LEVERAGE Unveil Music Video For ‘When We Were Young’ Track
February 27th, 2020
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Finnish melodic metal group Leverage have released a music video for the track ‘When We Were Young’, which can be viewed below.
Leverage issued fourth full-length studio album DeterminUs on April 26th, 2019 through Frontiers Music Srl.
“The new album is the same but different,” commented guitarist and founder Tuomas Heikkinen. “This is the way I write. It is heavy rock and draws from a variety of influences, mine or the other members. I used to make demos that had every bass, drum and keyboard note MIDI programmed to detail and then just asked the guys to reproduce that exactly, but now I only underline the passages that I feel are essential and let them have a go at expressing themselves as musicians. And just as importantly, I always try to hear the vocalist in my head when writing. Pekka and Kimmo are two different singers, that definitely guides the process.”
Ten years separate the respective releases of DeterminUs and predecessor Circus Colossus. “People that have heard the music say that it definitely has the Leverage vibe, but also covers new ground,” continued Heikkinen. “It has variety, ranging from pretty damn heavy to all kinds of far ends at times. This album sounds like a band playing and there’s movement where we didn’t use to have it. There’s less overdubs, not too many huge hired choirs, very little MIDI orchestrations and less tracks all together.”
DeterminUs marks the recording debuts of vocalist Kimmo Blom and guitarist Mikko Salovaara. “Kimmo is a phenomenal and very versatile singer. He draws pictures in front of you the way he sings,” concluded Heikkinen. “He has a huge presence, both seen and heard and is not the most typical vocalist in this scene. He approaches each song as a short story and really throws himself in there. Mikko is a monster guitar player with a background of very heavy and complex metal with a band called Kiuas. It was like ‘I am going to get him or Leverage will have only one guitar.’ I am happy he wanted to join the band. I have been blessed to get to work with outstanding guitar players in Leverage, first with Torsti and now with Mikko.”
“I’m really excited about all this, getting back to making Leverage music with a great group of people, old and new. And getting it out through a solid label to the fans.”
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The track listing is as follows:
01. ‘Burn Love Burn’
02. ‘Wind Of Morrigan’
03. ‘Tiger’
04. ‘Red Moon Over Sonora’ (album version)
05. ‘Mephistocrate’
06. ‘Afterworld’s Disciple’
07. ‘When We Were Young’
08. ‘Heaven’s No Place For Us’
09. ‘Hand Of God’
10. ‘Rollerball’
11. ‘Troy’
Leverage’s line-up is as follows:
Kimmo Blom (vocals)
Mikko Salovaara (guitars)
Tuomas Heikkinen (guitars)
Sami Norrbacka (bass)
Valtteri Revonkorpi (drums)
Marko Niskala (keyboards)
A music video was filmed for the track ‘Wind Of Morrigan’. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the song ‘Burn Love Burn’. Both clips can also be viewed below.
Third studio record Circus Colossus was released in November 2009 via Spinefarm.
Promotional photograph by Petri Siikanen.
