01	Tre Scarlatte Stille...						01:29
	02	Invisible Drops						07:12
	03	Per Aspera Ad Astra						03:30
	04	Chemical Nature Of Rubedo						06:15
	05	Stasi						06:11
	06	Ametistia						07:37
	07	...Di Lagrima'ntica						01:12
	08	Esse"S"						05:02
	09	A Venere						08:04

DreamCell 11 Entertainment, a division of Code666. (c)&(p) 2003 Code666 (p) 2003 CD-MAXIMUM


D I S M A L

Rubino Liquido -Three scarlet drops...-


Tracklisting:

first drop - Nigredo
I tre scarlatte stille…
II invisible drops (or Lux atque Tenebra)
III per Aspera ad Astra
IV chemical nature of Rubedo

second drop - Vanitis
V Stasi
VI Ametistia
VII … di lagrima'ntica (a melody from the past)
VIII esse "S"

third drop - Dionisiaca
a a Venere (new version)


Line-Up:

Dismal is:

Bradac (keyboards, synths, piano, programming & rhythm guitar)
Afelio (voices of howl, dismallian guitars)
Ae (female vocals)

SESSION MUSICIANS:
Frater Alchemoth Katharian (bass)
Alessandro Verando (lead guitar)

Orchestra directed by Angelo Corvino
The Orchestra:
Violins: Angelo Corvino, Walter Matacera, Giulia S., Nicolas P., Bruno Meyer
Violas: Alessandro Cipolletta, Anja Haben, Roberto Laiolo, Jenny
Cellos: Alfredo Giarbella, Federico T., Giulia T.




The path of DISMAL…
The jewel DISMAL was created back in June 1995, nearby Turin, when Bradac and Parsifal joined to the call of the Earth, gradually becoming one thing with it while cultivating in an inseparable way their art and spirit. The passion and the big efforts result in a new decadent artistic experience, deeply rooted in both medieval and classic music, which soon becomes the fruit of both the visions and the sensations of their sublimation.

The first period is dedicated to the experience and the maturation, and the curtain opens in October '96 with the demotape "Our Sad Saga", which is quite immediately re-issued on CD by Naumana Prodisc, a new-born label from Turin.

Pagan Moon Records shows soon a big interest in this demotape and, after signing the band, releases DISMAL's debut CD "Fiaba Lacrimevole - Like A Red Bleeding Rose In A Glacial Desert"… This new piece of art salutes the arrival of Margan inside the band, for which she releases the female vocals and the spoken parts. The 'primal cell' for the new chapter of the Saga is then completed.
The album is a fairy drama divided in three acts, based on symbolism and metaphors (referred to the introspective experience) which constitute the prosecution of the Saga told on the previous releases. The theatrical part, a basic part of the 'dismalian art', is now more intense than before and the musician becomes actor in this fairy Saga, which tells about his spiritual walk. The music on this album is an epic and obscure doom-gothic, soaked with an enchanted realism and glacial apparitions.

In 2001, after a long pause of 3 years, Parsifal changes his ritual name into Afelio and the new singer Ae replaces Margan, consolidating in an important way the art of DISMAL. This new line-up release the new petal "Dionisiaca", which is licensed by the professional Beyond…prod, prosecuting the walk interrupted 3 years before.

The new opus shows a further deep maturation of the style, and it is also a kind of introduction for what soon will be a pure flow of "Rubino Liquido - Three scarlet drops…"

"Dionisiaca", after only 4 months, sold all the 1000 copies of the limited edition and becomes sold-out, thanks to the positive responses coming from many European nations. (Rock Hard 8/10, GRIND ZONE 5/5, Vinil mag. 9.5/10, Metal Shock 9/10, RUMORE: Fascinating in its visionary and archaic Gothic perspective. Actually curious and stimulating… Elegy mag: Un mot: SUPERBE! D-SIDE Un genre a part, peu pratique mais tellment novateur. Un agreable surprise. ...qui vous lasse sogneur quand le disque s'acheve. Ecc..)

In September 2002 DISMAL sign a new deal with DreamCell 11 Entertainment.

