Tag Archives: Talisman

Album review : W.E.T. – Apex

Posted on March 22, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 28.03.25] Fourth album from WET, whose ranks have swollen from three members to six. What was once Robert Sall (Work Of Art), Erik Martensson (Eclipse) and Jeff Scott Soto (Talisman), is now those three plus … Continue reading →

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Album review: WILDNESS – Resurrection

Posted on October 11, 2022 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date: 14.10.22] Maybe the title indicates that a move to Frontiers for their third album, Resurrection, is seen by Swedish AOR/Melodic Rock band Wildness as a post pandemic rebirth. Certainly, the band have made significant strides in terms … Continue reading →

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Album review: JEFF SCOTT SOTO – Complicated

Posted on May 11, 2022 by jason

Frontiers [Release date 06.05.22] Like his last solo album, 2020′s ‘Wide Awake (In My Dreamland)’, Jeff Scott Soto has teamed up with Frontiers ‘go to’ songwriter/musician Alessandro Del Vecchio. Del Vecchio also adds keys, bass and backing vocals, being joined … Continue reading →

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Album review: SOTO – Origami

Posted on May 16, 2019 by jason

Inside Out [Release date 24.05.19] Jeff Scott Soto is a busy man with his solo albums, Sons Of Apollo, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, W.E.T. and of course the band SOTO (I am thinking the use of capitals is to differentiate from the … Continue reading →

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Gig review: SOTO – Camden Underworld, London, 17 February 2017

Posted on February 19, 2017 by andynathan

Prolific vocalist Jeff Scott Soto’s well-travelled career has seen him spend brief spells with big names like Yngwie Malmsteen and Journey, participate in supergroups like Soul Sirkus and W.E.T., release albums under his own name and lend his pipes to … Continue reading →

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Album review: SOTO – Divak

Posted on February 16, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

earMUSIC [Release date 01.04.16] Soto’s debut album ‘Inside The Vertigo’ came and went early last year, and judging by the critical reaction perhaps splitting some of the core JSS fanbase as it marked a return to the more hard-hitting metal … Continue reading →

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News: JEFF SCOTT SOTO chooses favourite tracks (Interview, 25 January 2015)

Posted on January 23, 2015 by GRTR! HQ

Jeff Scott Soto - The Tivoli, Buckley, 23 June 2014

On Sunday 25 January, Jeff Scott Soto chats about his new album and career including Talisman and Journey on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. ‘Inside The Vertigo’ by his new band ‘Soto’ is released on 2 February via earMUSIC. In … Continue reading →

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Album review: SOTO – Inside The Vertigo (Jeff Scott Soto)

Posted on January 13, 2015 by GRTR! HQ

Interview edit: Jeff Scott Soto with David Randall, 13 January 2015 (15:04) Jeff is featured in an hour long special “Favourite Tracks from Favourite Artists” when he chooses the music and chats about his career, including Talisman and Journey Get … Continue reading →

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Gig review: JEFF SCOTT SOTO – The Tivoli, Buckley, 23 June 2014

Posted on June 24, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Setlists.fm is a blessing and a curse. Notwithstanding the occasional inaccuracy it has proved a boon to lazy or forgetful reviewers but also a useful tool to evaluate the worthiness of a tour. And recently I used it to decide … Continue reading →

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Album review: W.E.T. – Live In Stockholm

Posted on March 4, 2014 by andynathan

Frontiers Records [Release date 21.02.14] The nearest to a supergroup in the current melodic rock world, W.E.T. have within a short space of time become one of the darlings of the genre. So hot on the heels of last year’s excellent … Continue reading →