Year : 2020
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Melodic Rock
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 140 mb
Bio:
The evolution of Spearfish began in an after-hours club in Poland some time in 1990. At that time, bass player and singer Thomas Thulin and guitarist Peter Lundin were in different bands playing on the same tour. The two talented musicians conceived the idea of a new band together and it became the main topic of discussion while returning to their native Sweden.Spearfish "officially" came to be in 1995, spending most of their premier year together in the studio recording new songs, making demos and defining the unique musical style that is destined to become a well-known trademark. The original setting saw two guitars, Bass and drums.Besides Thomas and Peter, there was Ola who wrote a some of the songs and played the guitar and Bill who played the drums.Bill was the first to leave the band after recording their promo CD.He moved to California to study at a "drum academy" there. Ola was the next to leave and for a while Spearfish concisted of Thomas and Peter with a few different drummers sort of gueststarring.In 1996 they recorded a promotional CD that received high marks in many music magazines. Annika Sundbaum-Melin, music journalist for the biggest newspaper in Swedish circulation wrote: "The singer…makes me think of Geddy Lee in Rush…If someone gives Spearfish a contract I believe they can really make it:" The Promo CD was named "Different Access" and was distributed by Megarock.The photography for the cover was provided by an old friend of Thulin´s: rock photographer Michael Johansson, whose client list includes the likes of Europe, Ozzy Osborne, Alice Cooper, Ace of Base, Yngwie Malmsteen and many others.Spearfish is a band that plays classic rock with a strong feeling of the heavier rock groups of the ´70s. The influence of favorite artists such as Deep Purple, Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep is evident in the music, but Spearfish manages to entwine their own personal styling into each song, making the listening experience a fresh, unique and yet grittingly familiar venture.
Album:
SPEARFISH, the Swedish hard rock band that backed Aussie/English vocalist Jon English when he performed in Sweden in 2013, just made available their tribute album to the late vocalist titled “The English Project“.This was supposed to be the new album of the band with John English, but unfortunately he passed away while recording. Spearfish and Jon English first met in 2013 when they played together at a Swedish rock festival. This happened again in 2015, and after that Jon decided he wanted to record a new studio album with Spearfish as backing band.Unfortunately, English died in 2016, but the band together with the initiator of the project Johannes Lindstron (Sweden Rock) decided to complete the album with the help of invited artists. However, Jon managed to sing in two songs that are on the disc. These are brand new songs written by him and Spearfish.Among the stellar guests there’s Dan McCafferty of Nazareth, Rick Brewster of The Angels, John Lawton (Uriah Heep), Tony Carey (ex- Rainbow), Darren Wharton (Dare, ex-Thin Lizzy) and many more.This is classic rock with a traditional UK hard rock vibe, played & recorded old-school (analog recording). Indeed, the album was only released on vinyl LP two years ago – not on other format.But because there’s only few copies remaining, Spearfish decided to release digitally all these songs for a world-wide availability.Other remarkable musicians involved include Nicky Moore (Samson), Dave Gleeson (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Mark Stanway (Magnum), Rob Tognoni, Eric Oblander (Five Horse Johnson), Mark Taylor (The Alarm), Pontus Snibb (Bonafide), Bernie Tormé (Ozzy, Gillan), Laurence Archer (Phil Lynott’s Grand Slam, UFO), Clive Edwards (UFO, Wild Horses), David Lowy (The Dead Daisies), Nils Patrik Johansson (Astral Doors) and many more.Among the highlights, there’s opener ‘Never Happen To Me’, where English himself fronts the mic.‘Crossing Lines’ is another favorite, with none other than John Lawton (Uriah Heep, Lucifer’s Friend) on vocals and he rocks. This is better than good, and I spontaneously exclaim: “It sounds exactly like in the 1970s!” Tony Carey also lifts the song to dizzying heights with his beautiful organ.Nazareth’s singer Dan McCafferty is the man who gets the honor of making the song that made Jon English popular back in the day: ‘Six Ribbons’, and he does it in his own way, with his peculiar raspy voice.But closer ‘Enola Gay’ should be the winner here, which I would even like to call a small masterpiece: Deep Purple’s Perfect Strangers era meets Thin Lizzy’s ‘Emerald’. We hear a fantastic guitar dueling by Laurence Archer and Mikael Fässberg and the superb singing effort is made by Nils Patrik Johansson.Another song that sticks as an adhesive is ‘The Shining’, the other song where Dan McCafferty handles the vocals.
Line Up:
Thomas Thulin - Vocals , bass
Peter Lundin - guitar
Marcus Höher - drums
+ guests:
Dan McCafferty (Nazareth), John Lawton (Uriah Heep), Nicky Moore (Samson), Dave Gleeson (The Angels, Screaming Jets), Mark Stanway (Magnum), Tony Carey (Rainbow), Rob Tognoni, Eric Oblander (Five Horse Johnson), Mark Taylor (The Alarm), Pontus Snibb (Bonafide), Bernie Torm? (Ozzy, Gillan), Laurence Archer (Phil Lynott’s Grand Slam, UFO), Clive Edwards (UFO, Wild Horses), David Lowy (The Dead Daisies), Rick Brewster (The Angels), Darren Wharton (Thin Lizzy, Dare), Nils Patrik Johansson (Astral Doors), Pontus Lundin.
Tracklist:
01. Never Happen to Me - Jon English
02. Wheels Keep on Turning - Bernie Torme, Pontus Snibb
03. Crossing Lines - John Lawton
04. Six Ribbons - Dan McCafferty
05. Assholes and Opinions - Rob Tognoni
06. Try to Be a Hero - Nicky Moore
07. Rhythm of a Heartbeat - Jon English, Dave Gleeson, Rick Brewster
08. The Shining - Dan McCafferty
09. Gone (Song for Jon) - Tony Carey
10. Enola Gay - Darren Wharton, Laurence Archer, Mikael Fässberg, Nils Patrik Johansson
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