidence that the disc is born of a two-day live sessions in the studio, a speed that has helped in the creation of the band, as befits a passionate group really "independent", but rather the stylistic determined to pursue. Net of predictable narrative and musical considerations scan (nine planets for nine different pieces, then nine atmospheres and different climates), the Zion realize a disc that plays the gritty tradition with an eye to heavy prog rock and another to the typical vein melodic masters Orme, Banco and PFM, alternating passages full of groove suspension "space" to care Footprints "Felona e Sorona".

Line-up / Musicians
- Francesco Cimminiello / bass, moog, vocals
- Michele Boggia / organ, keyboards synthesizer
- Mauro D'Ambrosio / drums
- Vittorio Galdi / vocals, percussion