Those Italians and their music are very astonishing, far from the clichés, their second album "Two Of A Kind" (2010) received great reviews and was already impressive, indeed quite surprising both by his assumed influences but also by the way to stand out of this one and clearly enhanced by the fact that it was disparate from the early preconceived scheme, adding some new colors and lots of heterogenic ingredients to the original recipe.

Indeed, their main influence is early ROYAL HUNT, well, I think it's quite obvious ("Winner For A Day" / " Perseverance") and the inspiration distinctly, is coming from the cold lands of Scandinavia with many Symphonic orchestrations (amazing Cello on "Just Before  The Dawn") and many layers of backing vocals choir ("Naked Eye"), but in the same time they managed to improve this strongly impersonated style by increasing their spectrum with some new highly promising elements to the keyboards driven Neo-classical Rock like this incredible fusion lead guitar playing mostly in a unexpected Jazz Phrygian mode instead of the regular minor harmonic scales, in other words: it's damn cool and musically uplifting.

The dexterity of the musicians and the ability to move between those antagonistic concepts with a natural ease and a strong feel , is clearly exultant and very refreshing even fascinating at a point that finally the music of the band sounds very original and addictive ("Unbreakable"), revealing an unexpected creativity. Built around a trio of talented players, the band chose to use a bunch of vocalist instead of using exclusively the voice of touring singer Jacopo di Domenico.

After SILENT VOICES from Finland with their new "Reveal The Change" last month, STAMINA does the same trick: using various lead singer in order to replace the vacancy of Mr. Francesco Neretti at the frontman helm.

The list of the recording  guest singers is exciting , featuring the Swedish revelation Nils Molin (DYNAZTY), Maria McTurk (ROYAL HUNT), ex-Lead Singer Giorgio Adamo and the usual suspect Göran Edman (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen / ex-GLORY / ex-SPACE ODYSSEY). The distinctive voice of ex-RISING FORCE's extraordinary singer is working perfectly on the second track "Breaking Another String", which with the opening song "Higher" (featuring Nils Molin) sets the mood in the excellency for the whole magical album but each nmber is another essential piece to this "all killers, no filler" album.

Maybe the first overwhelming album for 2014, get ready for the silver platter release in January 17th.