Eagle Flight

Eagle Flight is the first record by the second incarnation of Revolution Saints. Jack Blades and Doug Aldrich left in 2022. Deen Castronovo, left holding it, had rejoined Journey the year before and had his appetite for singing back. Into the two empty chairs came Joel Hoekstra of Whitesnake and Trans-Siberian Orchestra on guitar, and Jeff Pilson — currently in Foreigner, formerly of Dokken — on bass. The label called this Mk II. The single “Eagle Flight” arrived on 28 November 2022, the video for “Need Each Other” on 6 January 2023, and the album on 21 April. Alessandro Del Vecchio still produces and plays keyboards, and that single thread runs unbroken from the first incarnation. There are ten tracks. The run through “Talking Like Strangers,” “Kids Will Be Kids” and “Crime of the Century” loses none of the Journey gloss for all the turnover. It makes plain what the core of this project always was: Castronovo's voice, and nothing else.