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First review I've seen of the new H.e.a.t album. It's in Spanish so google translate is a little spotty, but can still get the gist of it. Sounding pretty good https://viriaor.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/h-e-a-t-ii-2020-gain-music-review/ When you have done preterite work full of quality and talent you always have the hope that one day you will recover the brightness of then. Examples are hundreds, not always fairies reach the brain in time when composing music. But this time, and we are in luck ... if they have. An army of fairies that could pale the hordes of the army of white walkers of Game of Thrones, have locked themselves together with Dalone, Jona Tee or Erik Grönwall to compose a disc that is finally at the height expected of a group that took his first three albums at a dazzling height and his last two clearly lower. I will not make blood for it, I just clarify it because many people who like me were disappointed, just tell them that when they hear this new rebirth called, HEAT II will simply hallucinate. Because again they have decided to return to the melodic paths that they rightly trodden and they have done it with tremendously well composed songs, performed and executed from the most absolute perfection. They are a sample of what they can get to give, how much they know about this style of Rock and that since their sixth studio album, they already have enough seniority to get a record crammed with hits and potential singles. It is difficult to choose a single theme. From the crushing sound of Dave Dalone to the guitars, to a few keyboards of Jona Tee wisely integrated into each theme, now yes, Erik shines at an extraordinary height, where the power of his choruses full of energy and compositional talent gives the album A taste of the usual melodic rock. When you first hear the Rock your body keyboards together with the firepower that covers Dalone's guitar, you're just going to freak out. Erik dominates the scene like no other, a simple but catchy refrain that enters almost to the first. The thing is that the thing does not stop moving, something is always happening on the subject. Dalone making excesses, the keys decorating everything like a huge musical mosaic, and Erik's voice covering the entire landscape with snow. The bass and the drums are secondary actors but with firm hand bearing the instrumental weight. One of those that Dave is marked when he is angry, full of class and difficulty. And without time to catch breath, we get a tremendous march Dangerous ground with a beastly guitar and choirs that reminds me of the best bands of the genre. Much more melodic than I expected but with a devastating firepower. This live has to sound fable, an authentic ode to talent that can be demonstrated by the best Nightranger , and I assure you that I do not exaggerate anything. Hence my face of amazement ... of real amazement at the great song they just showed me. And not happy with these unimaginable levels of high-level talent, they mark Come Clean , another sign that at the time of composing this album something has had to happen to them ... they have also abducted them, perhaps OdinHe has sent his mythological warriors with his famous sacred scrolls endowed with infinite wisdom, because if not, I do not understand. This is available to few people, because to compose with this level of quality we must visit certain scholars who proclaim in the caves of the Dead Sea the knowledge that give rise to the wisdom of life. It is of a quality that this song will leave in diapers almost everything you have heard throughout this year, saving the unbeatable album of Work of Art. It causes me such intense sensations, that I have a sweaty forehead, something like if I had been doing 100 push-ups Marine style of the Seals brushing the mud of the puddles with the tip of the nose.Image result of HEAT "II" I recognize that he has not given me time to recover when Victory explodes before my nose , a catchy melodic Hard song that causes me to devote my most absolute attention. The things that happen around me are unimportant because I am listening to one of the best songs that I remember this band. Erik who was never too appreciated for my personal hobby that is surely just that, a stupid hobby, is absolutely brilliant. Sing at a stratospheric level, it is certainly at the level of the band, Jona Tee is marked a tremendous keyboard solo to which Dalone responds as only the best know how to do. Sometimes the theme seems more Central European metal but the melody load that carries the theme sweeps everything around it. We are gods has a beginning of the best Whitesnake of 1987, although here I have to say that to reach such levels, many cereals must still be eaten for breakfast. But I have to admit that the subject is an overwhelming exhibition of continued talent that perhaps sinns too much in some parts with much more power than the subject needs. Even so, it is surprising the evolution (for the better) that Erik has experienced in how he sings today, and what this boy has learned. AdrenalineIt is the clear example of how well the title in question comes to what the subject releases. Because listening to this