Monster Italian Symphonic Rock band, formed at late 60's, when Sicilian singer Davide "Jimmy'" Spitaleri met the members of the beat group "I Frammenti", led by keyboardist Enrico Olivieri.It took the new Rome-based band about two years to refine their sound and come up with a style closer to the rising force of progressive rock.The 29th May of 1972 was the date when their debut finally sees the light entitled "…E Fu Il Sesto Giorno" on Vedette Label, with lyrics dealing with the positives and negatives of the human nature and an obscure cover featuring Spitaleri in the role of Jesus Christ.
"…E Fu Il Sesto Giorno" is one of the greatest examples of the growing progressive scene in Italy. Obviously Spilateri and Olivieri are the driving forces in this debut. Spilateri has a dramatic, emotional operatic color in his voice, making every sung line a pure heaven for the listener…

Metamorfosi's Inferno is a remarkable record that sits somewhere in the middle between Italian rock, opera and synth-dominated heavy prog. It is often called dark and sinister, an impression further enhanced by the bleak artwork, and it certainly is quite gothic from a 70s perspective. Of course, by today's standards it is fairly mild and friendly. Inferno is a conceptual album, based on Dante's "La Divina Commedia".

The path of Italian RPI group Metamorfosi has been an interesting one. Starting, like many of the future defining Italian prog acts, with a humble little debut that mixed Sixties pop, gospel and folk elements (1972's "…E Fu il Sesto Giorno"), a year later they would deliver what would become one of the legendary Italian progressive works with "Inferno", also one of the greatest keyboard-dominated albums in all of the genre, based around one part of the epic "Divina Commedia" (Divine Comedy) poem, a source that would continue as inspiration for continued Metamorfosi works over the decades. Despite a third album being written soon after the seminal 1973 work, the band split and it would remain unrecorded, at least until a version of the group reformed in the Nineties…