Lionsheart - Lionsheart (1992) (Japan Edition 1993)

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Lionsheart - Lionsheart (1992) (Japan Edition 1993)

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Lionsheart - Lionsheart (1992) (Japan Edition 1993)

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Year : 1992 (Japan Edition 1993)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Melodic Heavy Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 152 mb


Bio:

Lionsheart are a British hard rock/heavy metal band from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, formed in 1990. Founded by former Grim Reaper and Onslaught vocalist Steve Grimmett Lionsheart's early releases featured fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship that placed them as a major player in the NWOBHM subgenre.The band found initial success in Japan.Lionsheart has released four studio albums and one live album.Lionsheart was formed in the West Midlands in 1990 by former Grim Reaper and Onslaught vocalist Steve Grimmett, alongside twin musicians Mark and Steve Owers, formerly of Fury and Touche. Lionsheart with the addition of drummer Anthony Christmas and keyboardist Graham Collett soon released a set of demos coming from the classical rock mold. In 1992 the twins quit the band two shows into the Lillian Axe British/European tour, necessitating the recruitment of guitarists Nick Burr and Zakk Bajjon. The new lineup opened for Magnum on the British tour.While Lionsheart scored success in Japan on their first album, entitled Lionsheart, their follow-up album, Pride in Tact, achieved another success, selling over 100,000 copies in Japan. The band received a cold response from the British press and a lukewarm reaction from British rock fans. In spite of this, the band garnered a successful tour in 1995 with labelmates Tyketto. Anthony Christmas was replaced with Michael O'Brien at this time.Their third effort, Under Fire, took three years to emerge as legal battles with its record company waged on. Finally released in 1998, the album featured Grimmett and Tyketto guitarist Brooke St. James, Graham Collett and O'Brien. The sales were poor.At this time, Lionsheart folded and Grimmett founded Pride. In late 2000, Grimmett unveiled Seven Deadly Sins. Joining him on this venture was Collett, Eddie Marsh on bass and Peter Newdeck on drums.A live recording titled Rising Sons – Live in Japan 1993 emerged in 2000 via the Zoom Club label. Finding some new momentum, Lionsheart reformed and self-financed a new studio album, Abyss. It was recorded at the Warehouse Studio in Oxford throughout May and June 2003. Dallas, Texas based label Metaledge Records released this album digitally in June 2004 in North America, and Italian based label Frontiers released the album to the rest of the world. Lineup changes brought Gavin Cooper to the band in May.In late 2006 Grimmett unveiled his brand new Tewkesbury based band project, simply titled The Steve Grimmett Band, this unit involving guitarist Ian Nash, bassist Ritchie Walker and drummer Pete Newdeck. Album recordings were co-produced by Newdeck and Pink Cream 69 bassist Dennis Ward.In July 2008 Grimmett was announced as fronting the Fargo, North Dakota heavy metal band Grimmstine, assembled by Methuselah and Dozer guitarist Steve Stine in union with the Sons of Poseidon rhythm section of bassist Hat and drummer Dave Johnson. The latter also has credits with Denied By Christ and Methuselah.

Album:

This first album “Lionsheart” released in 1992, a great slice of traditional hard rock in a sound & style that many mention as ‘the record Whitesnake should have been putting out after their 1987 album’.Formed by ex- Grim Reaper vocalist Steve Grimmett alongside twins Mark and Steve Owers (guitar, bass), Lionsheart’s debut album came out in 1992 but could well have been released in 1988 as the songs are pretty much written to the Whitesnake template. And we have here some awesome songs very good playing, believe me.And you can tell the Whitesnake comparison on songs like ‘World Of Pain’ and ‘Stealer’, as it also is when Grimmett croons “baby, baby, baby” in his most deliciously comparable David Coverdale tones.At other times, there’s a distinct DIO flavour, as with the consecutive songs ‘Ready Or Not’ and ‘So Cold’, the latter which would easily have fitted on the Rainbow debut.But there’s more, much more: perhaps the best songs on the CD appear at the middle of the album, which are simply quite awesome: ‘Can’t Believe’, despite ripping off Whitesnake’s ‘Love Ain’t No Stranger’ at the beginning, mutates into a superb Melodic Rocker with a chorus right out of Jack Ponti’s top drawer.‘Living In A Fantasy’ is unlike anything else on the album; pure Fifth Angel with drums and guitars in a frantic race to the finishing line.However, it’s the six-minute plus massive epic ‘Portrait’ that is the album’s piece-de-resistance; atmospheric opening and stabbing orchestral strings followed by riffing and squealing torn straight from Dokken’s prime years. Grimmett is simply immense here, whilst Mark Owers gives all those ‘famous’ guitarists a run for their money.If only record company politics and personal issues hadn’t ripped the band apart after this, who knows what delights we would have been served.As it was, Grimmett carried on the Lionsheart name for several more releases before branching out on his own, while the Owers brothers dropped out of sight before resurfacing briefly in 2009 with The Pyschics but are now dipping their toes back into the music scene with the female fronted goth act Danze Macabre.For fans of classic-era Whitesnake, Rainbow and Dio this is a must buy. Derivative in places, sure, but never less than thoroughly entertaining, and at times simply mind-blowingly awesome.

Line Up:

Steve Grimmett – vocals - See also: Grimmstine, Steve Grimmett, Steve Grimmett's Grim Reaper, The Sanity Days, ex-Medusa, Lionsheart, ex-Onslaught, ex-Chateaux, ex-Friction, ex-Seven Deadly Sins, ex-Grim Reaper
Mark Owers – guitars
Steve Owers – bass
Graham Collett – keyboards
Anthony Christmas – drums

Tracklist:

01. Had Enough 4:42
02. World Of Pain 4:50
03. Ready Or Not 3:25
04. So Cold 5:35
05. Can't Believe 3:50
06. Portrait 6:42
07. Living In A Fantasy 4:06
08. Stealer 3:59
09. All I Need 4:35
10. Have Mercy 4:00
11. Going Down 3:25
12. Good Enough 4:19
13. In The Night (Bonus Track)


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