In October they enter the studio to record "Rubino Liquido -Three Scarlet Drops…" with a budget of 40 days at Gulp! Studios (one of the best studios in Turin) and the support of a real orchestra of 12 elements.
The responses given after the studio-report (December 2002) have been really positive:

"Finally something new and innovative in the music market, hard to label; one can talk about a gothic sound, progressive and dark, but also romantic and soaked in a fitful theatrical component.
It has a great impact and it is full of touchable sensations… It seems like you're diving into a fascinating dream…" Marco Calliari (producer of the album)

"An album without any subsidence or low points, hard to decipher after only one listening, which is also the reason why it is so damn intriguing. Roberto Filippozzi, Rock Hard (Italy)


"…there is also a great, deep and full-bodied voice by Afelio, which gives shape to spectacular plots with Ae's divine voice. The music makes the rest… The idea of using a real orchestra instead of cold samples is absolutely great. The melodies are amazing and really entangled, the progressive parts are well-structured and the changes of tempos & atmospheres are often unexpected and surprising. A melancholic piano is often present with its dreaming notes, in order to make the entire album even more fairy and involving…" Matma, Blackmetalonline.com

concepts of synthesis:

three scarlet drops of elisir
dive into the goblet
in a syrup of dull blue…

The bleeding Rose that once sprouted in the ices is now weeping three scarlet drops, which represent the three chapters of the new album "Rubino Liquido". It is a triptych of metaphors which are even more intense and ambiguous than the previous ones. It leads to the most distant and glacial regions of the mind and describes, through a deep lexical and musical research, the wanderings and transmutations of the transcending 'I'.

· The second long-awaited full-length album by DISMAL: a decadent masterpiece of gothic purity!
· Recorded at Gulp! Studios with the producer Marco Calliari, previously know for his job with the pop band Subsonica.
· Recorded with the support of a real orchestra of 12 elements.
· Luxury digipack package with an amazing concept artwork which recalls the atmospheres of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece "Eyes Wide Shut".
· The album contains an incredible new version of "A Venere" (one of the best moment from the "Dionisiaca" miniCD).
· The band will finally play also live (for the first time ever!) to promote the new songs.

Discography:
-cd "Our Sad Saga" - Naumana Prodisc - 1996 (re-issue of the demotape on CD)
-cd "Fiaba Lacrimevole" - Pagan Moon - 1998
-mcd digi "Dionisiaca" - Beyond…prod - 2001
-cd Digi "Rubino Liquido - Three Scarlet Drops…" - DreamCell 11 Entertainment - 28 March 2003

Band contact: www.dismal.it - bradac@dismal.it Country: Italy



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Artist: DISMAL
Title: Rubino Liquido - three scarlet drops:
Format: CD
Label: DreamCell 11/Code666
Distributor: Audioglobe

Whew... I'm having a hard time reviewing this. Dismal are an Italian symphonic goth-metal trio formed by Bradac (keyboards, synths, piano, programming and rhythm guitar), Afelio (voices of howl, dismallian guitar - sic!) and Ae (female vocals), and highly acclaimed for their previous releases on Naumana, Pagan Moon and Beyond...prod, which got raving reviews all around. So let's immediately say this: if you like this genre, you'll probably want to buy "Rubino Liquido" and will find it a moving masterpiece of dark art. The musicianship and production is obviously hyper-professional and crystal-clear. Songs are complex and crafted, etc. But. I can't avoid writing it: I hate this kind of metal - it sums up any negative aspect I find in heavy metal music, and "professional"/technical HM in particular. I mean, Dismal play very well and all, they're accompanied by an orchestra, etc., but everything sounds totally cold to me. Clean male vocals and high, ethereal female ones become tedious after a while and the "aggressive" parts just don't balance them. The drum machine sound is annoying, totally static and artificial in its slow patterns; one craves for human rhythms after minute 1. As for writing complex suites... the various movements often sound very disjointed to my ear, like patchworks. Using the artwork as a methaphore: Dismal provide fascinating images (taken from Kubrik's "Eyes wide shut"), but ruin them with a banal logo. I don't know... I'm a sucker for extreme metal, doom and orchestral music, but this just doesn't work for me.