Hardreams - Calling Everywhere

\r\nHardreams is a Spanish band whose work hasn’t reached our country yet. They’re well known for their work, though, in Spain as well as for their live appearances as they’ve opened gigs for artists like Edguy, Bob Catley (Magnum), Vaughn (Tyketto), Firehouse and Jim Peterik(Survivor, Mecca, Pride of lions). After signing with Perris Records for their last album "The Road Goes On..." on 2008, Hardreams now decided to re-release an older album that was released on 2004 before making another record.\r\n

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\r\nConcerning this album, I haven’t got much to say. A typical hard rock/aor album with many mid tempo tracks, ballads and one or two faster moments, that sounds almost like Toto and Journey. Careful work has been done both in vocal lines and the general mood of the album but I think we’ve heard such stuff so many times before. Surely, Hardreams know exactly what they’re doing and none of the band members lacks in skills. But there have been bands both in the past and in present that have been playing the exact same way and even better all these years and honestly I can’t see the anything different or better offered from "Calling Everywhere". Personally I consider "I Don’t Know Why" as the album’s best moment. It’s a fair fact, though, that, with this level of professionalism, Hardreams have played opened gigs for such known bands and artists.\r\n

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\r\nI believe that "Calling Everywhere" was a just an appetizer for a much better album "The Road Goes On..." and this work was just the beginning for "Hardreams". Recommended only to hardcore fans of this genre and people who are curious to know about the band’s first steps.\r\n

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