Rounding out the August 6 release of 'Frontiers' (and the label also released other albums on the same day with 'Come One, Comme All' from 'Circus of Rock', 'Isle Of Wrath' from 'Long Shadow Dawn' and 'All Things Must Pass' from 'Alirio'), it's to Brazil that we go with the album 'Overload' from the new band 'Spektra', which is composed of artists who regularly perform with the well-known American singer 'Jeff Scott Soto'. And by the way, it's Jeff himself who supervised and produced the whole thing helped by a certain 'Alessandro Del Vecchio' (that's it, I'm now pretty sure, this guy, to soak in so many different projects, he mustn't sleep more than 10 minutes a night!!). We are thus plunged in a kind of a best of in melodic hard-rock of the 80s/90s with anthems in mess composed by the singer of the group, 'BJ' (of his name 'Luis Paulo de Almeida Junior'), very popular in Brazil and who has nothing to envy to 'Jeff Scott Soto' in the vocal performances. Like the 4 other releases of 'Frontiers' reviewed in the previous days in myprogmusic, the melodic hits follow one after the other and we can quote the energetic title track that starts the album (see video above), 'Runnin' out of Time' (see video here) and 'Breakaway' and their melodies that immediately get into the head, the catchy 'Our Love' without forgetting the calm moment with the ballad 'Since I Found You'. In short, we spend a very pleasant moment listening to this first album of 'Spektra' which should like the other releases of 'Frontiers', fill with happiness all the aficionados of rock and melodic hard-rock... | |
