[EXCLUSIVE – Fans Of Van Halen]
Mike Albright’s long awaited 3rd album. Straying from the all instrumental genre, Albright has a winner with this heavy, yet melodic, pulse pounding record.SONIC EMPIRE is a 4 year project that has finally come to fruition. Mike has dropped the all instrumental thing, and this offering is a genre crossing, yet heavy hitting album.
The blistering, yet tasteful guitar work in this record is simply sublime. Mike goes from straight up hard rock, like in “Never Surrender”, to the wicked sounding “Over The Edge”, then takes it into a totally different feeling with the emotion drenched “In The Middle Of The Night”. “Back In My Arms Again” is another heartfelt song, as is the all acoustic instrumental “Jaded Hearts”, with it’s very mystifying sounds. The CD is right back to Albright’s heavy metal roots with the headbanging, drop tuned “Mercenary”. The album has some tasteful, moody keyboards sprinkled throughout as well. The most interesting fact, as with all of Mike’s work is that Mike not only wrote, recorded most instruments, and mixed/mastered the entire album by himself, he also produced the entire project as well. Every track shows the heart and soul of a guitar virtuoso who’s soul defining purpose is the sheer love of playing. Every note pours out pure emotion.
1. Never Surrender
2. Back In My Arms Again
3. Over The Edge
4. Walking On Fire
5. Push It To The Limit
6. Heartbeat
7. The Last Stand
8. In The Middle Of The Night
9. Solitude
10. Frozen Flame
11. Jaded Hearts
12. Mercenary
13. Sinister Sid
14. Unleashed Blues Jam
15. Playing The Game
16. Sonic Empire
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