Sunstorm
Edge of Tomorrow
Frontiers Music Srl
2016
Joe Lynn Turner was always maintaining that the Sunstorm albums would be a trilogy, but with “Edge of Tomorrow” being the forth one, obviously that statement no longer holds true. But who would blame the man, since he seems to have been produced with a nice batch of songs, which would be a pity to “not sing” and instead of figuring out another moniker to release them under and since they’re not too different from the rest of the Sunstorm material, it makes all the more sense to add them to the Sunstorm canon.
This project started after toying with the idea to go back into something more melodic after the more raw “Rated X” album, so producer and songwriter Alessandro Del Vecchio (Hardline, Edge Of Forever) and Simone Mularoni, guitar player of Italian prog metallers DGM, together with people like Soren Kronqvist and Daniel Palmqvist worked on a number of tunes that seem to be quite in tune with what this project is all about, while upping the ante a bit. Del Vecchio and Mularoni also provide the keys and guitars to this project along with a couple of more of Frontiers own “project” players.
For a “tailor made” album, “Edge of Tomorrow” is actually quite an achievement, as it not only manages to not sound disjointed, but quite cohesive in fact. Both the production as well as the performances are very high quality and while Joe on many songs tends to sound a bit more like JSS, than himself, timbre-wish, we’re talking about JSS from yesteryear, when he was still pretty amazing.
What actually amazes me is how Turner despite his advancing age manages to exert such vocal prowess, truly one of the best singers from his era, who doesn’t seem to have missed a step vocally, despite touring quite a bit.
Tracks like “Don’t Walk Away from a Goodbye”, the title track or “The Sound of Goodbye” are nothing sort of amazing, while ballads like “Angel Eyes” just display Joe’s amazing lyrical charisma and warmth of delivery. Well, if the entries on Sunstrom are gonna be this good, you have a license as far as I care, to make a hundred of those, so to speak…
This project started after toying with the idea to go back into something more melodic after the more raw “Rated X” album, so producer and songwriter Alessandro Del Vecchio (Hardline, Edge Of Forever) and Simone Mularoni, guitar player of Italian prog metallers DGM, together with people like Soren Kronqvist and Daniel Palmqvist worked on a number of tunes that seem to be quite in tune with what this project is all about, while upping the ante a bit. Del Vecchio and Mularoni also provide the keys and guitars to this project along with a couple of more of Frontiers own “project” players.
For a “tailor made” album, “Edge of Tomorrow” is actually quite an achievement, as it not only manages to not sound disjointed, but quite cohesive in fact. Both the production as well as the performances are very high quality and while Joe on many songs tends to sound a bit more like JSS, than himself, timbre-wish, we’re talking about JSS from yesteryear, when he was still pretty amazing.
What actually amazes me is how Turner despite his advancing age manages to exert such vocal prowess, truly one of the best singers from his era, who doesn’t seem to have missed a step vocally, despite touring quite a bit.
Tracks like “Don’t Walk Away from a Goodbye”, the title track or “The Sound of Goodbye” are nothing sort of amazing, while ballads like “Angel Eyes” just display Joe’s amazing lyrical charisma and warmth of delivery. Well, if the entries on Sunstrom are gonna be this good, you have a license as far as I care, to make a hundred of those, so to speak…