After 'Human Nature' in 2016 (see here), the Italo-Americans of 'Hardline' come back with a new album simply called 'Life' and confirms that they are a major formation of melodic hard-rock. The trio 'Alessandro Del Vecchio', 'Johnny Gioeli' and 'Anna Portalupi' are still there but they welcome a new guitarist 'Mario Percudani' who is often remarked in many ways in many titles and a new drummer 'Marco Di Salvia which ensures a rhythm section always very effective. The opus consists of 12 tracks with from one side good melodic hard-rock that immediately enters into your head: impossible to stay marble listening to 'Take a Chance', 'Helio's Sun', 'Hold on to Right ',' Story of My Life 'or' Chamaleon '. And then, they also have the talent to give us beautiful, quieter titles like the power ballad 'Page of Your Life' which must certainly remind some of those of 'Scorpions' or the other ballad 'My Love' where the singing of 'Johnny Gioeli' fills the whole space. We can also note, on the one hand, the cover of 'Who Wants to Live Forever' of 'Queen' in which 'Johnny Gioeli' does not try to copy 'Freddy Mercury' but appropriates it himself totally while keeping the force emotional of the original, and secondly, the last title 'My Friend' which embarks us one last time but this time in an acoustic atmosphere full of sensitivity. In summary, between energy and emotion, there is nothing to throw in this last album of 'Hardline' and 'Life' is advisable to all fans of an accessible melodic hard rock and is to consume without moderation... | |
