JORN – Heavy Rock Radio

Heavy Rock Radio from Jorn is a wonderfully produced covers album featuring a refreshing albeit eclectic selection of songs done in Jorn’s signature Traditional Metal style and featuring, of course, the legendary vocal prowess of Jorn Lande. Tracks range from standard Metal hits like, DIO’s “Rainbow In The Dark”, to Pop and Classic Rock cuts like Frida’s “I Know There’s Something Going On” and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'”, respectively.

Even the softer songs like The Eagles, “Hotel California” have a, perhaps unavoidable, hard edge to them and while this lends some extra power to many of the more melodic tracks, some of them don’t make the Pop-to-Metal translation so well. Jorn’s established Metalhead fan base might have a hard time with “I Know There’s Something Going On” and the Kate Bush classic, “Running Up That Hill”. The 2nd half of the album is the harder material and will no doubt be a joy for the general Metal audience. Heavy Rock Radio is very well done but essentially seems to just be a collection of songs that Jorn Lande and the band felt like recording for the fun of it.