Artist: Tara's Secret 
   Title: Tomorrow The World
   Label: Black Cat Music

Hailing from Burton On Trent Tara’s Secret are a melodic rock five piece who were brought up on classic rock as it should be, and they have taken these influences and put them together with their own sound to come up with 'Tomorrow The World'.

I got a sneak preview of this album some time ago when I received a copy of 'Drive Me Home/In The Movies' and I must say that the bands full length release is a whole lot better than I first imagined it would be, the production for one is faultless.

The album itself is pure Melodic Rock in true blue British style, with the undoubted highlights being the extraordinary talent of Johnny Trowbridge on vocals, whose voice was made for this genre.

The album opens up with the Journey-esq ‘Drive Me Home’, a track that I must say sounds a lot more polished than I recall and gets the album off to a fantastic start.

The album continues its melodic rock path with ‘I Believe’, a little more bite to this one with the excellent guitar work from Richard Beardsley.

Things slow down to more gentile pace with ‘Summer Days’ before things pick up once more with ‘King Of Meville’, a track that really brings out the Meat Loaf like tones in Trowbridge’s vocals.  ‘The Storm Inside’ is pure melodic rock at its finest with its soaring guitar solo’s and its mid tempo rhythm section.

‘Love Shy’ is a slow burner of a track that meanders along with the usual simmering melodic rock style, a track that you feel that it's about to explode into a throng of overwhelming guitars and searing vocals, but alas this never comes.  The same however cannot be said about ‘Train Of Love’, as this one rocks from the off and continues throughout the entire track, and for this one thing only it makes it one of my favourite tracks off the album.

‘In Movies’ is the second track off the album I had heard before and once again sounded a whole lot better this time.  The guitars have been beefed up and Trowbridge’s vocals have that Meat Loaf sound again.  Maybe I’m mistaken but either the whole track has been given a lift, or I’m warming to the band by this stage of the album.

Another piece of pure British melodic rock is the masterful sounds of ‘Shepherd’s Warning’, a track that any melodic rock band would be proud of.  I can imagine this being an immense piece live.

The same can be said about the next track ‘Final Secret’, a track that starts of slowly but soon builds into a flurry of guitars and bass, all backed by Trowbridge’s fantastic vocals.  Another track where Trowbridge really shines is ‘Fantasy Girl’.

The album closes on a very sombre note with ‘The Light’, a track that starts off with an acoustic guitar and builds into a fantastic ballad which rounds of a quite surprising album, for me at least.  My suggestion to the band is that they try for the very lucrative Japanese or European markets where this type of good melodic rock is still very much appreciated.

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