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I prefer it to come clean, haha.

But yeah back on topic, I'm looking forward to the new One Desire too I remember that Sturm und Drang band from back in the day so was kinda surprised when I heard "one of those really young metal lads" was joining a melodic rock band. He still looks sorta outta place with his flying V (not that I care about image really) but it's all good  

I love the first three HEAT albums, but not so much the last two at all. So it's not so much a singer thing with me - I really like both, but I do wonder if it's the Eric/Dave combo that really does it for me, as I'm a guitar player and I find all the lead playing on the first two albums really amazing stuff.

Beg beg beg is great! though I wish they'd play just it and not transition into other songs like highway star covers or whatever. And Danger Road should never not be on their live setlist.

It's criminal that shite like a shot at redemption and mannequin show are still sat on the setlist when older stuff could be taking their place

I like the new song but it's a touch generic. The solo is a bit the same, no real ear grabbing hooks that jump out like the previous two songs. Slow down, Dave 

But yeah, it's still REALLY good.

God yeah, Digipaks are horrible  

This is shaping up to be a great album

The band has no identity either, which I'm surprised I care about so much. Feel like the current bunch will just vanish someday and we'll see new faces without a word mentioned!

7 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Oh and yeah, this sounds like something that could have been on ATN. I knew all of this "throw back to the first two albums" stuff would end up being a load of old guff.

It sounds more like the first two albums to me... 

Aye, it's top notch stuff. Did Dave have much writing input on the last album? I'm wondering if this is his first proper release since rejoining...

It's unlisted for some reason - 

Yeah I won't be going near this one either, and I like the other two albums.

That sounds great!

Nah, not at all. Shot at Redemption is utterly generic (HATE this live, ZZZZzzz), Mannequin Show has that horrible keyboard on it (my friend when seeing them live made the obvious "Britney Spears?" comment), All the Nights just doesn't really hit that emotional mark for me.. Tearing down the walls track sounds like something that's been done a million times by a million other bands. Laughing at Tomorrow doesn't work for me either and I was REALLY looking forward to that from the studio videos. Such a weak album closer from them.

They went for a harder sound on the album and just ended up sounding too generic.

Point of no return, Emergency and We will never die are class though. I really like pretty much every song from the first 3 albums so they're better in my opinion.

Yep I'm super excited for this, as the last two albums haven't come close to the quality of the first three for me.

It's just a shame Eric Rivers isn't there!

Really like the new singers voice  Been waiting for this album since We are the legion was released a year and a half ago!

Yeah really liking this too, so far. A step up from the previous which I thought was pretty good in itself!

Yeah Eye of the storm is probably one of the best songs on the new album. Agree with you on Laughing at tomorrow.. I remember being so keen to hear it based on the studio session videos they were uploading for the album, but it just didn't work at all for me when I finally heard it. Such a weak ending to the album

"Mannequin Show (how did this not get on?)" - Because it's not very good?

It's really hard not to get over the "sounds like Britney spears" thing. I brought my friend to a gig and she immediately spotted the similarities, despite never having heard it before.

Beg Beg Beg is great! A shot at... and Best of the broken are awful though.

30 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

How does this change how someone feels about a band?

It's not like they killed someone.

They did actually - they told me who - but it's still a secret I believe

Great tune, but I wish he'd lay off the sweep picking on the guitar solos. It got tiresome in Art Nation.

Am pleasantly surprised by this. Didn't know what to think of the new singer based on the two awful promo pictures 

Like his vocals a lot though and the track is pretty damn good Excited for the album now!

Yeah was never much a fan of this at all either. Got dragged to see one of the recent shows and it was a fairly tedious affair. Blackie didn't even acknowledge the crowd until the whole album had been done.

Any chance of getting a copy too? I've only got the standard release as I'm going to wait for the inevitable "Tour edition"

Best of the broken is really dull. Takes ages to get anywhere and then goes nowhere. Really weak chorus too.. going to be a skipper I think.