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The video is standard Frontiers crap. Why are there two keyboard players?! I like the song though! I think Crossfire was lightning caught in a bottle but I certainly have higher hopes for this one than when she was being produced by ADV.

No official release yet so don't know when exactly the album is supposed to come out but I'm assuming it's this year. I'm sure you're all brimming with excitement.

The bracket I filled out this year might be my worst ever. I had Kentucky and St. Mary's in the Elite Eight and Auburn in the Final Four... I'm really looking forward to Gonzaga vs. Purdue. You know Purdue is looking to make amends after last year's debacle.

First pass, not particularly impressed. There's something cheesy about the songs that I can't put my finger on.

Can I get a FUCK YEAH?

Kind of a boring song in my opinion. Nothing they've done since they reunited has really moved me, a few great songs on each album but a lot of plodding, bluesy stuff as well that I just can't get into. I'll listen to anything Overland sings at least once though!

idk guys, I think you can only polish a turd so much. It's definitely a great attempt and as whiplash1972 says, there have been a lot of such projects since, what, 2007ish? But IMO St. Anger has never been a bad album only because of the snare drum, or the lack of guitar solos, or the long songs. It's a bad album because it's an album full of bad songs. Metallica is supposed to be badass! This is not that! Listen to Invisible Kid or Purify and tell me what's even a little cool about those songs. The whole thing is just so whiny and cringey, definitely a product of its era which was the worst for metal as a genre.

Look into Magic Dance and LeBrock too, those are a couple of great projects that blend synthwave and AOR.

The song is OK. Extremely typical Martensson riff and production but it's better than most of Megalomanium. All the bots in the video comments are loving it though!

Not even a year after the last one? Sad to say I'm not very optimistic...

https://www.loudersound.com/features/best-scandinavian-aor-albums Europe – The Final Countdown (1986) Fate – A Matter Of Attitude (1986) TNT – Tell No Tales (1987) Alien – Alien (1988) Stage Dolls – Stage Dolls (1988) Talisman – Talisman (1990) Pretty Maids – Jump The Gun (1990) Work Of Art – Work Of Art (2008) Treat – Coup De Grace (2010) H.e.a.t - H.e.a.t II (2020) What do we think? They have the wrong TNT album IMO (Intuition!) but otherwise pretty solid. Also nice to see some more modern albums getting some love.

Interesting that they call it an AOR album...I wonder if that was intentional seeing as how their last one was closer to hard rock and IMO not up to par with their better works. Uninspiring production and Jidhed's voice sounded a little weak... Eternity on the other hand was awesome, but geez, that was already 10 years ago. Do they still have enough left in the tank?

Not many details other than "it sounds great" (phew!) but has been submitted to Frontiers so we'll probably get a sample in the coming weeks. https://www.facebook.com/LIONVILLEofficial/posts/pfbid085BFQtZqdGgBHjWvhDfPsrUfdvMKqC3MN9ftGD6Zk48ZRcTNbLrj67KzNo9c2jYul

They have a real knack for writing (and producing!) songs that could be featured in '80s coming of age films and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. Really putting the retro in retrowave

Does anyone have some recommendations on where to start with this band? It seems like every album I try listening to has some good songs but also a lot of filler...