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Artist: Paradise Inc |
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Paradise
Inc are the latest South American band (Brazil to be exact) to hit the world of Melodic Hard Rock.
Together with
Mall favourite Carsten ‘Lizard’ Schulz leading the band with those
now famed pipes of his, who along with De Grigo (guitars), Marcos Peres
(guitars), Rick A (bass) and Allan Juliano (drums), are about to show the
European dominated Hard Rock scene that can hold their own with the
might of the Scandinavia and Germany bands in the same genre, with their
debut album ‘Time’. The
album also features a host of guest musicians with the likes of Paul
Logue (who also mixed and help produce the album) and Doogie White
heading the list ,along with Alessandro Del Velcchio, Luiz Sacoman and
Nat Lou, all contributing to what is a really great debut release. Things
get underway in emphatic style with the title track ‘Time (Live &
Learn)’ and from the off you can feel a sense of the high degree of
musicianship and song quality that the album has to offer, with Schulz
bringing those unmistakable melodic tones. The
great melody rich tunes continue with ‘Close Your Eyes’, a great
guitar orientated rocker that just rocks big style. A track that
also has to
be played at full volume to really feel appreciate it. After
the head hard rocking it's time to chill a little, with the more AOR
stylings of ‘Who’s Fooling Who’, a song penned by Logue himself.
This is pure ear candy and will touch base with fans of the genre for
sure, much as the next one will the superb
‘I Will Wait’. A slow burner that just oozes class,
with Schulz laying down a sultry vocal on this one. If this was 1980,
then this song would have
been labeled a Power Ballad. The
tempo and pace is picked up once more with the rocker ‘Wait And See’,
again a Logue penned song that will rock the very foundations of
the Melodic/Hard Rock fans, before the tempo is brought back down a beat
or two, with the AOR paced gem ‘No More Mistakes’ and then the
haunting tones of the mid paced ‘You’. It's
all systems go once more with the guitar and keyboard rich ‘Set Me
Free’, before what for me is one of the tracks off the album, the
stunning ‘Steel And Stone’. This one lends itself to an acoustic
version so well, so much so that an acoustic version has actually added as
the European
bonus track. But before that it's time for Doogie White to add his
vocal dexterity to the album on the excellent ‘Not In Paradise’,
again pure hard rock bliss. That
acoustic version of 'Steel And Stone’, featuring the female vocals of
Nat Lou, wraps up what is a great debut release that once again shows
that Brazil is becoming a Melodic/Hard Rock hot spot and it's not all
Sepultura and the like. |
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Tracklisting: 1. Time
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