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Bloody Mary presented themselves as humanity's greatest nightmare. After all the members had taken the stage, the singer came running on covered in a black robe, then threw it off to reveal to the world his body wrapped in a long strip of cling film! Once the initial shock had passed, I started following the performance. Bloody Mary are already fairly well known, but for those who do not know them we could define them as HIM stripped of their suicidal and manic-depressive tendencies. So: energetic but vaguely romantic hard rock, with the kind of melodies that set hearts alight at once without becoming unbearably sugary... Nothing to say about the execution, which was more than good, nor about the lungs of the singer, who sang (very well) and ran up and down without a break wearing practically nothing. (...)

First published in Italian; in English here.