Novembre

One of Italy's most eclectic, prolific yet relatively obscure heavy metal outfits, Rome's Novembre is helmed by the Orlando brothers -- vocalist/guitarist Carmelo and drummer Giuseppe -- who joined an existing death metal band named Catacomb in the early ‘90s, and, by 1994, had imposed their wills upon it, and embraced more commercial progressive and gothic elements in their songs. Several albums followed, including Wish I Could Dream It Again… (1994), Arte Novecento (1996), Classica (1999), Novembrine Waltz (2001), and Dreams d'Azur (2002), which was in fact a re-recording of...