BLOODY HEELS – Rotten Romance (2022)
Hard rockers BLOODY HEELS are back next weekend with “Rotten Romance”, their third album overall, following their Frontiers debut, “Ignite The Sky” (2020).
While the band still shows nods to the great ‘80s hard rock scene in their sound, the new album presents a stylistic leap from the band that is delightfully unexpected and welcome. Not content to be stagnant in their musical approach, Bloody Heels have pushed their sound forward, proving that innovation within the confines of a genre is always possible when the will to push through barriers exists.
“Rotten Romance” will certainly please fans of the band’s previous work, where strains of classic ’80s hard rock were mixed with elements of trad metal (and that is still very much the case here), but touches of melodic prog, goth, and more modern rock are now identifiable in the mix and with particular results…