{"id":14408,"date":"2015-02-20T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=14408"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:03","slug":"album-review-eclipse-armageddonize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=14408","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Eclipse \u2013 Armageddonize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melodicrock.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_image_full_node\/public\/field\/image\/eclipse-armageddonize.jpg?itok=Bssq_zrf\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"243\" \/>Eclipse \u2013 Armageddonize<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date: February 20, 2015<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Record Label: Frontiers Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before giving Swedish melodic rockers Eclipse\u2019s latest album Armageddonize an earnest listen, I really didn\u2019t know what to expect.\u00a0\u00a0 Being that they were signed to Frontiers Records, the first thing I did was to look at the line up to see if this was another \u201cnot-so\u201d super group made of has been glam metal rockers. To my surprise, I didn\u2019t know a single name in the line up so at least I knew I could put all bias aside. I crossed my fingers and as the first song \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Say I\u2019m Sorry\u201d I just found myself smiling, tapping my foot, and sporting a shit eating grin. Why? This is the music of my youth with a brand new set of legs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWide Open\u201d is a song of arena hard rock proportions while \u201cLive Like I\u2019m Dying\u201d is hands down one of the best power ballads I\u2019ve heard in 20 something years. This Scorpions like jam had me seeing visions of a packed arena with cigarette lighters (not cell phones) up in the air as lead singer\/guitarist Erik M\u00e5rtensson cuts through the air with his sharp, soulful, powerful vocals as lead guitarist Magnus Henriksson shreds leads that would have Matthias Jabs wanting to high five his ass.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r453Xtjn6bA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eclipse is very accurately called melodic hard rock and I can honestly say that they live up to every word of that genre tag. Listening to Eclipse takes me back to a time where this kind of music filled arenas with larger than life stage productions and songs with hooks that were so goddamn infectious that they make the hairs on your arm stand at full attention. Just listening Armageddonize can hear elements of Scorpions, early Def Leppard, and even a hint of early Skid Row in there. Eclipse manages to do all this without sounding overly nostalgic or dated. They sound very much like a modern band who cut their teeth on those bands and have found a way to deliver it in a way that isn\u2019t dated or even dishonest.<\/p>\n<p>Armageddonize is a melodic hard rock riff lover\u2019s dream come true that just doesn\u2019t know when to quit. Song after song, Eclipse serves up some of the most eargasmic melodic hard rock that I\u2019ve heard in years. With Armageddonize, Eclipse has secured their place as a band that I will be listening out more for in the figure. Sometimes metal can get a bit drab. Even as much as I love metal as a whole, sometimes I just need to feel uplifted a little bit and not forced to think too much. That isn\u2019t saying that Eclipse isn\u2019t a smart band. They are just a band that knows the magic of taking their listener away from it all and for the duration of time they are listening to feel like they are just being entertained with some well produced, well written, and well executed meldodic hard rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eclipse \u2013 Armageddonize Release Date: February 20, 2015 Record Label: Frontiers Records Before giving Swedish melodic rockers Eclipse\u2019s latest album Armageddonize an earnest listen, I really didn\u2019t know what to expect.\u00a0\u00a0 Being that they were signed to Frontiers Records, the first thing I did was to look at the line up to see if this was another \u201cnot-so\u201d super group made of has been glam metal rockers. To my surprise, I didn\u2019t know a single name in the line up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1276,1277],"class_list":["post-14408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-eclipse","tag-frontiers-records"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19737,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14408\/revisions\/19737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}