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"TITAN ‘STEPS’ (INDEPENDENT)

How quickly a year passes by! Earlier in 2009 we reviewed this great CD of STRIKER, which was immediately a hot new Swedish Melodic Rock sensation and now within the same year the band strikes back with a new CD titled ‘Steps’! What has changed is their bandname, which now reads TITAN and musically they went a little more into a pure 80s (polished) A.O.R. style that is not that far away from countrymen H.E.A.T., TALK OF THE TOWN, ALIEN WORK OF ART…, although some of the songs on this CD even remind me of BOULEVARD (Canada) or AGENT for that matter. Besides their music, also when looking at the artwork, their bandlogo and the pictures of the bandmembers, it’s like we stepped into a time machine and went back to 1985. It was the mid 80s when hundreds of young Swedish bands started releasing Americanized AOR 45” singles, but only a few of them managed to release a real full-length CD that nowadays are regarded as classics in the AOR genre, such as the aforementioned ALIEN and TALK OF THE TOWN. However, this TITAN would not have been out of place between all these bands and perhaps could have been a major label band back then. Anyway, also with regards to the past 10 years, we have seen another revival in Sweden with bands that play this classic 80s AOR/Melodic Rockstyle, yet somehow they are adding a dash of TOTOish Westcoast-AOR to their sound. TITAN is another band to add now to that list of new Swedish AOR bands and they are doing it all very well here on this 6 tracks counting mini-CD titled ‘Steps’, almost as good as their countrymen of H.E.A.T. Highlights are the uptempo A.O.R. Rockers “Hero”, “When evening falls” and especially closing track “One more night”. It’s these 3 songs which are showing that pure 80s A.O.R. does not have to sound dated at all in 2009, especially when it is done by a group of young energetic musicians like the 5 rockers from TITAN. There are not many countries in the world nowadays that deliver such pure young A.O.R. Bands like this TITAN. Even in the USA, where 25 years ago on every street corner there were bands playing this style, or in the UK this kind of AOR is very rare and in Sweden it’s like everyday’s business, because after H.E.AT., WORK OF ART, NEON DIVER, DANGER AVENUE and a few more, we can add yet another great new pure AOR band called TITAN. More info at: www.titantheband.com and http://www.myspace.com/titantheband (Points: 8.8 out of 10)"

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