VENUS 5 – March Of The Venus 5 (2026) *HQ*
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VENUS 5, the all-female European pop-metal sensation comprised of Tezzi Persson (Sweden, singer of HELL IN THE CLUB), Karmen Klinc (Slovenia), Jelena Milovanovic (Serbia), Greta Di Iacovo (a.k.a. Herma, Italy, singer of SICK N’ BEAUTIFUL) and Erina Seitllari (Albania), will release its second studio album, titled “March Of The Venus 5“, on March 20, 2026 via Frontiers Music.
Uniting five distinctive voices from across the European continent, VENUS 5 pushes its sound to new heights on “March Of The Venus 5”, embracing a more traditional metal direction while retaining the massive hooks and glossy production that defined the band’s debut.
The brain behind “March Of The Venus 5” is expert Aldo Lonobile (Secret Sphere), with a precise production and providing some guitar also. All the instruments and songwriting elements are smartly and economically marshalled by Lonobile. His high impact Melodic Metal, smoothed out in places, roughed up in others is handled with skill by his seasoned studio band, Gabriele Robotti (g) Antonio Agate (k) Andrea Buratto (b), Marco Lazzarini (d).
With five vocalists there’s a whole lot of vocal switching going on. Not all of them are immediately identifiable, except maybe Tezza Persson (Hell In The Club) and Herma Of Sick ’n’ Beautiful. The others, Karmen Kilnk, Jelena Milovanovic and Erina Seittlari seem to act as spokeswomen for the band.
The commercial melodic metal formula deployed in the opening pair of tracks tracks – the big, booming ‘March Of The Venus 5’, and ‘Like A Witch’, sinewy and uncompromising, is almost maintained across the album’s duration.
On ‘Set Me Free’s we hear unconventional harmonies and emotive framing. Lonobile’s brisk treatment creates a sonic image of bruised feelings and almost spent emotions, backed up to the hilt by velvet clad rhythms… a rubbery bass over a hard hit snare.
All that said the fem-five seem to keep their best vocal performances for ‘Stereotypes’. An anthem with a message, neatly arranged and produced, with an irritatingly familiar melody.
The Symphonic surge of ‘Surrender’s chorus gives the album a push just when we began worrying it was losing momentum. Elsewhere, ‘Winter On My Skin’ is more hard rock than metal. In a different world Annie Lennox would have recorded this one.
“March Of The Venus 5” dances around the fringes of pop metal, melodic metal and symphonic metal, all laced with tight knit melodic rock.
The album will attract fans of all the sub genres mentioned. But ‘Take It From The Start’, the album’s big ballad, crosses genre lines. It just might crossover onto mainstream radio play if properly promoted.
Highly Recommended
01 – March Of The Venus 5
02 – Like A Witch
03 – Far Away
04 – Set Me Free
05 – Stereotypes
06 – Surrender
07 – Satelite
08 – Invincible
09 – Winter On My Skin
10 – Take It From The Start
11 – The Other Shore
Karmen Klinc – Vocals
Herma – Vocals
Jelena Milovanovic – Vocals
Tezzi Persson – Vocals
Erina Seitllari – Vocals
Andrea Buratto – Bass
Gabriele Robotti – Guitars
Antonio Agate – Keys
Marco Lazzarini – Drums
Aldo Lonobile – Production, Additional guitars
Serena Torti – Additional Vocals
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