Glen

mine, in no order cos I like them all : Vega Creye Midnite City Defiants Story of the Year Degreed Lebrock Eclipse Tempt Nighthawk Hugo's Voyage Overland Modx My fav non HH album was Maneskin. Absolutely love it. Not seen them live but their televised set at Glastonbury was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

One of the main issues with this album is Hess screaming over every track. Don't get me wrong I love Hess but for some reason he renders this album almost unlistenable. When they were recording this someone should have reeled him in imo. There are some good songs, but a mixture of downtuning (Always Be There), frantic uncomfortable listening (Rain for your roses) or just average elements (like solo in Shoot The Bullet) just means it fell off my radar and I can't see me returning to it in 2024. Imo the Vega album is miles better 🤷

terrible

love both.

Nice

I saw extreme on porno tour with Hardline supporting (with Schon)

Nice. saw him live about 30 yrs ago. Been a while lol

I love this album. About as close to classic Journey as you'll hear. But the songs stand up in their own right. Million times better than the last Journey album, production is amazing, Hugo sounds great. How Many Times > I'll be around is magnificent, like classic era.

v West Coast

2?

easy Epic & Ladder 😉

Not feeling this one 😕 As mentioned production is weak (and plain annoying when most other bands nail it even on a shoestring), Strandells vocals are just not me 🤷, pretty generic song titles and ideas that you've heard a million times. Sure folk will love it plenty but it's a hard pass for me

it's basically the 5th WoA album with Overland singing. I like it a lot. I hear zero Neal Schon tho 🤔

I joined this forum 1 month before my daughter was born and she'll be 17 in Jan. Madness.

singer is weak imo.

Great song imo

didn't do much for me overall

. too

excellent stuff

I'm guessing in no order - Vega Creye Midnite City Defiants Story of the Year Degreed Lebrock Eclipse Tempt Nighthawk probably round out a very good top 10. I suspect Overland will destroy all though in a month's time First single is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

maneskin & Lebrock

thinking about it I'd go again if the played something like this - just listed in album order : Breaking my Heart Again Millions Miles Away Bleed & Scream A Bitter Taste Love Bites I Dont Wanna Say Im Sorry Killing Me Jaded No Way Back Mary Leigh Roses on Our Grave Dead Inside Hearts Collide Hardest Part is Losing You

Gave this a proper listen today. Let's be honest, Eclipse have been pretty weak since 2017's Monementum imo. I loved that album (except Downfall of Eden 😖), but everything since has been equal part good songs to fillers. The same is true here - I'd say about 5 keepers (mostly on first half). Also, just an observation but every album seems to have a terrible nordic sounding semi war, semi inspiro song now which I absolutely hate but Erik absolutely loves and includes in their set - part of the reason I won't see them live again : Here it is Anthem. What an awful, instantly skippable pile of Nordic jibberish. Previous albums it was as follows : Read to Rock : Hometown Calling Bleed & Scream : Battlegrounds Armageddonize : Blood Enemies Monumentum : Downfall of Eden Paradigm : United Wired : Run for Cover and now Anthem - possibly the worst of all 😉

im afraid that hasn't any of the spark or magic of the original. Erik is obviously forging a career now but posting endless cover songs on You Tube and Singing but a bunch of washed out old farts is a waste of talent imo.

was Bruce Mee of Fireworks Mag.