ALEPH - IN TENEBRA - FUEL 
A mishmash of styles mostly converging around progressive, gothic and the noisy. Aleph has no qualms about being original, but the dissonant Italians are a long way from winning praise from this, or any serious metal, corner (naturally, the 8/10s will flow on free promo hungry websites). In Tenebra harbours a certain amount of interesting lyrics, but with the music flying, here, there and everywhere and the keyboards and pianos present there is little to like. The band takes Dream Theater, inserts the minimum number of requisite heavy riffs and lets loose a barrage of songs not exactly designed to do anything other than impress a certain jazzy ability... capability to churn.
Aleph needs to drop the pretence of being metal, streamline its offering, get a job at a night club playing jazz and fulfil its fantasies on that stage. - Ali “The Metallian”
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