Release Info:
RLSDATE: 2026/04/25 RTLDATE: 2026/02/27
GENRE: Rock SiZE: 504 MB
SOURCE: CD RUNTiME: 58:38
RiPPER: EAC 1.8 ENCODER: FLAC 1.5
DRiVE: ASUS SW-16D1X-U ORiGiN: Japan
RELEASE: Avalon MICP-11991
MATRiX: IFPI L244 MICP-11991 1W IFPI 7011
with log/cue/nfo/m3u/sfv/300 dpi scans.
KNAC (dot) com adds. . .
The first song, "When The Cold Wind Blows," starts off slow and
heavy and then quickly picks up the pace after a minute in.
Musically and lyrically, it's a Power Metal song. "When the cold
wind blows, frozen hearts will slow, and the nights go on forever.
Stories will be told, ghostly tales of old, join our hands and come
together." A great opening track.
Second track, "Death Of Me," is a mid paced song about old age,
told in a humorous way. It sounds very close to Cheap Trick.
Third track, "Different Kind Of Woman," starts off with Matt Starr
on drums and sounds very eighties and right off the Sunset Strip.
Fourth track, "If I Was King," is another one of my favorite
tracks. This song will be stuck in your head after one listen. A
great melody and chorus. "If I was a king, I would make a change
and I would try to sweep you off your feet and make you queen."
Fifth track, "Shakedown," is an eighties sounding hard rock song
with a fast lead by Reb Beach which fades out at the end.
Sixth track, "The Fire And The Flame," is another one of my
favorite tracks. A fast paced song that would fit right into a
Whitesnake album. Reb Beach has two lead breaks in this song. The
middle and the end.
Seventh track, "I'm Ready," starts off with Reb Beach on one of the
slower tracks on the album. This is another song that would fit
perfectly on a Whitesnake album. It also has a bit of a Bad Company
feel to it. (I'm Ready For Love)
Eighth track, "Paralyzed," reminds me of Time Machine from Black
Sabbath. It’' also my favorite song on the album. This song will
stay with you after the first listen. The chorus has a great hook.
"I feel so numb, my senses overcome, I think I might be paralyzed.
Feel no pain, it's so hard to explain. I'm just to dumb to realize,
I'm paralyzed." The song fades out at the end. I wish it would've
gone on for another couple of minutes.
Track nine, "Carry On," is another fast song with a great lead by
Reb Beach with lots of tremolo.
Tenth track, "Battered And Bruised," starts slow with lots of
groove. This song reminds me of Steel Dragon. If you've seen the
movie Rock Star, you'll know what I mean. Lots of wah wah pedal
from Reb Beach in this song.
Eleventh and final track, "What The Future Holds," is another
groove song that's mid paced. The chorus, "I'll cross my heart with
silver and I'll tell you what the future holds."
This is a solid hard rock album. For fans of traditional and
eighties metal and hard rock in general. Recommended.
Ripper's Notes:
There's something rotten in the state of Italy, and it's Frontiers
Records and Alessandro Del Vecchio.
Now, don't get me wrong, I very much appreciate them being one of
the few labels out there fighting the good fight to keep melodic
rock alive. That being said, most of their releases are pretty
bad.
Frontiers doesn't seem to sign bands that have formed naturally,
organically. They like to put together 'super groups' all under
the heavy control of songwriter and keyboardist Alessandro Del
Vecchio.
The problem with this, is few of their releases sound like real,
organic bands. They sound like cover's albums, but you just don't
know the originals. The songs don't quite fit with the bands
performing them.
And then came Black Swan. They were something different from the
start. Their debut "Shake The World" was a solid stand out from
the pack, but still had Del Vecchio dragging it down.
Their follow up, "Generation Mind" was the first Frontiers release
(at least that I heard) that actually sounded like a BAND. The
band clearly had the time to get to know each other's strengths,
and wrote to them. It's easily the best album on the label, and my
personal album of the year for 2022.
Thinking so highly of "Generation Mind" made me very excited, yet
extremely cautious, to listen to "Paralyzed." Could the live up to
the hype I've set up in my own mind?
"Paralyzed" is a much more diverse album than the first two, so
so that I just called it a "Rock" album as opposed to hard rock or
heavy metal. Those genre are represented, of course, but this
album breaks thru those self imposed boundaries.
Is it as good as "Generation Mind?" No, I don't think so, but it's
still an excellent record, and I'm not in any way disappointed.
And, Alessandro Del Vecchio is nowhere to be seen.
(anyone still reading?)
Why did I pick that antiseptic KNAC review? Well, the reviewer
compares one of the tracks to Cheap Trick, which I did back when
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