Dream and Deliver

Dream and Deliver, released in 2008, is the third album, on which Dreamtide layered glittering guitar, thick keyboards and soaring singing to draw European melodic hard rock's appeal carefully. The songs carry melancholy while the choruses open wide and lead the listener forward. In 2007 the bass passed from Ole Hempelmann to Francis Buchholz, formerly of the Scorpions, and it was recorded that same year. There is unity between the hard riffs and the delicate ballads, and the playing always sets melody at the centre. From the opening “A Fool's Crusade” through “Your Beat” and “Download a Dream,” the fourteenth track, “Download a Dream (Reprise),” draws the curtain quietly. Of the fourteen songs only the thirteenth, “Help Me,” is Olaf Senkbeil's; Helge Engelke wrote the other thirteen. The European release came at the end of August, on AOR Heaven. Everything this five-piece is loved for — sure playing, arrangements that stick, big choruses — is packed in. Engelke himself called their sound song-oriented rock music with hit potential. Lyricism without excess ornament, brought down into a polished sound.