To Discover: Aida Neira
Aida Neira’s Watercolors: When Metal Paints With Emotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOh7hzTVxs
So, you’ve got a second album that wasn’t supposed to be second. Originally planned for 2024, it got sidetracked, not by failure, but by a full-blown idea: a symphonic metal opera based on Evgeny Kozlov’s fantasy novel. So, Watercolors? It waited. But in 2025, it’s back and it doesn’t feel like a delay. It feels like a revelation.
Aida Neira isn’t just a vocalist. She’s a mood. A feeling. The kind of voice that makes orchestral swells feel like secrets whispered at dawn. This isn’t “metal with strings” as a gimmick. It’s real storytelling: poetic, layered, deeply personal. And yes, there’s romance. Not the kind that sells candles, but the kind that lives in ink-stained journals, in late-night sketches, in the silence between notes.
The themes? Art. Obsession. Memory. You hear it in Artist’s Blindness, where the music itself feels like a painter losing sight, but still painting. Salt of Tears is pure melancholy, a lullaby sung through cracked glass. Mosaic of Memory? That one hits like a shattered window reflecting sunlight: beautiful, broken, unforgettable.
And the sound? Imagine if Nightwish wrote a love letter to Renaissance art, then handed it to someone who’d rather cry than scream. Guitars aren’t loud, they’re present. Strings aren’t flashy, they’re felt. And Aida’s vocals? They don’t dominate. They breathe. Like smoke curling from a candle at midnight.
Evgeny Kozlov handles everything (writing, production, montage) and somehow, it all feels cohesive. No digital coldness. Just warmth, depth, a sense of something crafted with care, not just delivered.
It’s not better than the first album. It’s different. Deeper. More mature. If the debut was a sketch, this is the finished painting: framed, signed, and left on your doorstep at 3 a.m.
In a world where symphonic metal often leans too hard on spectacle, Watercolors feels like a secret. Quiet. Intimate. A record that doesn’t shout “look at me” ; it whispers, “stay.” And honestly? We need more of that.
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