As you can guess from the artwork of «Devotion Materialize», Emiliano Sicilia is most likely to please instrumentalists, guitar teachers and all those that prefer structural specialties over impact and catchiness. To be honest and to make it short, talented musicians as Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Joey Taffola, Joe Satriani, Tony Mac Alpine or Paul Gilbert (just to name a few, they are so numerous) already bored me to death some twenty years ago with their musical masturbation. I have yet to say that «Devotion Materialize» is a very eclectic album with songs radically different from what I was expecting from such a musician. Each song has its own rule, its own universe really different from all the other ones. You encounter traditional boring stuff such as «Cyber Room» but you shall also discover almost country death metal hymns as «Splatter On A Bluegrass», more rock ‘n’ roll orientated songs or even jazzy and flamenco works. «Devotion Materialize» is above all an album written and recorded by a guitar-hero but that does not denigrate in any way the obvious quality of the music created here. How this guy manages to combine so many different styles in one song simply beats me. Great stuff.
Georges

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