{"id":3569,"date":"2011-12-03T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T23:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2011-12-03T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T23:55:42","slug":"3569","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2011\/12\/3569\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Seller – Back To Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 25 words or less: As with almost everything being released by the label Avenue Of Allies these days, this is a quality release definitely worth checking out.<\/em><\/p>\n

Italy’s Soul Seller first started way back in 1999 with brothers David and Mirko Zublena and here in 2011, with many line-up changes, comes their first album release, Back To Life<\/em>.\u00a0 Having released a couple of demo CD\u2019s back in 2002 and 2005, the band have flirted with melodic rock, hard rock, glam rock and 70\u2019s rock, before settling on what is in essence a real mix of all those styles, but with the emphasis most definitively being on harder edged melodic rock.<\/p>\n

Given my love for melodic rock, it\u2019s really a no brainer liking an album such as Back To Life.\u00a0 <\/em>Sure, the opening trio of Wings Of Freedom,<\/em> Change Your Heart Tonight <\/em>and All I Can Promise <\/em>sound like (insert your favourite melodic rock band), but these are damn catchy undeniable, up-tempo melodic rock corkers.\u00a0 The type of songs that if you heard in isolation would have you going \u201cwho the hell is this band\u201d.\u00a0 With a seemingly endless abundance of new melodic rock\/hard rock\/AOR bands originating from Europe these days, it seems that having some \u201cname\u201d people involved is an essential pre-requisite to try and attract some attention.\u00a0 In this case we have singer Oliver Hartmann (Avantasia, ex-At Vance) doing a duet on the big riffed rock Keep On Moving.\u00a0 <\/em>Incidentally, production comes from Alessandro Del Vecchio(Edge Of Forever, Eden’s Curse, Lionville, Shining Line) who seems to be popping up on virtually everything these days with a melodic rock\/AOR flavour!<\/p>\n

Old Hero\u2019s Prayer <\/em>with a chorus that never wants to end is very Bon Jovi\u2019esque with the vocal styling\u2019s and delivery of Michael Carrata, not to mention the song structure\u2026 my favourite song on the album.\u00a0 The band really deliver some harder edged rock on Back To Life, Rock Still Stands <\/em>and New Power Day, <\/em>and there\u2019s the obligatory ballad in Hell Of Tears.\u00a0 <\/em>The interestingly titled Beautiful Heretic\u2019s Dream <\/em>closes the album with a real epic 70\u2019s classic rock type feel.<\/p>\n

Back To Life <\/em>is release that will no doubt be overshadowed by releases from higher profiled bands.\u00a0 But as with almost everything being released by the label Avenue Of Allies these days, this is a quality release definitely worth checking out.<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/span><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Italy<\/p>\n

Check it out if you like:<\/strong> Harder edged melodic rock<\/p>\n

Release Date:<\/strong> October 21, 2011<\/p>\n

Record label:<\/strong> Avenue Of Allies<\/p>\n

Producer:<\/strong> Alessandro Del Vecchio(Edge Of Forever, Eden’s Curse, Lionville, Shining Line)<\/p>\n

Website: www.soulseller.it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tracklisting
\n<\/strong>Wings Of Freedom
\nChange Your Heart Tonight
\nAll I Can Promise
\nKeep On Moving (feat. Oliver Hartmann)
\nHope On The Horizon
\nOld Hero’s Prayer
\nBack To Life
\nHell Of Tears
\nA Message From Planet Venus
\nNew Power Day
\nRock Still Stands
\nBeautiful Heretic’s Dream<\/p>\n

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