The Shiver – A New Horizon

Releasedate: 2009; Label: Reality Entertainment
By: Lara Cappelli

The Shiver is an Italian Rock band formed in 2005 by Federica “Faith” Sciamanna, singer and composer of the band.

What you find in A New Horizon is mainly Rock beating melodies with seesawing atmospheres between Dark and Metal music. The best of the album is hearable in the beginning, leading off with In Obscurity and Crashing Down which are maybe the songs that I appreciated the most having pretty catchy melodies, which at some point sound terribly alike though. After that it all lacks of originality, it seems that The Shiver recycles the same ideas and that makes you reconsider a bit the fact of not being listening to the same song all over again. Additionally, the band tries to give something extra to the listening throwing in some random male screams which actually have nothing to do with what you listen, but appear as just an almost obligated cliché to be put into music of this kind. The Shiver surely made an effort to come up with something different, as to be heard in calm and delicate ballads like Through This Cold Water. That is pretty appreciable, but all in all the album isn’t such a new horizon as one would expect from the title.

Links:
The Shiver MySpace