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“Hear Now” is the debut solo album by MICK DEVINE, vocalist of UK’s AOR / Melodic rockers Seven (7). Seven suffered from label shenanigans in the early 90s and it was only some years later that they released new music. Back to the here and now and we have a solo album from Mick, where he is joined Steve Morris...
SEVEN are back tomorrow with the release of “Shattered“, the follow-up to their really good comeback album appeared two years ago. That record used a number of name guests including Adam Wakeman and Mike Slammer, this time around it is more a band affair with Lars Chriss producing, plus playing drums and guitars.
The band’s main focus though is vocalist Mike Devine who uncannily sounds like Lou Gramm at times – listening to ‘Fight’ you’d think it was Gramm-era Foreigner.
The previous album had a fair few keys, this time around the keyboards / synths are set to max and there are two keyboardists – Frederik Bergh (Street Talk) and Kay Buckland – to cope with the ivory overload!
And here comes the best part; the songs on “Shattered” are far superior co-written by the likes of Jeff Paris and Andy Loos (ex Swedish AORsters Glory) who also play bass here.
Let’s check some of the more interesting upcoming releases via these advanced singles.Two celebrated melodic hard rock / AOR acts return with brand new albums of Frontiers Music soon: HARDLINE whom just released the fist advanced single ‘Where Will We Go From Here’ – a terrific song if you ask me – and TYKETTO, with the uber melodic ‘Reach’.Love both...
