According to the official home page of Emiliano is the craziest Italian guitar player!! I have to admit all signals seem to confirm this. On the cd cover Emiliano is eating his guitar, but well, there are more artists with weird pictures on their covers. But when I heard the album for the first time I was totally surprised: what was this supposed to be? Totally browbeaten but very curious I pressed the replay button. Listening to the songs again I heard partly instrumental songs with a lot of influences from quite a lot of different areas all around the world (flamenco, dance, tango, country and western). The result is an album with nine songs that sound almost unrealistic but at the same time ingenious.

’Cyber Room’ is a wink to Steve Vai in respect to the special effects, the up-tempo parts and the fast guitar playing. ‘Splatter on a Bluegrass’ is without any doubt one of the most unusual songs I have ever heard; from Eruption (Eddy Van Halen) to flamenco with a metal voice, followed by country and Western and ending with tango-music (with an accordion).

Quite strange and weird but amazing!! ‘The New Reality Suit’ is a song that continues for more than ten minutes with a lot of dance-influences. ‘The Green Mirror’ opens with new-age music, followed by great guitar solos, heavy riffs and a (hardcore) dance rhythm. You have to try this song with the headphone on and see what it is going to do with you (Whoa). ‘Thermodynamic Hypothesis’ is the most ordinary metal instrumental song of the album with a lot a superb solos.

If you like metal that differs from the usual, it is absolutely worth listening to Devotion Materialize. You just need the guts to do so, Emiliano Sicilia challenges you.