Score another hit for the European melodic rock arena!  Released by Frontiers Music, srl, Swedish based, Cruzh, drops their debut album on August 26th.  Make room in your library, this is another keeper that spans all music fan demographics.

This three year in the making album defines the term “melodic rock”!  Influenced by such 80’s and 90’s superstars as Def Leppard, Toto, FM, Winger, Danger, Danger, Firehouse and Bryan Adams, Cruzh’s debut album is filled with beautiful power ballads; wedding worthy, “Straight From My Heart” and soul searching, “Anything For You”, the littlest bit of New Wave in “Hard To Get”, “Aim For The Head” hits the true classic melodic mark along with my favorite, “Survive”.

Cruzh, formed in part, by the ashes of the Swedish glam rock band TrashQueen, stayed under the radar for a time, releasing one successful single after another in a shroud of unidentifiable human images, until they decided to reveal the all the members in the Fall of 2013 with the release of “Hard to Get”.  In 2015, they signed with Frontiers Music to record their debut album which includes the previously released “In A Blink Of An Eye”, “Stay” and “Hard To Get”.

Founding members, lead vocalist and keyboard player, Tony Andersson and bassist, Dennis Butabi Borg, has this to say about the record and the collaboration:

‘We all share the love for Melodic Rock,’ says Dennis, ‘but in the meantime we all have very different musical background and inspirations. This shows in our songs’. ‘When we started out, almost immediately I felt this synergy in the band,’ adds Tony, ‘and despite our musical backgrounds and differences, we all head in the same direction.’ ‘When a piece of music is coming to me and I am developing someone else’s work, I am filled with some sort of emotion that I want to convey,’ concludes guitarist Anton Joensson, ‘it’s easy to do this in a natural way with CRUZH because I could not feel more at home with our band and the music we create. This is also true with Tony and Dennis. This is who we are!’

Produced by Erik Wiss at Wiss Music Productions, Cruzh’s album is now available worldwide.  Let’s hope we hear a lot more from them in the future because they are, indeed, one of those gentle, but yet, driving forces that keeps melodic rock alive and so loved by so many!

Cruzh is:

Dennis Butabi Borg – Bass

Anton Joensson – Rhythm, lead and acoustic guitars on all tracks, backing vocals

Tony Andersson – Lead vocals on all tracks, keyboards

Album Credits:

Erik Wiss – Piano on “Anything For You”, intro on “In N’ Out of Love”

Louisian Boltner – Drums on all tracks

Mattias Silfver – Backing vocals on all tracks

Martin Johansson – Backing vocals on “Anything For You”

Patrik Norén – Backing vocals on “Aim For The Head”

Track List:

In N’ Out Of Love

First Cruzh

Aim For The Head

Anything For You

Survive

Stay

Hard To Get

You

Set Me Free

Before I Walk Alone

Straight From My Heart

Review by: Siege (CJ) / BackStage360