Temple of Venus are back. From their musical magical hat, they get out a promo CD with 8 songs that will be their "after" Endless?, CD we from The Holy Hour appreciated a lot. 
The new songs of this band from Bologna stands out a costant increasing of their capabilities in composing, a renwed approach with more open and shining sounds, a better adapt lyrics/music and an audio result superior in quality to the previuos works. Piero Lonardo & co. are becoming a band always more, tending to belie the people they called them 80's nostalgic and honestly keep on making music from nearly 20 years without losing dignity and coherence in order to obtain that "something more" they rightly deserve. When listening you can take a fascinating trip between past and future, as they are able to give new blood to the dark-wave genre , suggesting as only the founder bands of this movement could have done.
So they're here again, proposing theri music and giving us emotions until somebody will finally promote them as to transform those wonderful “exercises of style" in larger scale music, gratifying their work at last. We are waiting confident.
HIDEAWAY: It's the opening song of this new demo, immediately exhalting the approach to brighter sounds and a costant professional and creative growth . You can hear it by the recordings, by the strumental liasons, even by the more present voice, lead character of a great musical context. Remarkable are the keyboards and the hammering drum in the final.
FIRE IN MY HEART: The band has showed us in their previous works that they're very able with the dreaming and melancholic moods but, when listening to "Fire in my heart", I understand that their skill and sensibility take them to prepare real musical gems which stimulate our intimate and hidden side. This song cannot fail to let us fly high and direct the glance towards horizons distant from all the physical . 
TELL ME EVERYTHING: "Tell me everything" maybe is the best song of the demo, as it contains alle the faces distinctive of the band. Verses, inciso, music and vocals chain themselves perfectly, pouring out a myriad of emotions that surround us in the listening. A real giant steps by the band that really shows great skill in composing and musical texture. Great dark-wave guitars.
DON’T BIND UP MY TIME: The simple complexity of the song make the context of this track pleasnt and melancholic at the same time. The guitaristic liasons and the backing synthetisers are honourably accompanying Piero Lonardo voice, who shows himself a good performer of its lyrics.UNWANTED: Unwanted, electronic and introspective, remind us the sound dear to Martin Gore and his Depeche Mode. Its atmospheres catch the listener and let you fly on the wings of your thoughts, caressed by a prefect musical performance form the band and to the warm and soft voice that gently whispers the lyrics. Good the drum programming and very good the general balance that don't mix up themselves, making the sound clean. These are the Temple of Venus for the great occasions. 
YOUR NEW TOY: This track take the band to the sounds of their first albums where thery rfere more strongly to the punk and new wave. The members of the band have surely enjoyed this sound, celebrating with their willing and perseverance as a capital part of their musical taste.
#26: Hypnotic and suggestive, this song full of typical “dark style” patterns give to the demo the right approach to mostly fit into the band most preferred attitudes. It is a song that estabilish an effective point of return to a more interior and intimate way in making music, as it suddendly set a violent distance to the rest of the CD that reminds me in some way the surprise effect of “Hunter and the Hunted” in a fantastic and lighter context as Simple Minds' “New gold dream” . Remarkable are the effect of the guitar that gives an increaing emotional appeal to the song.
WELCOME TO MY MADNESS: "#26" ideal consecution, the last track act as a finale, resuming and regrouping the lyrical and melodic context offered by the Temple of Venus. The wondeful thing, when using a song like this one to salute the listener, lies in the melancholic musical satisfaction that leave us in the after. - Michele Perrella " 
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