Album review: REMEDY – Pleasure Beats Pain

Escape Music [Release date 24.05.24]

Remedy released their debut album at the tail end of 2022 and it earned rave reviews (including from this reviewer!), although being independently released it didn’t get the full coverage it deserved. Enter Escape Music who know a thing or two about top notch melodic rock & metal bands and it will ensure this release will get the coverage it deserves.

Remedy consist of Robert Van der Zwan (vocals, guitars), Roland Forsman (guitars, backing vocals)m Jonas Dicklo (bass, backing vocals), Fredrik Karlberg (drums) and Jonas Öijvall (keyboards). As with their debut this one is mixed and mastered by Eclipse’s Erik Martensson.

Unlike many a melodic hard rock band Remedy are out touring regularly, including their native Sweden and their UK live debut on June 29 as part of the Tower of Fire one day festival in Manchester.

Remedy do melodic hard rock meets metal with class on ‘Caught By Death’ and ‘Sin For Me’. They do like a good, crunchy guitar riff and more power to them for doing so. Those after a more melodic sound a la Eclipse or Brother Firetribe will love ‘Angelina’. Keys aplenty and those vocals of Robert Van der Zwan top it off nicely.

‘Bad Blood’ and ‘Hearts On Fire’ are a tad by numbers, however songs like ‘Crying Heart’ and ‘Poison’ (not an Alice Cooper cover!) keep the album on the right side of ‘essential’. ‘Poison’ would make a great next single. They even add a bit of sax appeal to ‘Moon Has The Night’ and I defy any lover of all things melodic not to be singing & humming this chorus after just one listen!

Ending with the soothing acoustic number ‘Something They Call Love’ gives the album a good flow as it is all get & up and go beforehand. A heartfelt number showing Remedy have plenty left in their songwriting locker.

Remedy are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with in melodic rock circles and with the likes of H.E.A.T. not overly active of late, Remedy provide the perfect pick me up. ****

Review by Jason Ritchie

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