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Flight

by Flight

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Milo Bloom
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Milo Bloom Classic early 80's style metal backed up by solid songwriting and outstanding guitar. Favorite track: Nightrider.
Héctor Hurtado Grooscors
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Héctor Hurtado Grooscors This album was one of my favorite of 2015. They're from Norway, and the band delivers a record that it's a time travel machine directly to 1983, an excellent example of the heavy metal revival. This album will be appealing to fans of UFO, Riot, Iron Maiden, early Def Leppard, and more.
Bucky
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Bucky ...The primal chords hone a metallic edge, slicing like an air guitar hero hopped up on smoke and whiskey. Each and every song breaks away from the day to day verse chorus verse for a trip across the Thin Lizzy highway riding on the back of Iron Maiden.... Full review here: ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2015/10/flight-flight.html
paul rote
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paul rote Long lost classic from 1982 or ,brilliant modern day replica ?
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Flight 04:54
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Lions Den 05:37
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Nightrider 04:40
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Escape 04:51
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Devil Woman 04:46

about

Stealing a classic riff is easy enough, but commanding the ineffable spirit of an era is something far trickier, and this is exactly what Norway’s Flight have managed with their brand new platter on Bad Omen. Above the time-honoured move of kicking off an eponymous debut album with an identically eponymous song, this youthful four-piece show themselves so adept at summoning the aura of the late New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in all its blue-collar, earthy glory that one could imagine this album sharing record rack space with ‘Number Of The Beast’, ‘Diver Down’ and ‘Screaming For Vengeance’.

“Heavy metal was always the kind of music we would listen to the most at parties, as opposed to the harder stuff we usually played in our former bands. It was pretty much our preferred genre of hard rock and for some reason we didn’t play it ourselves. So, we had to do something about that,” the band note. “Both Chris and Jonas are huge Judas Priest fans, and Herman is really into Iron Maiden, so it came natural to end up with a late ‘70s/early ‘80s sound rooted in British rock. In regard of sound we wanted something in the vein of Priest on ‘Sin After Sin’ – just the overall feel to it.”

Indeed, whilst this breathless platter boasts more than its fair share of nods to their heroes. such as the ‘Transylvania’ style instrumental fury of ‘Nightrider’ and the pure-and-simple Neat Records grit of ‘Devil Woman’, it’s also possessed of expanses beyond either the zone of a late-‘70s pub or a hazy memory of the Reading Rock Festival – ‘Escape’ in particular transports the mystical spectres of both Y&T and UFO across time and space to a mighty sci-fi paperback realm with both charm and finesse.

Boasting more than a love for the gritty riffing, earnest melodic vocals and twin harmony leads of the late-’70s and early-’80s, and beyond the fantasy landscapes and dangerous women of the lyrics, ‘Flight’ is possessed of chutzpah, bravura and unpretentious zest that taps into something more enduring and primal. These songs are heavy metal as communion with a simpler time in the past, yet also proof positive that heavy rock as life-affirming escapism is as potent in the early years of the 21st Century as ever it was, and seems inexorably bound to remain just so.

“Being in a band called Flight, and having a song called ‘Escape’ would make you think so,” the band note wryly. Escapism, just like a movie puts you in another universe for a specific period of time.”

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released October 16, 2015

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