Naked - End Game

[Stefan]

Release Date: 20 November 2015
Catalogue Number: ESM283


From Escape Music:

Naked was founded in early 2000 by Mats Stattin, and along with Peter he has been influenced by Rock bands of the 1980’s, in particular, Kiss, Along with Mats and Peter the line-up is completed by Tony Borg (Alien), Mikael Wikman Drums, and a well-respected Bass player Paul Logue (Eden’s Curse) as a special guest!

This quartet have come up with an album chock full of surprises that will appeal to fans of Scandinavian Hard Rock such as Treat, Alien, and Skagarack.

Naked do have their own identity and this shines through on the 12 tunes on offer here. Razor sharp riffs, layered keyboards and soaring vocals are the order of the day, all backed with a solid rhythm section, the sort you would expect from musicians of this calibre, a melodic rock dream!!

It’s really nice to see a new band rise up and inject a fresh slant on the melodic rock music scene; we think that you will warm to Naked in a very positive manner as they certainly have the ability to make their mark. This debut “End Game” is a great start to achieving their goal.


The band is:

Peter Sundvall – Lead and Backing vocals
Mats Stattin – Rhythm Guitar
Tony Borg – Lead Guitar, Keyboard Arrangements (Alien)
Paul Logue - Bass (Eden’s Curse)
Shuji Matsumoto – Fretless Bass on “End Of Eternity”
Mikael Wikman – Drums
Pete Newdeck - Backing vocals and Piano on “End Of Eternity”
Jennie Jahns – guest vocals on Duet “end of eternity”


Tracklist:

1 .SILVERTHORN
2. AIM FOR THE HEART
3.BLOOD OF MY BLOOD
4.LEAVING YOU TONIGHT
5.BORN TO LIVE FOR LOVE
6.VICTORIA AVENUE
7.END OF ETERNITY
8. SETTING SAILS
9.STILL IN LOVE
10.THE GREAT WAR
11.LOVE AINT NO GAME
12.DESTINATION UNKNOWN


Preview: http://www.escape-music.com/coming.htm

[The Rocker]

Sounds good

[Geoff]

Oh yes please. Sounds like typical old school Scandi AOR / melodic rock. Very nice.

[lettard]

Nice stuff indeed

[KarpetRydOFunk]

Sounds like the Scandi AOR we all fell in love with. I hope the rest holds up.

[Dead Planet]

Wow what an excellent song....if the rest of the release is as good then it will be my top release of the year....

[Stefan]

Samples: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016XD496S/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp

[phaffas]

This is a nice album. Nice. Thats about it though - just dont think it will stack up after time.

 

It is very nice. Reminds me of Talon. Fantastically melodic.

Edited December 7, 2015 by phaffas

[Geoff]

Yeah, I'd agree. Not so much on the Talon thing; I think they're a bit better than that. But I'd call it nice and leave it at that too. This reminds me a lot of the Reach CD from this year. They're both good solid young bands with some good touches, but I can't really see either album standing the rest of time. Nice albums, both of them.

[Delbert]

Been hearing a lot of good vibes on this one.....my copy just arrived today in the mail, so I'm anxious to give it a good listen this afternoon.

[Thomas/Coastline]

Have to say I like this album (and Scandi AOR) and I've always liked Tony Borg's guitar playing.

[Geoff]

'Aim for the heart' and 'Still in love' are great.

[Stefan]

 

 

[Stefan]

[CureTheSane]

Holy shit, I swear I thought it was a female singer until I got to the clip above.

Very ambiguous voice.

Not really my cup of tea, but not bad.

[Stefan]

Petri Vehviläinen (of Swedish Idol fame) was the singer in an early incarnation of Naked. I wonder if his alcohol problems led to his departure..?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Geoff]

On 4/14/2017 at 6:57 AM, Stefan said:

Petri Vehviläinen (of Swedish Idol fame) was the singer in an early incarnation of Naked. I wonder if his alcohol problems led to his departure..?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shame these never got a proper recording. I like.