Giuda- Senza Paura, Senza Domani

I hadn't listened to this in a while, and I decided to dig it out when I realized I was wearing this shirt.  My first exposure to Giuda is when they they played here, and I hadn't heard them previously.  I was completely floored by them, though.  They were touring on their second album, Decadenza, which I still love.  Their set was full of a lot of dark, slow chugging and they never really sped up the pace while keeping a lot of momentum.  The guitar players would hold their guitars up vertically over their heads in some of the heaviest parts.  All in all, it was really cool.

Some time after that, probably a couple of years, this record came out, and I ordered it right away.  It came on a cool yellowish and green splatter, and had only 5 songs on it.  I wasn't totally in love with it when I first heard it.  Listening to it now, I'm not quite sure what made me think they were listening to too much Metallica when they wrote this.  It's got a couple of faster, or more upbeat parts or something compared to Decadenza.  I think it was that there were less of those stomping chuggy parts that I loved so much when I saw them that first time, and they added a little more melody, especially in the leads.  I also didn't like the vocals on this, any of the previous material, or live because they weren't the type of gutteral, deep vocals that I tend to prefer.  The singer has more of a hardcore style to his vocals.  I've come to accept how the vocals sound, and it's definitely not a dealbreaker for me.  The standout track is definitely the last one which takes up all of the B side- Siamo Demoni- We Are Demons.  True to Giuda form, they're not in a hurry to go anywhere with the song structure, but it's also not unnecessarily built-up either.  This track, along with the others, is well-constructed.

 There is definitely a strong metal influence to all the songs, but not excessively so.  All of this record exemplifies exactly what I want in my music- punks playing metal with a punk attitude. 

I could only find one track from the album on youtube, which is too bad, but I think that any of them would be a fair representation of the record.