From that same package again (Atomic Stuff – see reviews of SilentLie, Hypnotechnicall, and Echotime) comes the sophomore album by this Ljubljana based 4-piece Slovenian Melodic Heavy Rock act, which was founded back in 2003.
As with many starting bands, the line-up went through some changes at first, and found its first stability with singer/ guitarist Marko Erjavec, guitarist Tomo Jurca, bassist/ backing singer Davorin Kovacic, and drummer Andrej Obranovic. In spite of the line-up problems, the band gigged on a regular basis, even did several tours in their home country, and this in turn lead to media appearances and a series of videos...even prior to the band's releasing of its debut album in 2007. Following the release, the line-up again went through several changes, first as the drummer left and needed replacement, then again when the band started experimenting through the addition of a keyboardist. In early 2011 current drummer Vid Zgonc joined the band, and soon after the guys started recording sessions for the new album, supervised by renowned Slovenian producer Dejan Radicevic. A video for the first single “Nobody Cares” was already released in late 2012.
As mentioned above, the band's music is a Melodic Hard Rock with Metal affinities, and an even better way to describe it would be to say that influences from the '80s are brought with modern production. The label puts it as follows : “Although the band's main influences lay mainly in the heroic age of Hard Rock, their goal is not to dwell on the past, but to paraphrase and reinvent the best aspects of that era, putting the melody and power back in the music,” and the band itself said, in a recent interview, “The global Rock scene still hasn't completely recovered from the blow of the complaining and depressive chords of the nineties, so we're trying to spread the sweet smell of Rock 'n' Roll as much as possible...in a nutshell it could be said that we are still waiting for the next revolution, because it's been darn too long since the last one.”! Of course, the “revolution” meant here is a resurgence of a certain style of music on a global level, but...I wonder...do these guys understand that each “revolution” (as they call it) was actually instigated by the music industry, the corporate type of bloodsuckers who understood that, in order to keep bleeding musicians dry, they needed to put yet another “type” of “genre” at the forefront? And, do they understand that, these days, the influence of the major labels has waned quite a bit...to the point that they only sign whatever band is doing big right now, and do not even bother to promote these bands anymore? In other words, the music “industry” has undergone quite a change, wherein major companies simply follow whatever trend there is, and do not bother anymore to put money into promotion of their articles, nor in the favouring of any one genre!
Ach, getting back to this band's music, I find that almost every song has the inclusion of some nice keyboard lines, in spite of no one being credited for it. The music already having been typified above, I'll just add that the vocals are quite passable, and although this is the first album by the band which was done completely in English, you'd swear the guys never talked any other language at all! For your (audio) introduction to the band, you'll have to make due with the two songs posted at the label's music player, found at (www.) streetsymphonies.com. There may be more at the band's MySpace page (but as you know, I am unable to view what's on there, and cannot confirm either way). At (www.) stoneorange.com, you'll also find a link to what's available by the band at YouTube.