song, an example of pure melodic talent, will cause an adrenaline rush in your brain that I recommend you do not hear when you are driving, or you will run the risk of accelerating too much how you get carried away by the euphoria that causes listening to this song Overflowing with infinite quality. It is incredible that in what we have of disc the issue has not yet reached the cognazo that almost all the discs have. I've been sweating for a while because this is an unexpected enjoyment, a shake all over my body because it is impossible to stop enjoying this high tech product. You will think that it is already well, there are too many dangerously good subjects followed so that these people continue to harm our brain by an excess of endorphins watering so continuously your hypothalamus. And these people absolutely insensitively, have decided to continue punishing us with One by onewhich is my lords, the great song of the night ... is a crushing discharge with tons of talent brought from beyond what our imagination might suspect. It's so fucking good that you can't hear just once. It happened to me that it was to finish listening to it, and put it back on ... and so on up to 6 times. A true musical portent comes to see us gentlemen, and I hope you are sufficiently prepared or your heart may not be able to withstand so much pleasure so continuously. Even the guitar solo is simply overwhelming. Dalone was always good, but he managed to get to possess the power of the Jedi. Simply immense. Like Erik who has tamed his excellent vocal faculties until he sang in an impressive way. Nothing to say is that part-time with which to hug that beloved person and travel to those moments of past happiness that are still there, in some corner of your memories stored in a trunk hidden by some part of your brain. An excellent song majestically sung and that surely will cause some pinch of satisfaction when you get to hear it because it is a really beautiful song. Heaven must have won an angel makes me wonder how the hell they have done it. But how is this possible? It is not reasonable for me that suddenly these boys have managed to compose with these quality levels without having sold their soul to the devil. It seems to me simply the perfect subject, this gentlemen is pure AOR but not AOR of those easy-going gangs already buried and buried by the sands of time. This is something else. We are again facing a huge theme, another work of art that cannot be composed from human wisdom. Here I am sure that the divine forces have intervened because we are facing a precious issue, everyone will like, even that army of Hatersthat abound so much in the world of music. I think it's a real discovery. A great theme for an album that clashes directly with perfection. As is Under the gun , another explosion of melodic sound with colossal choruses and a crushing sound of good Rock. I can not explain it only with words, the theme is a real musical orgy, all naked to enjoy an afternoon endowed with the erotic of good music. By the way, the guitar solo is another example of absolute power. And the absolutely bright keys. I can not stop hearing this album, but I begin to suspect that this may become like a drug ... I see myself with a disheveled, sweaty expression, a lost look and enjoying theme after theme that raises my passion to hard to understand limits . To finish fucking it, the album ends with another colossal expression of compositional power called Rise, an overwhelming great song that already from the beginning of the keys you begin to suspect that something big is coming ... until suddenly that sound of guitar, voice, and the rest of the members that devastate everything in its path appear. It is so spectacular that you simply cannot believe that you are facing such an extraordinary overexposure of melodic quality. The theme is so good, with choirs around here, over there, that damn guitar that takes you completely out of your comfort zone, and takes your cerebellum to the limit of pleasant suffering that can provide you with such good songs. This is like having a continuous orgasm of about 45 minutes that this fucking melodic masterpiece of this century lasts. Listening to this album many times cannot be healthy. It is so shocking that it will take your brain to the limit, so much pleasure together is impossible to process properly. Frankly I am overwhelmed because I did not expect this. These guys are too good, I knew they could mess it up, what I did not expect is that it was possibly the best album not this year, since it comes out in February, but what goes on this century ... but it is simply impossible to process in the breadth that this album deserves because they have long exceeded my expectations. I can not stop listening to it from the moment it has fallen into my hands and I, I assure you, have more important things to do in my life ... what happens is that for now I can not stop doing it ... I hope it does not reach you catch you this way ... who knows ... For me they deserved the perfect grade. It does not have a filling theme, a true miracle in the times. What is certain is that it will be one of the best albums you will hear in a long time, and that gentlemen ... is already a privilege. 100%

