Ottone Pesante Hometown: Faenza, Italy Album: … And the Black Bells Rang, out now via Aural Music. If you’re idly sitting by your computer and want to see something you’ve never seen before, please google this band. I love the idea of the usual butting up against the unusual—that moment when the expected and unexpected meet is where amazing art happens. Ottone Pesante may represent the pinnacle of that idea in metal, in part because it’s an idea that sounds crazy on paper—metal without guitars. In practice, Ottone Pesante actually remind me of the more restrained aspects of Imperial Triumphant, which is to say …And the Black Bells Rang is a bombastic, expansive intersection of jazz, prog, and metal. Where the two diverge most obviously is in not only the focus of brass instrume...