HELFIR “The Human Defeat” /CD/

The second full-length studio album by Italian multi-instrumentalist Luca Mazzotta's Dark Rock/Gothic Metal solo project.
As a solo project, Mazzotta took it upon himself to not only compose everything, but also play it on the album. Which makes this an interesting journey into the mind of a guitarist and a coherent album with a strong identity. Mazzotta’s six-string experience with a Prog Death Metal band surfaces in beautiful and dark passages. Lending themselves to his intuitive arpeggios. While the chords wouldn’t be out of place on a Doom album, their development from guitar to synth and from arpeggio to lick benefit from the Gothic atmosphere. 
A combination of acoustic Dark Rock melodies and gloomy Gothic Metal sounds. “The Human Defeat” music encourages you to fall into Helfir’s melancholic world because the mood is either decadent and detached, and you can easily get lost in the hypnotic and passionate music of this band. It will stand at the deep heart of each listener with alienating atmospheres in the best Antimatter, Anathema and Porcupine Tree tradition.
My Kingdom Music, 2017 (echo122). Made in Italy. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Time In Our Minds 4:07
2. Light 4:33
3. Tide 4:47
4. Protest Me 4:33
5. Chant D'Automne 3:28
6. Mechanical God 3:42
7. Climax 2.0 7:57
8. Golden Tongue 5:18
9. The Last Sun 6:42
10. Chant D'Automne (Instrumental Version) 3:27
Total playing time: 48:36 min.


Samples: https://helfir.bandcamp.com