Road of Desire
Road of Desire combines thick guitar riffs, forceful rhythm and melancholy-tinged melody in Damned Nation’s melodic hard rock.
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Track List
- Come Hell or High Water
- When the Truth Becomes a Lie
- Road of Desire
- Hold On
- Calling Your Love Line
- Soul Stealer
- I Got What It Takes
- Life Is a Mission
- The Reason I Live
- Love and Devotion
- Coming Home
- Endless Dream
Liner Notes
Road of Desire came out on 19 May 1999. A caution first: this is not the debut. Damned Nation formed in Sweden in 1993 and released Just What the Doctor Ordered in 1995, which makes this their second album, four years on.
Thomas Thorsén sings. It is built on thick guitar riffs and a forward rhythm section, with melancholic vocal melodies and keyboard colour laid over the top — squarely inside the standard grammar of Nordic melodic hard rock at that moment. Stepping outside it was still four years away.