After the noticed first album 'One Desire' in 2017 thanks to its hit 'Hurt' wich count more than 3,600,000 listenings on Spotify, the Finns of 'One Desire' release a new album called 'Midnight Empire'. Inevitably this puts a lot of pressure but it is clear that this last baby is a condensed of unstoppable melodies to consume without moderation perhaps a notch above its predecessor and the Finns continue to ride the wave of formations of the great Nordic melodic hard-rock family like 'Eclipse', 'HEAT', 'WET'< / a> or 'Nordic Union'.
Of the 10 tracks on the album, there are about… 10 melodic jewels that we immediately appropriate by starting with an energetic 'Shadowman' with a first refrain that tickles your neurons and gives you a hell of a peach for all day, then, 'After You're Gone', more classic, brings us back to the 80s with heady choirs which give a mad desire to accompany them. Useless to make some title to title because I would not repeat the same thing 8 other times and I will simply quote the two quieter compositions in which they also excel, first of all the magnificent 'Through The Fire' which begins in ballad acoustic and which turns into a power ballad for a final acceleration with a remarkable guitar solo, then 'Rio' which also begins in ballad and which unfolds a beautiful melody in a style close to AOR and then 'Only When I Breathe 'which ends the album in peace with a last ballad overflowing with emotion.
In summary, as you will understand, no surprise for lovers of melodic hard-rock, you can go there with your eyes closed and taste this new Finnish baby of 'One Desire' without moderation because it's another melodic bomb which shows that they have, in two albums, taken a major place in the long list of melodic hard-rock bands of the moment (see Melodic hard rock albums rock of the first semester 2020)... | |
