Van Halen III

Van Halen III is a work on which VAN HALEN, welcoming new vocalist Gary Cherone, stepped into a wider range of song styles and longer developments than before. Eddie Van Halen’s guitar is as vivid as ever, but here the focus is not only on riff immediacy but on tone and atmosphere. Welcoming the former singer of Extreme, it is a record with a strongly experimental coloring. On “Without You,” “Fire In the Hole” and “One I Want,” the band’s new attempts unfold. Songs like “Josephina” and “Year to the Day” breathe an expression different from before too. Precisely because it is an attempt away from the band’s standard image, the adventurous spirit of the players shows. Though it did not fare well commercially, it is an intriguing record for knowing a different face of VAN HALEN in a period of change.