Album Notes

“Sex de humana natura”, Astarte Syriaca's new work, it's a concept album and it tells about a grotesque and violent story where child delinquency, loan-sharking, drug, exploitation of prostitution, laundering and political corruption are the six weapons used by the criminal enterprises to assure their power.
In this new work we find heavy metal riffs mixed with doom rhythmics and drum'n bass grooves, all melted with arpeggiators and synths inspirated by the electronic music, while the voice tells us a story using styles as melodic metal, rap and growl.
From several years Astarte Syriaca love to entrust the meaning of their music to different kind of artistic expressions: we can remember experiments like "Le stagioni di Astarte" or "Jesus Christ Superstar heavy metal opera" where the modern metal prog arrangement found more efficacy thanks to the introduction of theatrical elements inside the live shows.
This time, in addition to the cd, the band decided to produce also a short movie about the concept album itself. The short movie is directed by Lucio Basadonne and Massimo Acquaviva and is written by Barbara Alesse.
During the “Sex de humana natura” live show, the short movie is projected while the band is playing, so that songs and story are weaved together giving life to an enthralling plot.