Strong

The Dark Element (and ex-Nightwish) vocalist Anette Olzon delivers the new solo album, Strong via Frontiers Music. Anette's second solo album, following 2014's Shine, it offers a harder, faster musical offering compared to her debut. More importantly, Strong stakes a claim for Anette's well-deserved standing as one of the world's top female metal vocalists. The music was written and composed together with acclaimed Swedish guitarist and producer Magnus Karlsson. Together, Anette and Magnus managed to create an outstanding collection of songs which showcase Anette's enormous vocal range alongside Karlsson's incendiary riffs. The songs are heavy, but still quite melodic and contemporary in their approach to the genre style. The 11-track collection was mixed by Jacob Hansen (Pretty Maids, Volbeat, The Dark Element). All in all, Strong is an album that masters the borders between heaviness and hookiness, all while showing an artist who doesn't rest on her laurels, but heads boldly into the future.