Release Date 25/09/2026
Format CD/Digital
Genre Heavy/Power Metal
Origin Italy
Ibridoma started in Italy in March 2001 as the brainchild of drummer Alessandro Morroni and singer Christian Bartolacci, and the two have led the band ever since. Winning first prize at the Rock Around The Road festival in 2004 got them writing original songs. The "Lady Of Darkness" EP came out in 2005 through a US distribution deal with Nightmare Records, and "Page 26" followed in 2007. It led to shared stages with Uli Jon Roth, Richie Kotzen, Theatres Des Vampires and Necrodeath. After supporting Blaze Bayley across Italy in 2009, the band released its self titled debut album in 2010.
A second album produced by M. E. Baskette came in 2012 and "Goodbye Nation" in 2014, with tours alongside Rhapsody Of Fire, Secret Sphere, Almah, Sabaton and Queensrÿche along the way. The fourth album in 2016 featured former Iron Maiden singers Paul Di'Anno and Blaze Bayley, followed by "City Of Ruins" in 2018 and "Norimberga 2.0" in 2022. Guitarist Andrea Marresi joined in 2024, completing a line up with Marco Vitali on lead and rhythm guitar and Leonardo Ciccarelli on bass.
"Sangue Innocente" is the band's seventh studio album, with ten tracks running a little over forty minutes. Guitars and rhythm section were tracked at Mauro Mancinelli's Ulag Zone Studio and vocals at Damiano Paoloni's Sound Distillery Recording Studio, with Mancinelli mixing and mastering at Ulag Zone. Gustavo Sazes paints the cover once more, a partnership alive since 2014. Two guests step in, Rhapsody Of Fire singer Giacomo Voli and Therion soprano Chiara Malvestiti. The lyrics switch between English and Italian, and titles like "Childhood Denied", "Sangue Innocente" and "A.I." point toward stolen youth, innocent blood and a present turning colder by the day.
Mancinelli hands the album a modern, meaty sound, with raw edge on the riffs of Vitali and Marresi, Ciccarelli's bass rumbling under Morroni's double kicks and Bartolacci's warm tenor riding on top. The master runs hot, and by "Sing In The Sky" the ears start begging for a pause. "Realize" and "The Gambler" charge through in under four minutes on galloping riffs and choruses that lodge in the head after a single spin. The title track proves Italian lyrics sit comfortably on heavy/power metal, its refrain soaring over rolling double bass.
"Occhi Vuoti" drags the tempo down into darker ground and stretches past five minutes with guitar solos that sing. Some chorus lines walk roads the band has walked since "Goodbye Nation", and the English lyrics of "A.I." skim the surface of a subject that deserved a deeper cut. The album closes on "Ho Dimenticato", a melancholic Italian song sung with a heavy heart, and its last chorus lingers long after the disc stops spinning.
|7.8
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