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Evaluation Reviews

• "True progressive, challenging, abstract, melodic and demanding that does not surrender easily to his listener. Instead it brings him to the edges in the insides of a music that leaves only freshness and originality to the lucky one that gave the album time and attention." 9/10 Metal Hammer - Greece

• "The first full length album of the band “Evaluation” came along , flattening everything that came across its path! Powerful, original, fresh and totally brilliant in every aspect…Unexpected present from a future mega-band!" 5/6 Metal Invader - Greece

• "Numerosi i momenti di interesse, con spunti methcore e heavy, a favore di una prova completa ed esaustiva sotto ogni punto di vista." 7,5/10 Rock Hard - Italy

• "Evaluation, an album you should have in your cd collection" MusicalNews.com - Italy

• "un ottimo lavoro, un debutto sulla lunga distanza per di piu, che, per il momento, merita di attivare i “sensori” dell’attenzione di tutti i sostenitori dell’alternative music e del cosiddetto crossover, e per il futuro potrebbe, con l’ulteriore incremento della maturita, consegnare al “genere” un gruppo davvero “superiore”." Eutk.net - Italy

• "Tra le migliori uscite tricolori in fatto di crossover metal, di quello fatto con personalita ed inventiva, seppur impostato con trademark ben precisi - MetalManiac - Italy

• "The more you listen to the album, the more you discover things to love about it. I think that they manage to make something different and to give us a very interesting proposal of modern, alternative rock/metal." Metalzone.gr - Greece

• "A truly original musical proposal: 15 tracks of alternative metal rich in the most varied influences and supported by good production." Undergroundzine - Italy

• "Wow! Three letters that describe this album. 9/10" heavyworlds.com - Italy

• "They have had the luxury of being able to open for rock gods like Deep Purple and got to assault 6000 people with their brillance and won over many more fans, we believe it wont be long until they are invited to the Ozz Fest as they deserve." JJFM - New Zealand

• "81db makes us meet metal on a different way. You fairly fast get waved in the sphere of the album. Nearly every track has some suprising aspect. This is an album I recommend to everyone that likes to take a step in the unknown and dare to meet another kind of metal. This is one of the best debut-albums I ever listened to." - Ashladan, Belgium. 9/10

• "A new idea of rock, son of Metallica and sirtaki....Evaluation, an album you should have in your cd collection." - Musicalnews.com - Italian webzine

• "81db, a band from Italy with a Greek guitarist, makes all the so called 'heavy' bands sound amateurish" - Esquire Magazine, Greece. 4/5

• "81db is one of the best new groups that I listened to these months and “Evaluation” deserves to exist in your album collection." - MetalHunter, 9.5/10

• "Tra le migliori uscite tricolori in fatto di crossover metal, di quello fatto con personalità ed inventiva, seppur impostato con trademark ben precisi" MetalManiac - Italy

• "Fantasy and creativity, don't leave any doubt and the intriguing mixture of progressive metal and alternative rock, devised by 81db, seems to offer the right chance to surprise even the lovers of the less conventional and stereotyped stylistic solutions. Leveraging on well constructed atmospheres and a basically neverending research for unpredictable sudden changes, the foursome reaffirm their potential; we eagerly look forward to a positive development in the short term, as 81db deserve respect." Michele Martini - Rock Hard (IT) - review of the promo EP - 8/10

• "Evaluation e un riuscito album che sprigiona fantasia e creativita, con un riuscito mix tra progressive metal, richiami grunge (piu Soundgarden che Pearl Jam) e qualche elemento nu metal (sopratutto in alcune parti ritmiche).....In mezzo a tante influenze, gli 81db riescono a plasmare una propria identita". RockSound magazine (IT)

• "Una delle poche autentiche novita della scena rock italiana attuale, e comunque qualcosa di decisamente originale" JAM magazine (IT)

• Kronic.it (webzine) - by Roberto Paviglianiti - (review for the 4 track - Promo EP)
"Orizzonti lontanissimi. In quattro brani dall’andamento deciso, gli 81db mettono in gioco il loro sapere musicale fatto di pesanti chitarre rock tendenti al metallo d’autore (Metallica, Tool) condite e inframmezzate da piccoli spot che si rifanno alla tradizione ellenica."

• Metalzone.gr (webzine) - by Vassilis Mazaris - (review for the 4 track - Promo EP)
"81DB is one of the bands who cannot be labeled, as it’s hard and unfair for this band, since they have many influances, while different hearings dominate."

• ondalternativa.it (webzine) - by Stefano "Brainstorm - (review for the 4 track - Promo EP)
"Gli 81db non sono l’ennesimo gruppo metal emergente. Ad una base di fondo riconducibile al metal moderno si aggiungono svariate influenze, creando un sound in parte fuori dai canoni classici."