METAL EXPRESS RADIO:
"The new kingdom is one of the best prog metal releases heard in many years, and might well be the finest debut album since Dream theaters' When dream and day unite...Quite possibly the new heirs to the prog metal crown. Simply awesome."
MICK BURGESS......
PROGGNOSIS:
"This band is exceptional, and gets my highest recommendation, this is one of those bands that offers enough in musical quantity to appeal to fans of prgmetal, progrock, fusion, etc. They're simply that good."
MJ BRADY......
ROCK-HARD MAGAZINE:
"In a style where it's hard to succeed in beeing different from the other bands, Venturia manages to do it definitely with this great first album..."
STEPHANE AUZILLEAU......
VONGOOBER:
"...Venturia appears to have all the necessary skills to be the next big thing in progmetal."
NEAL WOODAL......
FIREWORKS MAGAZINE:
"...Unpredictible and refreshingly different, this is heavy one minute and surprisingly catchy the next.The future of metal indeed!"
NICK HINTON......
VENTURIA was formed in 2000 by French guitarist CHARLY SAHONA and drummer DIEGO RAPACCHIETTI, who had already made a name for himself through his great playing with artists like Zero, Paganini and BPM.
Charly had previously worked with various French artists and participated on the Shawn Lane tribute record "Shawn Lane Remembered", released on Lion Music.
Bass player THOMAS JAMES later joined the band and added his versatile talents to VENTURIA's music.
Male vocalist MARC FERREIRA is a solo artist from New York who shares vocal lines with VENTURIA's female vocalist LYDIE ROBIN.
The pop/rock-like singing of Marc contrasts with the pure, clean and sensual female voice of Lydie Robin, creating a fantastic blend of aggressive and melodic vocal duet lines.
To complete the line-up, Kevin Codfert (voted best keyboardist of the year 2004 for the magazine "Castle of Pagan" for his playing with the band Adagio) was invited to share the guitar/keyboards parts with Charly on the record. Kevin appears as a guest artist in VENTURIA.
The band began recording the debut album, "The New Kingdom", in 2004; partly at Artsonik studios in Switzerland with Carryl Montini as producer and partly at X-fade studios in France under the guiding eyes of Kevin Codfert, who also mixed the album.
The mastering of the album took place at House Of Audio in Germany by Jurgen Lusky, and was finalized in August 2005.
In late 2005 VENTURIA signed a management deal with Danish based metal agency Intromental, and shortly afterwards a deal with Lion Music for the release of "The New Kingdom" was in place, with a release date set for April 21st 2006.
VENTURIA's music is a mix of metal, clean pop-melodies, technical progressive rock and high virtuosity.
There's something for everyone on this disc, no matter if you're a novice to the metal genre or a highly skilled musician yourself.
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