Year : 2013 (UK Edition)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Pop Glam Metal
Country : Finland
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 130 mb
Bio:
Reckless Love is a Finnish melodic glam metal band, founded 2001 in Kuopio, Finland. On February 2010, they released their eponymous debut album, which reached number 13 in the Finnish charts.The band started their career with the name Reckless Life, under which they initially played covers of Guns N' Roses. Having had no success with this approach, they began to write their own songs, and finally won the Kuopio Band Competition in 2004.As part of the Kuopio Popcity Project 2005, Reckless Love, along with Rainbow Crash, Svat and Sideshow Zombies went on a Scandinavian tour, visiting Sweden, Norway and Denmark.2007 saw Olli Herman (also known as H. Olliver Twisted) cover as the singer for the Swedish hair metal band Crashdïet, as their singer (Dave Lepard) committed suicide in January 2006. One and a half years later, Olli Herman returns to Reckless Love. In January 2009, the website of Reckless Love announced that drummer Mike Harley would leave the band. Hardly a week later a replacement was found: Hessu Maxx.The musical style of the band had undergone a major change over the years and, finally, on 23 April 2009, a record deal with Universal Music was made. In July 2009, Reckless Love released their first single, One More Time. In August, they reached number 2 in the 'YleX' radio station's charts in Finland. The second single, Beautiful Bomb, released on 15 October 2009, reached 4th. The band also shot a music video for this single, which premiered on MTV in December 2009. On 20 February 2010 the third single and second music video, Romance, was released. Four days later the debut album, Reckless Love, was released. This album was available in the Baltic States, Belgium and the UK, as well as in Finland. The Japanese version was released in July 2010. A release into the German and Swedish markets is still under discussion. The album debuted at number 13 in Finland's official charts.The band released their follow-up album, Animal Attraction, On October 5, 2011. The first single "Hot" was released on April 18, 2011 and the single "Animal Attraction" was released on September 12, 2011.The Animal Attraction Tour kicked off on October 7, 2011 The video for "On The Radio", which is the tenth track of their 'Animal Attraction' album, was filmed in Los Angeles, California.As of the 26th of April, 2013, Reckless Love's new single, "Night On Fire" is available to purchase and download, and there is a music video to support the song. Their latest album, called Spirit, will be available on September 2nd 2013 .
Album:
Finnish melodic rockers RECKLESS LOVE are working in a new album right now, meanwhile one of yous asked for their album “Spirit” with its extra tracks.The band has a headquarter based in Great Britain as well, and the band’s label subsidiary at the islands released “Spirit” including an exclusive bonus track for all the loyal UK fans.As extra we have here as well the standalone single ‘Night On Fire [bombastic edit]’ not available anymore.To the 11-track of the regular release, the UK CD version adds the exclusive extra track “Die Hard”, a flamboyant rocker driven by a contagious riff, gang backing vocals and a sharp solo recalling the early Reckless Love style (and mid-Eighties Motley Crue).Anyone can get the ’80ss look down if they try hard enough, but not many can write and play fine songs in this hard rock, melodic style. Reckless Love have nailed it for the most part in “Spirit”.Opening with lead single “Night On Fire” is a statement of intent. Blending some hypnotic, voodoo drums and turning some almost tribal chants into archetypal Eighties ‘whoa, whoa’ is just going to grab you.“Bad Lovin´” follows with more of those hit making tricks from the time when rock ruled the airwaves (‘na, na, na’ this time) and, yep, you’ve guessed it, it’s all about sex, in the Sunset Strip circa ’88 style.Track three sees Olli Herman make the claim “I Love Heavy Metal”. Here Reckless Love turf out a Tuff sounding classic for an all new generation of Finnish Hairband fans while name checking some classic acts along the way. It’s a cool melodic hard rocker recalling Warrant in its prime, with a very nice melody and one of my favorites on the disc.“Favorite Flavor” follows the theme – upbeat, joyous and with a pop-metal chorus as signature.The midtempo “Edge Of Our Dreams” adds some modernity to the album, but I prefer when Reckless Love push the pedal with sharp riffs, and this is not the case here.For example, next track “Sex, Drugs & Reckless Love” is a marching rocker driven by bouncy rhythms and harmonies, a simple song, but this is what you want to hear from this band, and they do it truly well.“Dying To Live” is a clean (guitars and rhythm section) rock song, again a bit modern, yet really effective. On “Metal Ass” they go for a fast, anthemic metallic tune which I like a lot, then “Runaway Love” is a fine melodic rocker with a contagious chorus.“So Happy I Could Die” is another fav of mine, one of these type of songs build for the arenas. Huge guitars, massive backing vocals and that ‘spirit’ which Reckless Love is searching for.The regular album ends with the only proper ballad; “Hot Rain”, a tale of heartbreak & loss well constructed, arranged and orchestrated faithful to the Eighties power ballad mould.With this album Reckless Love wanted to recapture the ’80s ‘Spirit’ with some really catchy tunes, the right attitude and excellent production. You have into the mix a couple of modern melodic hard tracks as well.A a solid, fun and enjoyable recording with a Sunset Strip atmosphere all over, spiced with a new wave of Scandinavian melodic hard rock styling.
Line Up:
Olli Herman - Lead & Backing Vocals
Jalle Verne - Bass, Backing Vocals
Pepe - Guitar, Harmonizer, Backing Vocals
Hessu Maxx - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals
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Ilkka Wirtanen - Keyboards
production:
A&R – Riku Mattila
Art Direction [Art], Design, Layout – Pasi Juhola
Mastered By – Pauli Saastamoinen
Music By – Ilkka Wirtanen, Pepe*
Photography By [Band Member Photos] – Rob Orthen
Photography By [Band Photos] – Ville Juurikkala
Producer – Ilkka Wirtanen
Recorded By [@ Finnvox Studios] – Risto Hemmi
Recorded By [@ Hip Studios] – Ilkka Wirtanen
Recorded By [Additional Vocal Recording] – Olli Herman
Words By – Olli Herman (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 12)
Recorded @ Finnvox Studios and @ Hip Studios
Additional vocal recording at Little Black Dragon Studios
Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 11 mixed @ Hip Studios
Tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 mixed @ Seawolf Studios
Mastered @ Finnvox
Tracklist:
01. Night On Fire (album version)
02. Bad Lovin’
03. I Love Heavy Metal
04. Favorite Flavor
05. Edge Of Our Dreams
06. Sex, Drugs & Reckless Love
07. Dying To Live
08. Metal Ass
09. Runaway Love
10. So Happy I Could Die
11. Hot Rain
12. Die Hard (UK Bonus Track)
13. Night On Fire [bombastic edit](Extra Bonus Track)
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