Fierce Discontest

In 1985, Atlantic Records released the debut album from FIERCE HEART. Fronted by the extraordinary talents of guitar icon Rex Carroll, the band received high praise in the music press - Guitar Player Magazine, Billboard, Kerrang, Metal Forces and Guitar For The Practicing Musician. Then in 1986, Rex Carroll formed the successful group Whitecross and also played in the critically acclaimed band King James while the New singer for Fierce Heart Robert Reynolds headed up the band Grave Danger from L.A. Following the original Atlantic album release AOR BLVD Records contacted Rex for an official, sanctioned re release. This project became a springboard, with a performance that followed at the Melodic Rock Festival. Fierce Heart was the surprise hit of the festival with fans turning out in droves, demanding the permanent reformation of the band and a new album.

Whilst The Fierce And The Dead are hardly progressive rock in its more classical sense, having a penchant for more snappy immediate-ness, than never-ending cycles of music held together by keyboards and synths, they are progressive when it comes to updating their music. Once bastions of the loud riff, and on The Euphoric you can certainly get plenty of them, the standout change is the addition of (ironically) synths. Less widdly diddly, and more in time with the current Stranger Things vogue, they add a unique sense of individuality to the music which channels that 80’s nostalgia and turns it into a paean for a more fun era.