{"id":97914,"date":"2023-01-27T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=97914"},"modified":"2023-02-13T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T13:28:37","slug":"album-review-ronnie-romero-raised-on-heavy-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-ronnie-romero-raised-on-heavy-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"RONNIE ROMERO – Raised On Heavy Radio (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

RONNIE ROMERO
Raised On Heavy Radio<\/strong><\/span>
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\nFrontiers (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Albums which consist entirely of cover versions are so difficult to review because rarely do musicians set out to intentionally murder classic songs. Last year former Accept frontman Udo Dirkschneider destroyed several songs on his My Way<\/em><\/a> outing, but thankfully Ronnie Romero (Michael Schenker Group \/ Ritchie Blackmore\u2019s Rainbow \/ Lords Of Black \/ Sunstorm \/ The Ferrymen) does a fine job of having a good time with his renditions of some of heavy metal\u2019s greatest songs.<\/p>\n

Romero has a rich and fiery tone and so his croons are more than suitable when it comes to covering tracks such as Deep Purple\u2019s \u2018The Battle Rages On\u2019 and Manowar\u2019s \u2018Metal Daze\u2019, while musician friends like Gus G. (Firewind \/ ex-Ozzy Osbourne), Chris Caffery (Savatage \/ Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Roland Grapow (Masterplan \/ ex-Helloween) and Nozomu Wakai (Destinia) join in the merriment.<\/p>\n

What this album really does is showcase Romero\u2019s talent as a frontman as he takes more challenging tracks such as Iron Maiden\u2019s \u2018Hallowed Be Thy Name\u2019 and Judas Priest\u2019s \u2018Turbo Lover\u2019 and gives them the warmth and versatility they deserve. Naturally, the musicians Ronnie has assembled do admirable work throughout and never once are tracks bastardized or disassembled. Instead, everything on offer is true and for the most part it works.<\/p>\n

Metallica\u2019s \u2018The Four Horseman\u2019 and Accept\u2019s \u2018Fast As A Shark\u2019 naturally lack the snap of the original designs, and it is difficult to latch onto the cover of Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s \u2018No More Tears\u2019 just because of Ozzy\u2019s inimitable style, but the keyboards have a warmth to the sound.<\/p>\n

What is key here is the fact that Romero hasn\u2019t set out to make such covers unrecognisable. He and his band merely put their own stamp evidenced more so on the enigmatic cover of Yngwie J. Malmsteen\u2019s \u2018You Don\u2019t Remember, I\u2019ll Never Forget\u2019 and Black Sabbath<\/a>\u2019s \u2018The Shining\u2019. To an extent this is a simple homage from a bunch of metal guys playing songs written by a bunch of other metal guys\u2026 and done well.<\/p>\n

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

RONNIE ROMERORaised On Heavy Radio Frontiers (2023)Rating: 7.5\/10 Albums which consist entirely of cover versions are so difficult to review because rarely do musicians set out to intentionally murder classic songs. Last year former Accept frontman Udo Dirkschneider destroyed several songs on his My Way outing, but thankfully Ronnie Romero (Michael Schenker Group \/ Ritchie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-ronnie-romero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97916,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97914\/revisions\/97916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}