Earthrage

Earthrage, released on 23 March 2018, is the third album, tying the three personalities of Jeff Scott Soto, Erik Mårtensson and Robert Säll into heavier, more polished melodic hard rock. Soto's voice runs hot, while Mårtensson's guitar and Säll's keys and writing give the songs big hooks. Eclipse's Magnus Henriksson and Robban Bäck are alongside them as before. “Watch the Fire,” “Urgent” and “Kings on Thunder Road” lock hard riffs and clear choruses together vividly. This is not supergroup flash: the songs themselves are finished to a high standard. The album also landed at a creative peak for all three — Mårtensson coming off a successful Eclipse record with Ammunition ahead, Soto fresh from his own solo album and the debut of Sons of Apollo, and Säll having just completed a record with Steve Overland of FM and about to start Work of Art's fourth. The label boss calling it one of the finest records in Frontiers' history was not pure hyperbole. A record with the spirit of 1980s AOR and the pressure of a modern mix.