The formation 'Lionheart' had returned from which we do not know where 3 years ago with 'Second Nature' which was a very good album and here is our great group of old artists of 80s hard-rock who came back again with a new album 'The Reality of Miracles' which is well supplied because it contains 12 good compositions (if we exclude the short instrumental introduction integrated into the first track) which are pleasant to listen to and bring us back to a melodic hard rock of the 80s in the line of groups like 'Foreigner', 'Journey', 'Magnum' or even 'Asia', that is to say less energetic than the style of the old band 'Iron Maiden' of guitarist 'Dennis Stratton'.
'Salvation' is an atmospheric introduction that prepares the first track 'Thine Is the Kingdom', offering us a first classical melody that is immediately tamed and which takes us back a few decades, then 'High Plains Drifter' brings beautiful vocal harmonies with a guitar solo worthy of the name and with the eponymous title of the album, we are right in a delicious melodic rock of the eighties with a pleasant intoxicating chorus that we could listen to for long minutes . Follows 'Five Tribes' which is more energetic and which still puts forward a solo of 'Steve Mann' and which has exhilarating choirs, and 'Behind the Wall' takes us on a ballad whicj can be added to the best melodic rock ballads, then, 'All I Want Is You' is yet another melodic nugget that takes us back to the 80s. The rest of the album scrolls 'Widows' with a new heady chorus, the orientalizing 'Kingdom of the East', a classic but very effective 'Outlaws of the Western World', the catchy and delicious 'Overdrive' in which our whole body beats time and 'The First Man' with its rhythm in the same vein as 'Survivor' and an irresistible new chorus. And it is with a new ballad 'Still It Rains on Planet Earth (Lacrimosa)' that any melodic rock group would have wanted to write that the album ends and we can already see a whole audience brandishing its lighter as in the years 70/80 (no now it's old-fashioned, his phone with the torch on !!).
In summary, the English of 'Lionheart' are releasing a very nice album with melodic compositions that takes us back to the 80s and 'The Reality of Miracles' is intended for an audience who loves melodic rock and formations of this period like 'Foreigner', 'Journey' or even 'Magnum'... | |
