One of the gravestones along the path of melodic rock/AOR is the one that reads: “Lionsheart, great & promising, didn't amount to nothing, a pity, R.I.P.” or something of that order. Their 1993 debut received some great critical acclaim by both fans & critics but...well, nothing happened,really. Exit Lionsheart. Look for the album, it's definitely worth it.
Lionsheart had identical twin brothers Mark & Steve Owers on guitar and they are the core of this new band The Psychics. Mark still plays the lean & mean guitar while brother Steve has changed to singing. And what a discovery he is! The man sounds like Coverdale but double the soul & and minus the wailing. And Mark, well, he's simply a new guitar-hero in waiting. The riffs are flashing & bouncing all over the place like the last 20 years never happened and boy, can he shred when necessary.
The songs and by extension the album is one of the strongest melodic rock albums I have had the pleasure of hearing in a long time. It blows practically everybody out of the water and we're speaking about a debut. Why these guys waited for 15 years to (again) present their combined talent to the world is beyond me. Anyway, it's here now although we had to wait a year longer than Japan, where this was released in 2008. I only hope that the format you can buy now isn't the same as the one I got because that is one of those blue cd-r-discs with a sticker on top. If you're going to send a copy to a reviewer, please make it a proper one!
Anyway, influences range from vintage House Of Lords over Whitesnake to early Thunder, combined with some Lynch Mob for good measure. Just listen to the glorious chorus of 'Time We Tried Again' or the fabulous flexing of the muscles on the guitar in instrumental closer 'Dream Man'.
Two words: amazing & awesome. In whatever order. No, make it 3 and add 'Buy' to that! (
KVK)
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WOLF 359
Gloobey thanks for all the help with this cd matey, review in new issue of Fireworks.
Oh by the way this is a great album.
Jez
Very cool 'Old School' bombastic Brit hard rock in the vein of Whitesnake, Led Zep and Thunder. Some really tasty guitars on this and a very consistent disc with it's 10 quality tracks. This is a band that are definitley gonna be worth keeping an eye on for sure.
Nick C
Nice...I love it when an album lives up to everything you've heard about it and expected. After hearing/seeing Portent on Youtube it had to be bought. Would the rest of the album live up to that song?? .....yeah.....dead easy.
Massive guitars excellent songs, vocals..everything.
An album that'll find you sneaking over to the volume control every minute or so to turn it louder.
Shake the roof tiles off!!
Noilleh
About time, the world has been waiting with it's breath held to see if the Owers Twins would produce another album and this one is absolutely worth the wait. It's nothing like the melodic Lionsheart album this is a back to basics guitar licks with more shred than Robertsons marmalade combined with some of the classiest singing I've heard in a long while, Steve is on the road to becoming one of the classic rock voices.
There is someing for everyone on this cd, straigh ahead anthemic rock such as 'We Rock' to the very classy rock opus 'Portent' to the atmospheric 'Here comes the Rain'.
The world has waited a long time for this album but it was absolutely worth the wait, Lady Luck has not played fair with these two brothers in the past, she's a fickle witch, but this is all set to change.
I agree with KVK Amazing, awesome BUY!
YNGWIEVIKING
The OWERS bros are F****g back with a huge release in my top 10 for sure !
Guitar player Mark is truly amazing with old fashion licks and also high tech new chops, SHREDDING with beautiful melodies and a lot of class !
His brother STEVE is also a fantastic singer !
Like WHITESNAKE/earlyTHUNDER/LED ZEP
CLASSIC BRITISH HARD ROCK at it's BEST
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Gloobey
Sorry, Kris, the album is at manufacture as we speak and will be in stores from September 5th. Krescendo sent out CD-Rs just so people could get a head start on what is - and I have been saying this for a very long while - the album of the year.
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