Official info. All looking good except the DIGIPAK I despise those things. Looks like I'll be ordering from Japan as they usually still do jewel cases there. Probably will be some good bonus track I'll want anyways. http://melodicrock.com/articles/news-feed/2019/11/27/heat-ii-out-february-21?fbclid=IwAR2cSII85iFxsqQmEiQWNL3LtjGZfl_pxamLvuRSs2iKI-bqcFsJhe_3QA0 “H.E.A.T II” is the first album by Swedish hard rock sensation H.E.A.T to be produced entirely by the band - with Jona Tee and Dave Dalone as producers. This album goes back to the band’s beginnings, redefining the raw H.E.A.T sound – a sound that oozes classic rock coolness paired with the snotty confidence of one of rock and roll’s most talented bands today. “This is what we would sound like if we made a debut album 2019, hence the title.” “H.E.A.T II” will be released on February 21, 2020 via earMUSIC. “H.E.A.T II” will be available as CD Digipak, Vinyl and Digital on 21st February 2020 via earMUSIC. I've also seen elsewhere that the next single Come Clean should be out around 1/10/20 and the last single Dangerous Ground out around 1/31/20.

Yeah....I saw a post just last week that mixing/mastering was done. Not sure why the delay....maybe the label pushed them back or something. Probably will see a single in early/mid January and then another in February around the album release I'd guess. I was hoping it would be out before the Monster of Rock Cruise but should hopefully still get to hear a couple new songs on the ship

Saw on FB somewhere that the new album release date might now be Feb 21, 2020. Don't quote me on it though. Also saw the next single should be out in January called "Come Clean". And unofficial tracklist for the album: 1. Rock Your Body 2. Dangerous Ground 3. Come Clean 4. Victory 5. We Are Gods 6. Adrenaline 7. One By One 8. Nothing to Say 9. Heaven Must Have Won an Angel 10. Under The Gun 11. Rise

Looking forward to this but proceeding with caution being that they have a new singer. Music sounding good...vocals will be the key for me.

Really? I think it's the opposite for me....Loving it more with each listen. Even starting to dig If You Want Peace and Slave Driver when I didn't care for those much initially. Again though, being so late to Pretty Maids this almost feels like their 4th album to me so maybe I'm not so worn out on them of have quite the same basis of comparison. For me it's between this or Crazy Lixx for my #1 spot this year with Defiants very close behind in third. It's really splitting hairs though....Love all 3 of these.

I do feel like Leppard is still sounding great and putting on excellent shows. The only problem is how uninspired their setlists are outside of their Vegas shows. It's tough getting excited about a 15 song setlist that will be 13 of the same songs they play on every tour. As for Crue, I saw them on their last tour and they were downright horrible. It's a shame as I was a big fan of them back in the day and they always put on fantastic shows. These days though, Vince holds the mic to the crowd for the crowd to sing every other line while Mick Mars looks like a hologram statue off to the side. It's pretty painful to watch outside of the girl dancers. As for Poison, they're still pretty good but again the setlist is boring as can be and they'll play the same 8 songs with CC's guitar solo and Rikki's drum solos. Their act never changes and we know they don't have any new songs to bring to the table. 15 years ago this would've been a great bill but I have little desire to see this now. I'd rather take that money and travel to see new bands that are making good new music. And that's coming from a big Leppard fan lol.

Digging this tune. Has about a 1 min 40 sec intro included here that is separate on the album.

Listening today....pretty good. Couple annoying moments with the Intro and Interlude....both kinda pointless. The Interlude is more annoying to me as it just breaks up things that are flowing along well. So it's really a 10 track album. And for me Blue Virgin Isles is horribly boring...So for me it's really a 9 track album. The rest is all pretty solid though. It starts out kinda with the heavy side of Degreed and seems to get more commercial as it goes along. Initially, I think my early standouts are Lost Generation, Summer Of Love and Body Of Work. Lost Generation is a pretty melodic type rocker, Summer of Love kind of a throwback mild melodic rocker and Body of Work just feels like typical Degreed with poppy and heavy elements blended together. Overall, feels maybe a bit more commercial than their previous efforts and can't say it's overly blowing me away. At the same time though still good and some worthy additions to their catalog.

Seem like good releases but TBH none of those have seemed to do much for me. I kinda view them all as kind of lighter AOR that just doesn't seem to really grab me. I need a little edge in my AOR....Kinda like Defiants, H.e.a.t, etc. Work of Art I've tried multiple times and just don't care for at all. Haven't looked overly close at the other two although I know I sampled the singles when they came out and didn't care for them enough to go much farther. Maybe I'll revisit.

Been giving this a little thought....Think my top 5 is pretty strong but the next 5 are all just pretty average releases that probably wouldn't even make my top 10 in some other years. Not sure on the order of my top 3 yet but will be Crazy Lixx, Defiants and Pretty Maids in some order. Then likely Eclipse and Degreed rounding out the top 5. Next 5 in some order are probably Station, Nitrate, Roxy Blue, Tesla and Saints of Sin. I still might try to go back and check out some stuff I've missed from this year though so this "next 5" could easily change.

