Search - Brother Firetribe :: Heart Full on Fire (Shm)

ALBUM OF THE YEAR!

M. Towers | AUS | 11/26/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"From the very second I put this cd in I was absolutely hooked.

As many others have said, it brings back that amazing Rock/Metal sound from the 80's. It actually reminds me of all my favourite songs without being a rip off of any of them.

With music being what it is, it's hard to believe that an album this good was made in 2008! Every track makes me want to put it on repeat and never stop listening to it. I have been listening to this album on repeat now for 4 hours. Yes it's that good!



The standout track for me is "Wildest Dreams" which is quite possible the greatest rock song I have ever heard. It's a shame not many people know about this band because I believe that in all honesty, if this stuff was played on the radio it would be at the top of the charts. This album is beautiful, breathtaking and just beyond words.



BUY IT NOW! It's worth every cent."

Sophomore sound bytes

Paul Lawrence | Australia | 11/25/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Yeah OK the first time was pretty funny. But here we get Brother Firetribe (vanity project of Nightwish' six slinger Emppu vourinen) sallying forth to infiltrate our stereos with a second dose of sacharine sweet sonics. And given dinosaur like bands such as Journey - who are onto what, their tenth line up this week? - are pretty insanely long in the tooth it's nice t osee a few newer bands giving the genre a whirl and stepping up to the plate with doses of quality radio fodder played with passion and ability.



This second serve by the band maintains their fun persona, maintains the sickly sweet and multi layered harmonies with plenty of keys and Pekka Heino using his smooth vox to good effect. The band are joined by a number of guest musicians such as new Nightwish throat Anette Olzon who is credited with 'foxy vocals on Heart Full of Fire' and Sammy Salminen, Juice Wahlsten and Samuel Hjelt as 'brutal stadium man power choir on I Am Rock'. Ad if that titbit of info doesn't tell you what you're getting here then perhaps your beyond assistance!



On a more serious note, I can't help but feeling that this album can be summed up by looking at it's rear cover art. It looks like when one of your friends takes a shot on their cheap digital camera and then tries to print it out with insufficiently good equipment. It looks pixelated and kind of not as good as the original did on the screen. Well this album is not the five star piece of work that the debut was in that the songs just aren't as memorable nor does the project get the benefit of the 'new and different' angle the debut had. I still like it quite a bit, it's easy to love such cheesy melodies in between bouts of heavier music but put it this way, when I feel like a BF album it's the debut that I pick out. But if you already own that piece of stadium read heavy AOR and want some more this is definitely worth the price of admission."

Brother Firetribe is Rock

AceFan | Washinton | 06/14/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love this band and I just started listening to them about three weeks ago. I was reading reviews for lesser known bands and came across Brother Firetribe and found myself hearing a sound not heard in a while. Old school AOR and just plan Rock N Roll that had me more interested in a band than I had been in a long time. Kind of a Journey sound before Journey started doing ALL ballads. This band can do it all it seems, Runaways is a nice sounding midlevel rock song, while I Am Rock is almost metal(almost). I am not a fan of ballads but even Chasing The Angels had my interest as a great ballad. Their first album False Metal is also worth checking out and maybe even better than this one but they both rock. So if you like old rock and are tired of the soft alternative sound of today look up Brother Firetribe. But I will say this not to undermine Amazon but iTunes does have both albums for cheaper if you have iTunes. Anyway rock on and look forward to more great things from this band."