And it is one more album on the 'Inglorious' counter after 'Ride to Nowhere' in 2019 and, the less that we can say, is that the compositions of this latest baby of the Englishs is still a powerful melodic hard-rock bomb that gets you in shape for a whole day. This new album also saw a major line-up change with new guitarists 'Dan Stevens' and 'Danny Dela Cruz' and a new bassist 'Vinnie Colla', vocalist 'Nathan James' and drummer 'Phil Beaver' remaining at the helm of the ship.
And from the start, from the first three tracks, we get to the heart of the matter and these are three powerful and melodic hits (let's not forget the massive and very dynamic production) which are offered to us and which take us with their devastating riffs, 'Nathan James' continuing to throw us great interpretations with always that little resemblance to 'David Coverdale' of 'Whitesnake'. With the two following titles 'Eye of the Storm' and 'Cruel Intentions', we say to ourselves that we will have a right to recover, but the two acoustic introductions are deceptive and the chorus of the first accelerates the rhythm and becomes much more powerful and the second is a melodic mid-tempo, certainly more moderate than the first three titles but remains nevertheless quite powerful with some more moderate inflections in the second part. It is with 'Misery' that we find this resemblance so characteristic of 'Nathan James' with the singer of 'Withesnake' and this talent to move us in the quieter passages, then, 'Do You Like It' comes back to classic hard-rock borrowed from a good dose of blues that makes you sweat and sticks to your skin and 'He Will Provide' welcomes us with an introduction close to 'Van Halen' and unrolls a devastating new track with an alternation of masterful tempo which gives a very particular force to this title and which offers us an admirable guitar solo in the second half. The end of the album scrolls through the melodic mid-tempo 'We Will Meet Again', certainly classic but so effective, a 'God of War' which acts as a ballad in some parts which alternate with others much faster and the eponymous title of the album which is ultimately the closest composition to a ballad, even if the tempo remains quite high in some places.
In summary, this new album from the English of 'Inglorious' is still a total success and, even if for my part it lacks more quiet titles like the magnificent 'Wake' from the first album or 'Glory Day' of the last one, the renewal of the line-up certainly brings more spontaneity and freshness, all this being transcended by an irreproachable production which should make 'We Will Ride' one of the major hard-rock releases of the 2021 year... | |
