Album Notes

ARCADIA - BIO


It was a very dark night of 1996 when two mentally insane mindfucked people decided to waste their own lives giving birth to a very, very violent creature: ARCADIA !!! Since then their life was completely dedicated to the band (and so, ruined!): after recruiting two other motherfuckers of their area, they started hitting the stage in Northern Italy and recorded their first demos. Not a long time passed and the first record deal came from NoBrain rec., Venice. "Synth", received a huge welcome by the fans and by the media which allowed the band to finally channel their cold fury and aggressive attitude into this record! Synth emphatized Arcadia as a perfect machine with the only target to nihil the listener, to let him feel the band's cold blades penetreting his flesh, leaving him trembling with fear, hid in a corner... In this cd the influences you can hear surely come from the first Fear Factory, Meshuggah and SYL. The band started playing in the most important venues, even supporting famous acts like Henry Rollins in his European tour! After selling their souls for that success, Arcadia were invited to the Sun and Steel Festival in Florida, to play with Obituary, Trivium, Body Count... The time came to find a more suitable line up: two other bastards pieces of shit with whom share emotions and will to kill. The first American tour started, making victims in the whole California to promote the brand new bleeding album "Fracture Concrete". The new album is as red as blood. Unlike "Synth" which was icelike cold, Fracture Concrete is full of passion to explode in outbursts of anger. The heart stops pumping blood, replacing it with acid and sweat. The album is led by instinct and not by useless plans. Back to the Italian homegrave, the band started decomposing other songs doomed to destroy and tear the fans !!! After a bunch of rotting dates in Italy and Europe, the Band went back to the Usa, this time to spread its sick word on the whole west coast !!! The American fans called the music played by the band: ITALIAN BASTARD CORE. Core, because the modern core influence is easily recognizable, bastard because its raw sound mixes and echoes lots of genres, Italian because... well, maybe you already know. Currently the four sons of a bitch are ready to promote the new album, "Cold Cold Bodies", playing EVERYWHERE (check the dates section to see when we are near you),as soon as the European tour starts!!! So... go on... and be a part of this braindead machine called Arcadia...

ARCADIA:
Dimytry,Cacao,Mike,Maledeo
Italian Bastard Core

www.myspace.com/arcadiabastardcore
www.arcadiacrew.com


SOME GERMAN REVIEWS:


HEAVY MAGAZIN (april 08)
by Jorg Schultz
"After a not very representative intro The Italian metal-core brigade Arcadia (living in Los Angeles), directly from the first track "She's Got a Knife" shows how a band like this should move. If on one hand they're direct in your teeth, on the other they're full of intricate melodies.
Here as also in "Kissing Cyanide" we see changes from the so called "call-and-response" passages to very strong musical accents. With "Coaguleted and Almost Forgotten" we also go a step on, while on "Ravens and Dove" we really touch the borderlines of the genre, but you know, this is the single.
This is a level you can hardly keep and sincerely I am impressed each time!
Vote= 10/10


HEAVY-METAL.DE (February 08)
by xxxxxxx

"does Europe come from America...or vice-versa?"

In February we finally received from Point Music/Valery Records this 13track release.
To your ears it sounds like good old cool metalcore...full of cliche'? Na,dudes,it's really really sharp-edged and very well structured.
With no pause, so groovy and hard at the same time!
Here we play with feeling,and you can hear it in any tone, but that's not hard to bear.
It's nowdays about a decade Arcadia is here and there on the scene. " Italian Bastard Core" these 4 guys named their sound.
And so it is.
This last album of the Italians, who actually chose Los Angeles as their base, is something you have to surely listen to. In any case.
Briefly:This is for those who love to take some risk and to pass over the same old standards. Because you don't find this every day.
I throw 8 bombs out of 10 for them!!


FFM-rock.de (February 08)
by xxxxxxxx

Okay,Okay, here we have an Italian band which was formed in the United States. And from there with their "Italian Bastard Core" they want to conquer the world. Even if I have to say their music is kinda difficult I have to admit one thing: it's fucking bastard! And this being bastard includes good ideas, good melodies and a good voice (or screaming, as you want) and other shit. Back to the band, these 4 Italians who in '98 recorded their first demo "Trust" with which they were already creating a personal sound. The response of the scene was very good and this brought them to sign for the label NoBrain, and one year later they released their debut album "Synth" and toured here and there in their country. After "Trip to the Sun", a first American tour followed, as a new album followed too: " Fracture Concrete". After the tour the band decided to settle in Los Angeles and after some years of hard work, here is the last album, "Cold Cold Bodies". Briefly, it's a very interesting album with very good metalcore songs like "She's got a Knife" (ehi what a punch!), "Kissing Cyanide", "Coagulated and Almost Forgotten", "Ravens and Doves" (the video of the song is included in the cd) and "Oxygen and a Very Good Pill". Those were just some example from an album which convinced me.