Herewith some albums that made my year 2023 kick off better.
The Enigma Division - The Enima Division
Startig of with the first big surprise of 2023. This Progressive metal band holds in Conor McGouran someone you might know from Xerath. This album is a very interesting blend of progressive metal with here and there very accesible melodic rock parts in their songs. While the first seven songs present a very interesting album, The closing epic yet adds a surprising finish. A 20 minute instrumental with some spoken word samples. On paper maybe not that interesting for some, but in reality one of the highlights of the album. Mentioning highlights, the full album is one really. Recently the band asked which songs they should play live. I suggested the full album at a certain festival in Baarlo later this year. Sure they would go down like a storm there with music like this.
Electric Mob - 2 Make U Cry & Dance
Electric Mob are from Brazil. This is their second album released on Frontiers Records. And still I never heard of them before reading a review on this album in Aardschok. There namedropping Badlands made me check them out. Well that was a surprise. Catchy as Dengue in a moist Brazilian summer this band gives us 11 songs that make you cry og joy & dance indeed. I would not expect this kind of melodic metal coming out of Brazil. So apart from extreme and power metal Brazil can give us top quality melodic metal as well. Frontiers please bring this band to Europe, as I saw a clip of a live show and that sounded as good.
Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour
Uriah Heep are now over 50 years running and still going extremely strong. This album is bookended by short and sweet songs (read fast) Save Me Tonight and Closer to Your Dreams. Inbetween we have the classic Heep sound where some songs can proudly stand next to their best work of the seventies. For me Uriah Heep are the best band who started this beautiful musical genre of us (over Black Sabbath, Purple and Led Zep) they also are the band that still releases albums that can bring me enormous (not big) joy. Any lover of melodic Hard rock should listen to this album once and my bet is that most will buy it thereafter (ignoring teh spotify crowd here) Hope that I am around this time, when they tour their latest album.
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