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DGM: Endless
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DGM: Endless

Melodic Progressive Metal
5.0/5.0

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Words: Craig Hartranft
Added: 25.10.2024 | Released: 18.10.2024

Less than a year since their previous release, Life Italian metallers DGM return with their latest and twelfth studio album, Endless. It's the band first concept album, and also suggests more reference to classic progressive rock (such as Yes, Kansas, even Jethro Tull.) Their signature traditional progressive power is infused with nuances of violin, flute, and saxophone. More on this in a moment. Guitarist Simone Mularoni explains the album:

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"Endless is the band's first real concept album. And it's also the first DGM album that includes many more dynamic and acoustic moments than the past. If until now we have always pushed on the accelerator and on the power, this time we have chosen to include many more reflective moments, mixing the most classic progressive rock with parts that are typically in the DGM style."


As a concept album Endless chronicles one man's imaginative journey to understand the choices that shaped his life. Through vivid storytelling, the album explores the eternal question - how might life be different if I had taken another path? States the band: "Ultimately, Endless transcends one man's story through the universality of its concept. We all have moments where we wonder about the paths not traveled. By exploring the plurality of possibilities, this album encourages self-forgiveness and living fully in the journey ahead."

Returning to the songs, I believe a DGM fan, and any progressive rock/metal fan, will find Endless to be a excellent and entertaining musical adventure. Acoustic nods come immediately with Promises where acoustic guitar and flute add that classic prog flavor. Yet, quickly, with The Great Unknown and The Wake, DGM's fast and heavier prog power metal return. Solitude returns again to the softer acoustic influences, only to rise as majestic anthem with soaring guitar work.

Then we swing back to the progressive power metal with From Ashes and Final, both rather fast and heavy. The latter has a minor moderate breakdown in the middle but then erupts in speed with the guitar solo. Blank Pages is notable for its piano intro and outro in a steady anthem. The finale, ... Of Endless Echoes, at 14 minutes, is the album's magnum opus wherein the arrangement exposes the listener to juxtaposition of heavy progressive metal with softer segues with voice and guitar. Mularoni's exiting guitar so is epic. It's a great song.

All in all, and simply, DGM's Endless is an ambitious, intriguing, and entertaining adventure into their signature, yet also expanding, progressive power metal. Perhaps their best album to date? Yeah. It's that good. Quite recommended.



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The Take Away

DGM's Endless is an ambitious, intriguing, and entertaining adventure into their signature, yet also expanding, progressive power metal. Perhaps their best album to date? Yeah. It's that good. Quite recommended.

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