SILENT RAGE – Shattered Hearts +1 [Retrospect Records remaster] Out Of Print

SILENT RAGE‘s debut album “Shattered Hearts” is another essential record in your Melodic Hard Rock / AOR collection, requested by one of you in its remastered reissue including a new recorded track produced, as the whole album, by legend Paul Sabu.

Based in Los Angeles, Silent Rage formed way back in 1985 and soon resulted picked up by Melodic Rock craftsman Paul Sabu whom would go on to provide some songwriting, as well as production, mix & engineering for this much overlooked debut album “Shattered Hearts”.
Sabu helped to shape Silent Rage’s sound in the American Melodic Hard Rock / AOR style of the second half of the ’80s, much in the vein of his own band from the era; Only Child.

The album opens with the punchy ‘Rich Young And Pretty’, followed by one of my favorites, the AORish ‘Rebel With A Cause’. This track was later re-recorded by Silent Rage for their second effort but this original version has a special magic.
You can hear Sabu’s touch in title track ‘Shattered Hearts’, as well as on ‘Fight For Rock’, some kind of a hair metal anthem.

“Sarina” is a super melodic rock tune with a sing-along chorus, and ‘Make It Or Break It’ has a commercial hit single potential if it would have been properly promoted.
‘Goodnight Lorraine’ is true US AOR 1987, same with ‘You’re Not The First One’ plenty of keys, and another fav of mine, the excellent ‘Some Kind Of Woman’.

An underrated US Melodic Hard Rock / AOR album that should be placed higher in everyone’s ‘best of the ’80s’ list, Silent Rage’s “Shattered Hearts” is full of the powerful hooks, huge choruses and gang backing vocals that made this genre so beloved.
This is a very good remastered reissue (including as bonus the new track ‘Soul Survivor’), unfortunately now out of print but still you can find remaining copies on some selected stores.
HIGHLY Recommended

01 – Rich, Young And Pretty
02 – Rebel With A Cause
03 – Shattered Hearts
04 – Sarina
05 – Fight For Rock
06 – Make It Or Break It
07 – Good Night Lorraine
08 – Wanting You
09 – She Can Shake It
10 – You’re Not The First One
11 – Some Kind Of Woman
BONUS TRACK:
12 – Soul Survivor

Jesse Damon – lead vocals, guitar
Mark Hawkins: guitar, backing vocals
E.J. Curcio: bass, vocals
Rodney Pino: drums
Paul Sabu: guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Engineered, Mixed & Produced by Paul Sabu

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www.amazon.com/Shattered-Hearts-Silent-Rage/dp/B0024AJC9Y