Stutter'zine Magazine
Holland & The Netherlands
7th Heaven - Silver

I remember a band called 7th heaven from long ago, but I am not sure if this is the same band,
although this Chicago based 7th heaven has been together for 18 years now, and with ‘Silver’ they have released a double-CD
with 30 songs in total and a playing length of almost 2 hours. Musically they are mixing the 80s melodic rock/aor with today’s
nu-breed pop-rock, ending up sounding a lot like the last Def Leppard record. There’s also some Glass Tiger, Outfield, Cutting Crew
and that sort of 80s Pop-rock in their music. The band has a good melodic lead singer called Andrew Blake (who also plays guitars
and keys) and all the choruses of their songs are catchy, hooky, and filled with harmony vocals in the famous Def Leppard style.
One more thing about the songs, they are all in the same style, most of the time mid-tempo and after hearing a few songs I was
actually quite enjoying this band. Highlights are Ghost of me (excellent mid-tempo AOR, this is very good and a dead-ringer for fans
of 1987 Def Leppard, Bryan McDonald, Michael Morales), Undone (great catchy mid-tempo melodic rocker), While you dream
(don’t you miss Def Leppard making these mid-tempo melodic rockers), On the inside (great strong mid-tempo melodic heavy rocker),
Invisible (strong mid-tempo melodic rocker), Misunderstood (mid-tempo melodic pop-rock, even a bit like Bystander),
Right by your side (FANTASTIC semi AOR ballad in a pure Foreigner/Alias/Signal style!) and Everlasting love (classy 80s uptempo
Melodic Pop-rocker). The only negative thing I could add is the use of a drum computer sometimes, like in the songs Ethereal,
Breaking me up, Cope, This pressure and Fall into you, which is not necessary, because then the band sounds a bit too modern and
are only for the Nu-Breed fans, although some of them are ven pure Dance/House!!!. However, in general, this 2-CD set fits
somewhere between the AOR releases of FRONTIERS RECORDS and the more Nu-Breed releases of ATENZIA RECORDS,
so it is definitely a high quality release. A must if you are liked the recent Def Leppard and Harry Hess albums.
(Points 8.0 out of 10)