Album review : HEAVEN’S EDGE – Get It Right

Frontiers [Release date 12.05.23]

Allmusic describes Heaven’s Edge as “an obscure Glam Metal band from the early nineties”.

It’s a reasonable observation on the basis of one (self titled) album released in 1990 (just about clinging on to the glam rock wave as it washed up onto the beach of popular music history). And one album in 1998 on the MTM label, (Some Other Place, Some Other Time) in the early days of the AOR/ Melodic Rock resurgence in Europe.

The band’s debut was compared to genre flag bearers, Ratt, Poison and Motley Crue, and in its way, Get It Right is very much an echo of those times, when attitude, melody and harmony dominated the music.

Splendid opener, ‘Had Enough’ rings out a big, brassy and bombastic sound,
Reggie Wu’s and Steve Parry’s Guitars bite and sting; Jaron Gulino and David Rath’s bolted to the floor rhythm section rocks the house and Mark Evans’ energetic, been-round-the-block-a-few-times vocals belt out a hooky, pulse quickening chorus.

Elsewhere, the exhuberant pop metal of ‘Nothing Left But Goodbye’ catches the mood of the MTV age, while the satisfying chord shifts that thread their way through Gone Gone Gone’ provide the perfect background to Evans’ sentimental vocals.

Then just when you think the standard will slip, we get the smooth, semi acoustic ‘What Could’ve Been’ and ‘When The Lights Go Down’. Their genesis may be rooted in 1986, but when rock ballads are as good as this, we’re not going to complain.

There is some levelling out going on in the remainder of the album, and a sense of sameness creeps in from time to time, but for an “eighties band” to be this good so far from home really is quite something.

It’s great to see they have reformed and are touring to much audience acclaim. ****

review by Brian McGowan

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