Just over a year after their last album 'Grit Your Teeth' which was part of the myprogmusic playlist of hard melodic albums of the first half of 2020, the Englishmen of 'Vega' do it again with a new album full of good hard-rock that puts you in a hell of a mood and that can be enjoyed from the first to the last composition with happiness. The band is strengthened with a new guitarist 'Billy Taylor' who was in Inglorious' which densifies the guitar section to bring an even more incisive sound, and it's now 'Pete Newdeck' (among others 'Khymera' and 'Nitrate') who takes the drummer's spot in place of 'Martin Hutchinson. With an impeccable production bringing an extraordinary sound dynamic, they concocted 12 little melodic jewels certainly more energetic than the previous album and we thus navigate between muscular compositions like 'Beautiful Lie' (see video above), 'Sooner Or Later with a 'Def Leppard' touch (see video here) or 'Ain't Who I Am' (see video here) or 'Glow' or even 'Had Enough' at the end of the album with its heady chorus, and more measured mid-tempos with for example 'End of the Fade', Welcome to Wherever' and 'Kneel to You'. There are also more varied compositions such as 'Live for Me' which merges a ballad with an energetic middle section and a beautiful guitar solo or 'C'mon' which gives you an irresistible urge to move to the rhythm of the music with its jazzy rhythm, the album ends with '2Die4' which is certainly the most varied track on the album with a memorable final chorus. In short, the Englishmen of 'Vega' continue to delight us with their machine of making melodic hard-rock hit albums and this latest baby 'Anarchy and Unity' comes to enlarge the 'Vega' family which is growing year after year with now 7 children on the counter... | |
