Sweet Oblivion is progressive rock project --not a band--featuring American singer and songwriter Geoff Tate (ex: Queensryche) and Italian guitarist and bassist Simone Mularoni, keyboardist Emanuele Casali (both of veteran Italian progressive metal group DGM) and session drummer Paolo Caridi. Their sweeping, clamorous yet polished sound, bridges the opulent, hooky melodic metal of Tate's former band and the odd-metered cadences, dynamic shifts and instrumental pyrotechnics of DGM.
The Frontiers Music label tasked Mularoni with writing music in the vintage Queensryche vein. H...