Yeah, I think that's really it. I mean, if Paradigm were their first album and they were a new band, we'd probably all be salivating over it. But we've now had all these Eclipse albums, 3 W.e.t album , 2 Nordic Unions albums, Ammunition and whatever else Erik works with. It's all starting to kind sound like run of the mill stuff. I can't blame him as he's just trying to make a buck and do what he loves doing. But it's also turning into a bit of oversaturation. If it were up to me I'd say just stick with Eclipse and W.e.t and use other free time just producing/mixing for other bands. No arguing he's a talented dude and quite an artist. I couldn't even come up with one good album of material lol.

I do like it well enough but updated my car USB last night and grabbed 6 songs from this (Viva, Mary Leigh, United, When The Winter Ends, Delirious and The Masquerade). The rest is okay and easy enough to listen to but doesn't really overly grab me. I'm not sure really even what they can do to improve. Mostly just stop wasting good songs on other projects. As much as I liked Nordic Union's debut, I think that's the project that should be stopped. Quite a few songs used there that would've made good Eclipse tunes and with how melodic Pretty Maids has become they're doing it better.

Just bumping as a reminder this is out 11/15 since this band seems to generally fly pretty under the radar. Expecting this to be pretty good outside of that Blue Virgin Isles track....

Will be there too...gonna be awesome!

For me this is way better than Motherland. Actually, think I only have 5 songs on my playlist from that album...Mother of All Lies, Sad to See You Suffer, Infinity, I See Ghosts and Bullet For You. The rest really doesn't do much for me. Pandemonium is excellent but still a few tunes I generally skip. Kingmaker has 2 songs I skip...Sickeming and Civilized Monsters. Need more time with the new one but only a couple tunes I'm initially lukewarm on with If You Want Peace and Slavedriver. They do rock though and too early to tell if they'll grow on me or not. Either way, lots of great music from these guys with these past 4 albums

Excellent tune!

For me I'd say Will You Still Kiss Me is one of the best power ballads I've heard in awhile....awesome tune. Fantastic album!

Cranking the new album today....initial impression is great stuff! For me, the first 6 songs are all instantly pretty awesome. Then for my tastes it dips a little with If you Want Peace and Slavedriver. Not terrible tunes but both pretty heavy, driving tunes and not really catchy songs with a chorus that grabs you. These are the kinds of Pretty Maids tunes that often just don't seem to do too much for me....Kinda like Sickening and Civilized Monsters on the last album. I think I like these tunes better than the two I mentioned though. It bounces back with Shadowlands though and finishes strong. Need more listens to really digest but overall sounding excellent to me and is every bit as good as I was hoping it would be

For me, I didn't start getting into these guys until Pandemonium so I was really late to the party. I guess one good thing about that though is that they feel really fresh to me even though they've been around so long. For me they just keep getting better and I liked Kingmaker every bit as much as Pandemonium and Motherland. While Pandemonium and Motherland might have some stronger highlights, I dare say Kingmaker might even be my favorite top to bottom but I know I'm probably in the minority there. Can't wait to check out this new one. Have listened to samples a couple times and just think I'm really gonna dig this one...It's seeming very melodic and have dug all the tunes so far. We'll see

Not interested enough to even click play on it. .pass.

I like these guys a lot but I'd bet this isn't what you've been looking for.... Chris Lane had said in an interview that this album is mostly just a collection of older songs they had laying around that didn't make their first two albums for whatever reason and it does kinda feel a little like leftovers in that the songs don't really seem to bring much new to the table. I mean, there's some good tunes but about half of it isn't really doing much for me which I think is due mostly to the 3 ballads and 1 instrumental. For me, A Matter of Time, Never Enough, Burning Out Fast and All You Need Is A Heartbeat are my highlights. Emily and Nothin' But Love are okay but probably will be forgettable. And the ballads all kinda drag for me kinda in the same way the ballads dragged on their last album. Basically, if I could combine this album and their last album and pick my top 11 songs....I could make a really killer album Good, talented band and I really like a lot of what they've done. I wonder though if it might be time for them to get with a label and/or work with a producer that can inject some fresh ideas and really help take them to a different level.