Belly Of The Beast

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If I’m honest, I’m not an expert on all of the twists and turns of Joe Lynn Turner’s career, but Belly Of The Beast is still utterly removed from what I was expecting. I thought I would get an album of sophisticated, mid-road and not particularly threatening music, yet all delivered by a fantastic voice.

Joe, who recently signed with Mascot Label Group, has emotionally spoken of his journey when announcing the 28 October release of his album Belly Of The Beast. days ago LIES!: Dutch metallic hardcore gang drops video for “Propaganda” (ft. Hugo Zerrad – Worst Doubt) via Invisible Oranges; 2nd album comes early December There are no pretensions on this album. You read the title, you hear the lyrics, you know what each song is about, and each one hits you straight between the eyes (sorry, I couldn’t help it). This song has a brooding menace, telling you exactly what motivates our Joe, “your deadly sin, I feel no shame.” It’s been a long time since I listened to Joe Lynn Turner. Probably 1984 and Rainbow’s ‘Bent Out of Shape’ if I’m brutally honest. But my tardiness does the man a disservice, for his catalogue of music is superb. At the age of 71 he’s been able to reveal that he wore a hairpiece since the age of 14, due to a diagnosis of alopecia at the age of three. And for that he deserves huge respect. This chapter saw him make a crucial personal decision too. Diagnosed with alopecia at three-years-old, he began to wear a wig at 14-years-old, dealing with “emotional and psychological damage from cruel bullying in school.” So, he wore the hairpiece throughout his career until finally deciding to go without it.

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It happened completely by accident, but some of the best things happen by accident,” Joe notes. “I was not very familiar with Peter‘s bands PAIN and HYPOCRISY, but when we met, I loved his personality, and I felt like we had a chemistry together. On the writing side, you have to change and grow to mature. I had this in me. As far as pushing into a heavy vein, Peter said, ‘ Joe adapted his voice,’ which is the truth. It’s still me though. I kept it dirty, gritty, and metal.” A number of the songs are apocalyptic in lyrical content and equally apocalyptic in musical delivery! He has taken a look into the pit of despair and written about the breakdown in society that the worse in humanity can show us.

Rise Up” sums up the vision with a catchy clarion call. “It says we’ve been deceived and lied to,” he goes on. “We’re not going to take it anymore. Rise up, because they will trample you if you don’t. You have to fight to be free.” I have to tell you that since the ’80s, this boy has got angry, this boy has got bad, and we’re only on the second song. All credit to the production as well. This is smoothly crafted Metal that still keeps its edge, and I’m hooked and willingly taken along for the ride. Joe’s voice is perhaps a shade lower than I remember, but he’s lost none of his smooth power. That’s a sheer pleasure to listen to. This is dark. This is ominous. This is brooding. Goddam, this is good.Cue Belly Of The Beast, and despite the album title, despite the ominous and frankly pretty damn scary artwork, I was kind of expecting more or less the same. Don’t Fear the Dark’ reminds me of Dio, and in a very good way. But Joe Lynn Turner is very much his own man, so don’t let the comparisons fool you. The song positively pumps along. With ‘Fallen World’ JLT tells us all that is wrong with the world, and has some swirling keyboard and guitar to support it over an almost spoken word/rap delivery in places. That same year (1987), he joined Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and recorded the album Odyssey. [7] The brief tour that followed the release of the album included a concert in Leningrad, which was recorded and then released as Trial by Fire (1989). [7] Later that year he left the band. [7] Deep Purple [ edit ]