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Storace: Crossfire
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Storace: Crossfire

Classic Melodic Hard Rock/AOR
4.5/5.0

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Words: Craig Hartranft
Added: 26.11.2024 | Released: 22.11.2024

Storace, of course, is the namesake band of Swiss vocalist Marc Storace, who rose to prominence with Switzerland's original and likely most famous hard rock export, Krokus. Actually, his voice was likely the main element which propelled the band to it's most prosperous success, beginning with 1980's Metal Rendes-vous and culminating with 1988's Heart Attack. Storace and Krokus would return with many iterations of the band. Their most recent album, 2017's Big Rocks shot to number one in Switzerland and 31 in neighboring Germany. Marc Storace would turn to solo recording as Storace with 2021's Live And Let Live. Three years on, he returns with his sophomore follow-up, Crossfire, wherein he shared songwriting with drummer Pat Aeby and guitarist Tommy Henriksen (Alice Cooper), who also produced.

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Of Henriksen's input, Storace said: " Tommy Henriksen in spite of his tight touring-schedule with Alice Cooper, The Hollywood Vampires and ... Crossbone Skully, actually made time to produce my Crossfire album! Hell yeah, that's what I call a good friend! Creating the songs with T felt like magic ... And he even got the incredible Olle Romo, Mutt Lange's very own engineer, to mix the album… Unbelievable! It was like a match made in heaven!"


Considering Crossfire, the listener will find the songs to be essential and classic melodic hard rock, fit with a metal edge and led by Storace gritty, yet melodic, vocal style. Is it a Krokus clone? Perhaps. But when you've been crafting classic rock as long as Storace and Henriksen have been it's no surprise. And they've crafted some fine catchy tunes here.

My favorites were the ones with a big rock beat and even bigger rock groove like Love Thing Stealer, Screaming Demon, Let's Get Nuts, and We All Need Money. Other songs can be simply heavy and steady, nearly plodding, such as Hell Yeah, Rock This City (which is preceded by a strange segue, or Millionaire Blues. The album finishes with a piano driven power ballad, Only Love Can Hurt Like This.

All said, Krokus vocalist Marc Storace's latest and second solo album, Crossfire, is another fine and entertaining venture into the genre he knows quite well: classic melodic hard rock with some metal edge and AOR sensibility, led by his gritty, rowdy, yet melodic, vocal style. Recommended.



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The Take Away

Krokus vocalist Marc Storace's latest and second solo album, Crossfire, is another fine and entertaining venture into the genre he knows quite well: classic melodic hard rock with some metal edge and AOR sensibility, led by his gritty, rowdy, yet melodic, vocal style. Recommended.

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