Vision Divine - Stage of Consciousness

Release date: September 12th 2005
Label: Scarlet Records
Provided by: Scarlet Records
Website:
www.visiondivine.com
Style:
Melodic Power Metal

Rating: 91/100
Reviewed by:
Jřrgen Ditlev
Date:
December '05

DVD:
Format: DVD 9
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
Running time: App. 128 minutes.

This is the first DVD from one of Italy ’s finest Power Metal bands. “Stage of consciousness” was recorded at the Transilvania Club, in Reggio Emilia, Italy , with 250 to 300 devoted fans.

The band performs the entire “Stream of Consciousness” album, just like Fates Warning and Queensr˙che did with “A Pleasant Shade of Gray” and “Operation: Mindcrime”.

Vision Divine delivers a superb live performance, very tight and professional. It’s easy to see that most of the guys have been in the music business for a long time, with bands like Eldritch, Labyrinth, Wonderland and Seven Gates.

Especially lead singer Michele Luppi is delivering the goods. To those of you who are not familiar with the “Stream of Consciousness” album, the tracks to pick out are “La Vita Fugge”, “Through the Eyes of God”, “Shades” and “Out of the Maze” - those songs kill both live and on the regular CD.

The entire DVD is very professional done; pictures and sound are at a very high quality. As extra feature there are four live tracks from the first two Vision Divine CD’s and an alternate take of “The Secret of Life” plus photo gallery and Interviews with all members.

It’s great that “small” bands like Vision Divine gets the chance to make DVD’s, thumbs up to Scarlet Records. The first thing I will do tomorrow is to hunt down the new album from Vision Divine called “The Perfect Machine”.