After being a member of Lion for their two awesome albums, Doug Aldrich played on the House Of Lords Sahara album, and then he leant his hat in this, Hurricane’s 3rd and best album. You can see how he gets the reputation of a gun for hire. The amazing Kelly Hansen, who is now a member of Foreigner, is the vocalist, Jay Schellen is on drums, and Tony Cavazo is on bass.
This is not a band that suffered because of the emergence of grunge. I know I say this a lot, but if this album was released four years earlier, then they would have been huge. Great hooks and melodies, big riffs, killer guitar, and a superb vocalist. The band had it all! If you listen to Aldrich’s projects after this (namely Bad Moon Rising and Burning Rain), the formula is the same as this album – he knew the formula was good.
There are some great tracks on this album, the opening track Reign Of Love, Dance Little Sister, Temptation are all cracking songs, but it’s the monster Into The Fire (with its killer riff and hook), and the very Whitesnake-ish, Let It Slide, that top the tree for me. Doug is now a member of The Dead Daisies and still killing it.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
