HITTEN – Twist Of Fate (2018)

Formed in Spain seven years ago, HITTEN play traditional hard rock / metal that fans of the ’80s heyday will love. Even their logo and cover art of their new album “Twist Of Fate” are unashamedly straight out of the Eighties.
Also, the title “Twist Of Fate” is anything but casual. We’ve listened to Hitten’s 2 previous albums, but while fine, these were too much pedestrian NWOBHM oriented and repetitive.
The boys seem to have been aware of this issue and decided to give another focus to their creative guidelines, a ‘twist’ indeed, and now their songs are much more melodic and catchy.

Additionally, Hitten hired a new vocalist in Alex Panza, much more a ‘tenor rock’ vocalist than metallic. His pipes fit the new material with ease.
Although there’s still traditional, classic ’80s metal inspired songs like ‘Final Warning’, title track ‘Twist of Fate’ (akin Impelliteri) or ‘Evil Within’, the rest of the material is clearly infused by hard rock groove and melodic riffs.

‘Flight to Freedom’ is straight from the Keel songbook, while ‘On The Run’ is pure hard rock with some British feel circa 1985 (Tygers Of Pan Tang, Tokyo Blade, etc).

Perhaps the song where Hitten more radically twisted their sound is ‘In the Heat of the Night’, a melodic hard rocker with a Dokken-esque feeling but with their own imprint (check the video-track).

I hope Hitten continue in this vein: the classic ’80s hard rock / metal-with-melody suits ’em very well as heard in “Twist Of Fate”. New vocalist is very good, potent, clear, and production has been refined to round up an entertaining slice of Eighties rockin’ stuff.
Highly Recommended

01 – Take It All
02 – Final Warning
03 – Twist of Fate
04 – Flight to Freedom
05 – Svccvbvs (This is the Acoustic One)
06 – Evil Within
07 – On the Run
08 – In the Heat of the Night
09 – Rocking out the City
10 – Heroes

Alex Panza – Vocals
Johnny Lorca – Guitars
Dani – Guitars
Mr. C – Bass
Juancar – Drums

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