Bronz-Carried by the storm

Your Tune
2010

Bronz had some success after releasing their debut "Taken by storm" back in the mid 1980's. They were excited about working on their sophomore effort in 1985 with Ozzy-producer Max Norman set to work with them. Line-up changes and record label problems lead to the album being shelved. Band members went their separate ways, but now guitarist Shaun Kirpatrick and mastering engineer Gordon Young have blown the dust off the 25 year old master tapes and finally put together a polished, finished version for fans to hear. They are sometimes lumped in with the NWOBHM, but don't expect Saxon or Raven because this really isn't metal. There is some old blues based hard rock similar of some 70's British bands, but Bronz owe much more to American style AOR of the 80's like Foreigner or Survivor. After all of the history and background story, this really is a decent album. Typical of the style of the time as they offer up huge melodies and smooth production values. The vocals are the band's best featuire for certain, but the guitar solos are strongand the keyboards are used moderately for the most part which works for me. A few songs like the title track and "Man girl machine" lost me by being way too pop for their own good. Most of the other tracks are heavy and memorable enough. Thinking back to 25 years ago I could imagine some of these songs getting airplay if it had out back then. Fans of 80's AOR will likely eat this album up and be thankful that it finally came out.