{"id":105479,"date":"2025-09-05T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105479"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:02:35","slug":"album-review-glenn-hughes-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-glenn-hughes-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"GLENN HUGHES – Chosen (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

GLENN HUGHES
\nChosen<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFrontiers (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Described as a \u201cpersonal work, with lyrics about love, hope, faith and the human condition\u201d, Chosen<\/em> is the brand new and potentially last opus from legendary UK vocalist Glenn Hughes.<\/p>\n

One might be lead into thinking that due to its emotional nature that Chosen<\/em> would veer towards the fluffy side, but you\u2019d be mistaken. There\u2019s hardly a ballad in sight here as Chosen<\/em> comes equipped with driving riffs, punchy drums and a sizzling vocal power. The flavours from Glenn\u2019s last solo album, Resonate<\/em> (2016), are gone, there\u2019s no sass or funkiness (okay, maybe with patches of \u2018Hot Damn Thing\u2019 and \u2018Black Cat Moan\u2019) or hint of Hammond flush, but instead straight up rockin\u2019 where axe man Soren Andersen delivers in spades.<\/p>\n

Considering this album seems like a reflective process, there\u2019s so much vigour, suggesting that Glenn could easily spit out another batch of albums after this. Chosen<\/em> kicks in with \u2018Voice In My Head\u2019, and Andersen is immediately wired in, providing the punchy lick like a cocksure veteran. \u2018Voice In My Head\u2019 isn\u2019t just one of those misleading escapades, hell no, a majority of the record grooves with such delicious weight akin to a solo project of Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath<\/a>). The behemoths strut and stomp like a herd of elephants in single file doing the Macarena!<\/p>\n

\u2018My Alibi\u2019, \u2018Heal\u2019 and the title track all unravel like serpent coils, getting darker with each roll. It\u2019s not that this is a record of ominous tone but there are plenty of moodier shades within its contours, particularly as the album gets heavier with songs such as the thunderous doom of \u2018The Lost Parade\u2019 and the literal grunge hammering of \u2018In The Golden\u2019.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s certainly a mid-90s density about some of these songs, especially with the shuddering bass lines. Closer \u2018Into The Fade\u2019 is a sumptuous mid-paced rocker with a spine of steel, while \u2018Come And Go\u2019 brings subtlety as Glenn returns to a softer plateau of sensitivity and majesty amidst melancholy.<\/p>\n

Hughes, to use the exhausted adage, has got better with age, soulfully crooning with a bluesy smoulder, but as he approaches his mid-seventies one can naturally wonder how much more he\u2019s got left in the tank. However, with Chosen<\/em> it would suggest that Glenn still has a heart full of soul and rock n\u2019 rol.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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