I don’t think there has ever been too much talk about the Spite Extreme Wing, here on Metal Skunk. We do it now, because Not Dvcor, Dvco it’s technically their debut: it came out a couple of years earlier Magnificat, which however was a collection of demos with some additions. And for once I have to transform myself into Griffar, because I got to know Spite Extreme Wing precisely thanks to the demos, the first in the cassette and the second in the Cd-R, which I still keep as relics and which I reviewed in the paper Metal Shock with all the enthusiasm mentioned above the lines a nineteen year old can show; and I repeat the enthusiasm, even if now I would use very different words, but this is also the reason why a nineteen year old should generally limit himself to reading the reviews.
Compared to those demos, Not Dvcor, Dvco marks a very clear evolution. Their style finally begins to become personal, outlining the characteristics and boundaries of a sound that will then find its complete maturation with Beyondfrom 2008, their latest album.
The album has numerous merits, the most important of which is the strong personality, the courage in seeking one’s own musical path, that very recognizable style of Spite Extreme Wing which in the future someone will also try to imitate, obviously in vain. A black metal that here begins to free itself from the fixed stylistic features of Scandinavian influences and become more and more Mediterraneanalthough in a very different way from the sulphurous and pagan one historically associated with Italian or Greek black. The usually sustained rhythms that sometimes stop leaving space for long dreamlike parts, a sense of groove that incredibly does not scratch the magic, Argento’s screaming, the attention to detail in the guitar parts, but above all the insistent, exhibited, sought-after epicness at all costs and at all times. Not Dvcor, Dvco it was the motto of D’Annunzio’s Fiume legionaries, absolute individuals who shout: win!and it is also one of the best black albums ever released from our borders. The album was recorded in Forte Geremia, a nineteenth-century building in western Liguria, taking advantage of the reverberation of the stone and, not secondarily, the charm that a similar place could have on a musical group that retreated there to record.
Since its release this album has always received more than positive opinions, and it deserves them all. However, it could have given Spite Extreme Wing greater fame, even if only limited to the European extreme scene: I can’t think of too many black groups, especially of this level, who managed to create such a personal sound, so multifaceted and at the same time with so much shooting. Hearing Spite Extreme Wing’s songs live would be, among all other things, also a lot of fun. And moreover, if there is a musical genre in which the fascination for the period It may not cause you too many problems, that’s what black metal is all about. As mentioned, the last album is from 2008, and in my opinion it is also the best. Who knows, maybe one day. (barg)
