I stopped looking for clouds. I started breathing them.
“"LUNGS" isn't just an instrumental track. It's an invitation to pause and breathe. Ricky Guariento's new single is out Friday: discover the concept and pre-save.
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2025 Report (three days later, when everyone has already finished)
My 2025 report: music, blogging, AI, and cartoons. Not a list of accomplishments, but the result of having too much chaos in my head to sit still.
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Natus Est: Chronicle of an Experiment That Became an Album (Almost by Accident)
Natus Est is my Christmas Mass with a metal twist. 12 liturgical songs born from an experiment. The chronicle of a project that grew step by step.
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Physics, music, a granddaughter, and lots of young people who aren't lazy.
At the Liceo Marchesi concert, I saw the physics of sound become emotion. Proof that "lazy youth" doesn't exist when there's true passion.
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Three years under the skin.
Three years ago I played some notes and forgot them. Yesterday I found them again and already knew how they ended. The story of an idea that doesn't die, it just waits.
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The King of Glitches: Why Freddie Mercury Would Crash the Algorithm (and Why We Desperately Need It)
The Anomaly in the System On November 24th, the world stops, presses pause on the infinite scroll, and remembers. It's one of those days when the mediocrity of the daily feed feels like a shirt two sizes too small. And as always happens when the air gets stale, I return to it. While I was scrolling through the tributes,…
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Don't Touch Her: When Rock Becomes a Shield (and Kindness a Revolution)
Today is November 25th. A date that shouldn't exist on the calendar, but unfortunately weighs heavily. It's the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This year, the world is shining a spotlight on "digital violence," on those threats that travel quickly through screens. And it's paradoxical, isn't it? We live immersed...
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The Unbearable Lightness of “Skip”: A Sound Odyssey That Challenges the Dictatorship of the Algorithm
By Leandro Vianna, Senior Music Critic, Music & Technology Editor for Roadie Metal. In an era where attention spans have dropped below seven seconds and producers are cutting choruses to fit into the frenetic logic of TikTok, releasing a song that's well over eight minutes isn't just an artistic choice: it's a…
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Metal-FM.com – Interview with Ricky Guariento
Ricky Guariento discusses Symphonic Reverie with Metal-FM: 8 minutes of algorithm-defying progressive metal. An Italian-Japan collaboration, musical philosophy, and the RickyVerse.
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When Music Speaks Louder than Algorithms
Metal Planet Media shares Ricky Guariento's "Symphonic Reverie": 8:32 minutes of prog/symphonic metal that challenges the tyranny of the algorithm. Read the story.
