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Band: SWEET & LYNCH
Album: “Only To Rise”
Release date: January 23rd 2015
Label: Frontiers Music
Track listing:
1) The Wish
2) Dying Rose
3) Love Stays
4) Time Will Tell
5) Rescue Me
6) Me Without You
7) Recover
8) Divine
9) September
10) Strength In Numbers
11) Hero-Zero
12) Only To Rise
SWEET/LYNCH – ONLY TO RISE. Frontiers Records have a great knack of pairing up artists on their roster to work on joint projects, and their hit rate is phenomenally high. This album sees the coming together of two talents who both tore up the charts in the 80s with their respective brands of melodic Heavy Metal in Stryper and Dokken, and in the guise of Sweet/Lynch, they’ve come up with a collection of tracks that blends the best of both bands. Both Sweet and Lynch are both formidable talents, and neither one is resting on their laurels as their careers progress. Mr Sweet sings as powerfully as ever, Mr Lynch still shreds with the best of them, and both partners have a keen ear for a good melody, which make this album listenable, as opposed to just being a display of technique.
And the pair really spark off each other as songwriters; this isn’t just something that grabs the attention simply because of the initial novelty of checking what the Sweet/Lynch combination might sound like; there’s a real affinity in their approach to the Metal genre, and cranking out 12 songs with no dip in quality throughout the record is ample proof.
There’s talk of them playing live, and it would be a real shame if this collaboration didn’t go any further than one record, ‘cos if they can come up with an album this powerful first time ‘round, I for one would love to see how they develop together in the future. Highly recommended!
https://www.facebook.com/SweetLynch
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/sweetlynch
http://www.frontiers.it
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