Kotimainen melodista heavy rockia soittava Leverage viime vuonna paluun uudella EP:llä ”The Devil’s Turn”. Bändi julkaisee kokopitkän albumin “DeterminUs” huhtikuussa ja katsottavissa on avauskappaleen “Burn Love Burn” -lyriikkavideo. Levy on kaupoissa Frontiers-merkin kautta 26.4.2019.
Kitaristi Tuomas Heikkinen kommentoi:
The new album is the same but different. This is the way I write. It is heavy rock and draws from a variety of influences, mine or the other members. I used to make demos that had every bass, drum and keyboard note MIDI programmed to detail and then just asked the guys to reproduce that exactly, but now I only underline the passages that I feel are essential and let them have a go at expressing themselves as musicians. And just as importantly, I always try to hear the vocalist in my head when writing. Pekka and Kimmo are two different singers that definitely guides the process. People that have heard the music say that it definitely has the Leverage vibe, but also covers new ground. It has variety, ranging from pretty damn heavy to all kinds of far ends at times. This album sounds like a band playing and there’s movement where we didn’t use to have it. There’s less overdubs, not too many huge hired choirs, very little MIDI orchestrations and less tracks all together. Kimmo is a phenomenal and very versatile singer. He draws pictures in front of you the way he sings. He has a huge presence, both seen and heard and is not the most typical vocalist in this scene. He approaches each song as a short story and really throws himself in there. Mikko is a monster guitar player with a background of very heavy and complex metal with a band called Kiuas. It was like ”I am going to get him or Leverage will have only one guitar”. I am happy he wanted to join the band. I have been blessed to get to work with outstanding guitar players in Leverage, first with Torsti and now with Mikko. I’m really excited about all this, getting back to making Leverage music with a great group of people, old and new. And getting it out through a solid label to the fans.
Kansi ja kappalelista:
1. Burn Love Burn
2. Wind Of Morrigan
3. Tiger
4. Red Moon Over Sonora (album version)
5. Mephistocrate
6. Afterworld’s Disciple
7. When We Were Young
8. Heaven’s No Place For Us
9. Hand Of God
10. Rollerball
11. Troy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leverageofficial/
Leverage:
Kimmo Blom – laulu
Tuomas Heikkinen – kitara
Mikko Salovaara – kitara
Marko Niskala – koskettimet
Sami Norrbacka – basso
Valtteri Revonkorpi – rummut
Diskografia:
Fifteen Years / Marching to War –single, 2006
Tides, 2006
Follow Down That River –ep, 2007
Blind Fire, 2008
Circus Colossus, 2009
Red Moon Over Sonora -single, 2018
The Devil’s Turn EP, 2018
DeterminUs, 2019
Lähde: Frontiers