HERICANE ALICE – Gotta Be Real (2020)
Do your remember hard rockers HERICANE ALICE? They released the kick ass ‘Tear The House Down’ back in 1990… well, the guys are back with the band’s long-awaited follow-up titled ‘Gotta Be Real‘.
30 years, yes, it’s a lot of time, bet let me tell you that Hericane Alice hasn’t lost an inch of their LA Hard Rock attack, and they sound exactly as this new album was done in 1991.
Outdated? Not at all if your like that classy melodic hard style, something many young acts try to re-capture with no success. Hericane Alice 2020 kills!
Hericane Alice is a band who were poised for success in the ’80s glam metal world with their major label debut ‘Tear The House Down’, but the timing was just “Too Late”, referring to the great song of the same name on this album.
They had the catchy songs, the sound, the looks, and a vocalist that was reminiscent of David Lee Roth, yet still came up short by arriving just a few years behind the hair metal tidal wave that marked the 80s music scene. I highly recommend this album to anyone who loves glam metal.
And believe it or not ‘Gotta Be Real’ sounds like a continuation of the first album, just if it was recorded in 1991 – how it should have happened.
‘Give Us What You’ve Got’, the catchy ‘Sex Drive’ and the bluesy hard ‘Women Will Eventually Rule’ sound and feels pure party hair metal, very well produced with that huge reverb sound from the late 80s.
Hericane Alice also offers a melodic hard rockin’ version of Deep Purple’s classic ‘Highway Star’, and succeeded.
Hericane Alice are back in full form, and before the current Covid-19 events they played several gigs and seems there’s more new material in the making.
Late 80s melodic glammy hard rock is alive 2020, and ‘Gotta Be Real’ delivers.
Highly Recommended
01 – Give Us What You’ve Got
02 – Sex Drive
03 – Women Will Eventually Rule
04 – Highway Star (Deep Purple cover)
05 – Gotta Be Real
06 – Ha Ha
Bruce Naumann – vocals
Danny Gill – guitar
Ian Mayo – bass
Jackie Ramos – drums
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