Having borrowed the besto of the best from the ‘80s, Eclipse release an amazing album that will quiet easily top most of the “Best Hard Rock Album” lists this year.
It’s not that they do something new, or that they re-incenting music, on the contrary they are using old recipes, they follow clichés, they recycle… but, they do it well! Very well actually! Their weapon is Eric Martensson’s awesome voice, who performs amazingly in every second of every song, while the production is crystal clear, making the album sound huge, and so good that leaves no room for doubt.
The melodies stick to your mind instantly, the songs roll one after the other smoothly making you play the album again, and again, while every track is a potential highlight! What else do you really want to call an album “great”? I don’t think that “Bleed And Scream” lacks in anything, or that it has flaws. Sure, some will say that it reminds familiar stuff, and they even mention “Slip Of The Tongue”, but the truth is that looking for originality in meodic hard rock is harder than trying to figure out how many times David Coverdale said the word “love” in his life.
Personal favourites: “Battlegrounds”, “S.O.S.”, “Bleed And Scream”
