| Written by Alex Stojanovic TRACK LISTING Viva La Victoria Mary Leigh Blood Wants Blood Shelter Me United Delirious When The Winter Ends 38 Or 44 Never Gonna Be Like You The Masquerade Take Me Home Release Date: October 11, 2019 Label: Frontiers Records Website: www.eclipsemania.com www.facebook.com/EclipseSweden |  |
ECLIPSE IS:
Erik Martensson - Lead vocals & guitars / Magnus Henriksson - Lead guitars
Magnus Ulfstedt - Bass / Philip Crusner - Drums
Erik Martensson - Lead vocals & guitars / Magnus Henriksson - Lead guitars
Magnus Ulfstedt - Bass / Philip Crusner - Drums
| | Every once in a while, when you're listening to songs about some rather dark and depressing subjects most of the time, you need some music that's more upbeat and has a more uplifting vibe to balance the moods out, and Eclipse is one of those bands that does that for me. It's quite obvious that you know what you're getting with whatever Erik Martensson is involved with. His comfort zone is melodic rock, and pretty much every single band he's involved with outside of Eclipse, he brings the same writing style. I know the word "catchy" is an exhausting word to use, but there's no word more perfect to describe Eclipse's sound. Their songs are built for stadiums and arenas, and they could win over any power metal crowd with their huge anthemic choruses and overall catchy tunes. |
Erik is a master of the craft of creating hooks that stick in your head for days, both musically and vocally. Arriving at studio album #7 with Paradigm, Eclipse are still providing straightforward melodic hard rock of the highest quality. If you've been a fan of the band for a long time, you pretty much know what to expect. Paradigm picks up where Monumentum left off. With straight-up, feel-good rockers like "Viva La Victoria", "Blood Wants Blood", "When The Winter Ends" and "Delirious", as well as epic, soaring numbers like "United", "Shelter Me" and "The Masquerade", you can tell that these songs have serious staying power with the amount of memorability they contain. If you're looking for a faster tune, check out "38 Or 44". "The Masquerade" has what I think is the best chorus on the album (there are many good ones). I dare anyone to try to either keep your head or whole body still when that chorus kicks in, or try and refrain from singing along to it. When you hear it, you will find out that that will be just impossible. Believe me, I found myself torturing the seek bar by rewinding that chorus over and over again.
This album would end up being the last to feature longtime member Magnus Ulfstedt, who announced that he was leaving the band just a few days ago. We wish him well in his future musical endeavours. Paradigm, simply put, is a modern hard rock masterpiece that your record collection will be begging for to be added. In a time when hard rock with that classic, feel-good vibe that was popularized by Dokken, Def Leppard and Journey, is becoming somewhat hard to find with current bands, Eclipse provides that missing element, and it results in music that fans of both the classic and modern eras of rock and metal will latch on to. Now the only favour we ask of Eclipse is to make their way to Canada to play live.
Highs: "Viva La Victoria", "Shelter Me", "United", "When The Winter Ends" and "The Masquerade".
Lows: Nothing earth-shattering or ground-breaking.
This album would end up being the last to feature longtime member Magnus Ulfstedt, who announced that he was leaving the band just a few days ago. We wish him well in his future musical endeavours. Paradigm, simply put, is a modern hard rock masterpiece that your record collection will be begging for to be added. In a time when hard rock with that classic, feel-good vibe that was popularized by Dokken, Def Leppard and Journey, is becoming somewhat hard to find with current bands, Eclipse provides that missing element, and it results in music that fans of both the classic and modern eras of rock and metal will latch on to. Now the only favour we ask of Eclipse is to make their way to Canada to play live.
Highs: "Viva La Victoria", "Shelter Me", "United", "When The Winter Ends" and "The Masquerade".
Lows: Nothing earth-shattering or ground-breaking.
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