Year : 1986 (30th Anniversary Edition 2016)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR , Melodic Heavy Metal
Country : Italy
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 157 mb
Bio:
Elektradrive is one of the most significant Hard Rock - A.O.R. bands to emerge from Italy.At the very start, in 1983, the name of the band was Overdrive and they had a four-piece line up without keyboards; after one year they added the keyboards and became Elektradrive.Elektradrive's debut single 'Let it Survive' was released on 1984 by Smoko Records. Elektradrive were featured, in the same year on the compilation 'HM Eruption' with the song 'Lord of the Rings', and in the compilation 'Metallo Italia' with 'Winner' the year after. In 1985 the band produced a videoclip for 'Winner'.Elektradrive's debut full length album, 'Over The Space' was released in 1986 via Discotto Records followed by a three months national tour.The most famous - and widely appreciated - album by Elektradrive, 'Due', was released in 1989 via Minotauro. 'Due' received excellent feedback from the international press, including 5K's on Kerrang Magazine from Dave Reynolds (at the same time, Whitesnake's Slip of the Tongue received 3K's.In the same year Elektradrive played with Manowar at Palasport Torino. An intensive international tour followed.Elektradrive's third album 'Big City' was released by Dracma Records in 1993. 'Big City' was reviewed by many as album of the month.In 1994 'Due' and 'Big City' were distributed in Japan by EMI/Toshiba and in Europe by Long Island Records.After almost ten years of silence, in 2004, Elektradrive start writing songs for a new album: the line up now back to the four original members but without keyboards.Elektradrive's great new album is 'Living 4', masterpiece that took the band three years of hard work for the writing and recording process.'Living 4' is a mature concept album of modern-classy and bluesy-AOR with committed lyrics about environment, corporations, water scarcity and general concerns on the state of our planet.The album was released early in 2009 and gained rave reviews in Italian and European music magazines.The band is now touring, with gigs in the most important Italian cities, and played some festivals with Bonfire.
Album:
ELEKTRADRIVE is one of the more significant Hard Rock / AOR bands to emerge from Italy. At the very start, in 1983, the name of the band was Overdrive and they had a classic four-piece line up; after one year they added the keyboards and became ELEKTRADRIVE.The band’s most well known work is their late ’80s second album, but this 1986 debut LP is a very good slice of European hard rock too. Escape Music did this really cool “Over The Space [30th Anniversary Edition]” remastered reissue in 2016, now back on print.Elektradrive’s debut full length album ‘Over The Space’ was released via Discotto Records followed by a three months national tour. It was fully appreciated by many European critics, like legendary Dave Reynolds from “Metal Forces” and Kerrang!! magazine who gave them 90/100 score.Apart from being remastered with a warm sound recalling the original vinyls, this reissue include some really hard to find material, on digital for the first time. We find Elektradrive’s debut single ‘Let it Survive’ was released on 1984 by Smoko Records. Both the single and ita B-side are part of the bonuses. Additionaly there’s fine demos (our favorite ‘You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll / Demo 1985) and a live recording from the tour presenting ‘Over The Space’.The band’s style then was a sort of hard/heavy rock similar at the sound of Pretty Maids / Ozzy Osbourne / Michael Schenker Group, but with a nice presence of keyboards synth sounds on it.
Line-Up:
Elio Maugeri - Vocals
Simone Falovo - Guitar
Stefano Turolla - Bass
Alex Jorio - Drums
Eugenio Manassero - Keyboards
Production:
Arranged By – Elektradrive
Liner Notes – Simone Falovo
Lyrics By – Maugeri* (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 11, 13 to 17), Falovo* (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 11, 13 to 17)
Music By – Elektradrive
Photography By – Peo Armellino
Producer – Beppe Crovella, Elektradrive
Remastered By – Simone Falovo
Tracklist:
01. Intro: Beginning
02. Secret of the Holy Grave
03. Time Machine
04. Fortune Teller
05. Lord of the Rings
06. Snake (Slip On…)
07. Against the Stream
08. Take Off
09. … Over the Space
10. Song for a Feeling
11. Clash of Tytans
12. Midnight Passage
13. Let It Survive (1984 single) (Bonus Track)
14. Brainstorm (1984 single B-side) (Bonus Track)
15. Ridin’ with the Wind (Demo 1983, as Overdrive) (Bonus Track)
16. You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll (Demo 1985) (Bonus Track)
17. Against the Stream (Live 1986) (Bonus Track)
Tracks 13 & 14 from Let It Survive.
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