In the digital era, it’s rare to encounter a project as ambitious as this: a triple-LP concept album available as a boxed set, including a book with a short story (in Italian) and 180 illustrations. Un Sequestro Lungo 10,000 Anni is the love child of Samuele Gottardello (Blak Saagan) and Iranian illustrator Majid Bita, the second in a series of Opale Editions by Maple Death Records and Canicola Edizioni.
The concept is dystopian, the illustrations vibrant despite their dual tones, portraying a world overrun by monsters and monstrous humans, a savage police force keeping a terrified and often angry populace at bay. In one scene, a bus rushes headlong toward a gaping maw. The apartments are jammed and often infested; Big Brother…