BATTLE BEAST – No More Hollywood Endings [Digipak +2] (2019)

Finnish power metal pop sextet BATTLE BEAST will release their fifth album, “No More Hollywood Endings”, on March 22, 2019, a 13-song disc produced & mixed by the band’s keyboardist Janne Björkroth.
As happened with their previous album, “No More Hollywood Endings” is heavy on catchiness, an addictive and quite creative mix of 80s synth, pop, rock, and metal.

If you like this kind of musical mix, you’ll find in the band’s 5th album “‘No More Hollywood Endings” Battle Beast at their best: the heavy songs are heavier, and the pop songs are so much more poppy, in a good way.
The musicianship of the entire CD is cohesive, powerful but also a bit mellow in places giving the listener the proper break to catch their breath between the most hard-hitting songs.

This album has everything you would expect from a band with as much energy as these guys have. However, the thing that shined the most to me is it feels like this record was an opportunity for Noora Louhimo’s voice to break through and deliver its raw power.

Noora has one of those very unique voices, it is raspy yet soulful and she knows exactly when to deliver a combination of each. This album seems to contain some bigger elements than the previous releases, with larger scores to some of the songs like the album’s opening track, ‘Unbroken’.

One of the highlights is actually one of the softest songs on the release, which is odd, because this record hits hard. ‘Bent and Broken’ is one of those powerful pop infected lite metal tunes that really allowed Noora’s range to shine through and create a very intoxicating atmosphere throughout the song’s four-minute length.

Overall this 13-track (11 in the regular version), 55-minute disc delivers everything you expect from Battle Beast: powerful hugely produced songs, catchy pop melodies with ’80-style synths, and metallic riffs.
It’s entertaining, fun, and pretty catchy, cleverly assembled and produced.
Highly Recommended

01 – Unbroken
02 – No More Hollywood Endings
03 – Eden
04 – Unfairy Tales
05 – Endless Summer
06 – The Hero
07 – Piece of Me
08 – I Wish
09 – Raise Your Fists
10 – The Golden Horde
11 – World on Fire
BONUS TRACKS:
12 – Bent and Broken
13 – My Last Dream

Noora Louhimo – Lead Vocals
Joona Björkroth – Guitars, Vocals
Juuso Soinio – Guitars
Eero Sipilä – Bass, Vocals
Janne Björkroth – Keyboards, Vocals
Pyry Vikki – Drums

Pre Order:
www.amazon.de/More-Hollywood-Endings-Battle-Beast/dp/B07MX2FNWV
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