WESTBOUND : "Volume 01" , review. Frontiers, 2019

Tracklisting:

Never Surrender

Dance Of Life

Ain't Gonna Drown

Beautiful Dream

Nothing

Roll The Bones

On My Own

Keeper Of The Flame

Turn To You

No Room For Sympathy

The Traveller

This album couldn't pass unnoticed if its presents as behindhand genre either as traditional backward school from Los Angeles. Differs fronm the rest AOR genre releases,in regards trying to say amorous things ,indeed , expressed to its severe way, there are many many blues grooves that strengthen riffs and bring past cults to timeliness..

Roy-Z wanted to make some style European hard-rock, not so mutch tight and crunchy like the Judas Priest way of sound not either American AOR,he focused to oldschool english heavy, some notes copied from Zeppelin up to Tygers of Pan Tang, and many imitations from Mickey Moody;s whitesnake era, something like that,so create the "Volume 1" album with Chas in microphone

AINT GONNA DOWN: a spoiled darling Chas West is a high pitched tenor nervous guy who makes bass refrains the global hear is mutch beat (rhythm), thanks that they follow whitesnake genre ,as and Steelheart and LA Guns regards the way of playing

BEAUTIFUL DREAM a sonourus idle heavybeat, slow moving but steady

raise in tough way___and addition of team choruses from the rest members at refrains___the outstanding guitar perform with great long solos and anger leads, a sensational lovesong in blues way

DANCE OF lIFE :___Sounds as "mid tempo" pace of the beat ,an exaltation one leading track of all album, contains and some kind of social message, where showed as an indispensable part from Chas West who exaltate song up, from the other side Roy-Z with his mean enraging guitar bump basic melody and create song's cruelty, while lyrics topic is about some existencial matter.

KEEPER OF THE FLAME : The track showcase for album's rest songs, a grandioso steady rhythmic melody ,where showed the imperial mean of Chas West ,that has adopted from Whitesnake's Coverdale ,or acting like Fred Mercury's moove, composition based on a steady beat melody,and Roy's Z crunch guitar could not be missed as a fixed track strong reefs to turn on audiences.

NEVER SURENDER: a good potential song, Roy's Z guitar is crunchy one and tight,reminds Bon Jovi;s early albums , topic is somewhat like anthemic orders to vigorous bums out in pavement,Chas voice fascinates.

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