Leverage are pleased to share their new single and official visualizer video, “All Seeing Eye”, out now via Frontiers Music Srl. Stream/download the single here, and watch the visualizer below.
Guitarist Tuomas Heikkinen described the new single: “‘All Seeing Eye/ is the type of a heavy riffing song that I have been waiting to be able to write for ages. Or rather to have a singer capable of singing something like that. It is very much a bow to the classic heavy rock/metal I grew up with, but there’s naturally some Leverage twist in there, too.”
Following the untimely passing of singer Kimmo Blom in August 2022, Leverage’s future seemed uncertain. However, after some months of hiatus, founding member and main songwriter, Tuomas Heikkinen, decided it was time to give the band another shot of life. The result of this process of rebuilding saw the outstanding singer Paolo Ribaldini (Delain) and violinist Lotta-Maria Heiskanen joining the band with the precise task to renew and refresh the sound of the band.
The resulting album Gravity, which is the band’s sixth full-length album in slightly less than 20 years, aptly showcases contemporary heavy rock sound, which makes influence from the golden past while still offering their own unique personality. Plenty of ear-catching melodies delivered skillfully with pristine production on the band’s latest album.
Finland’s Leverage are not a power metal band, nor an AOR band, and definitely not a tribute to the ’80s band. Leverage doesn’t easily fall into a genre category because for the band, it’s all about making and playing music with heart and soul and having a blast doing it. Leverage thus have developed their own style of making heavy rock and that is their mission. The sonic stamp says Leverage. No more needed.
Leverage first landed on the scene in 2006 with the independent release of their debut album, Tides. With their blend of symphonic metal and melodic hard rock, with some progressive metal twists, they created a buzz on the scene and were signed by Frontiers for the release of their second album, Blind Fire in 2008, before moving to Universal/Spinefarm for their next album, Circus Colossus (2009).
The band became inactive not too long after the release of that third album though, sadly leaving fans craving more music from the band. In 2018, Leverage returned with a new lineup featuring singer Kimmo Blom (ex-Urban Tale, Raskasta Joulua) and guitarist Mikko Salovaara.
They first released an EP, The Devil’s Turn. and then a full-length, Determinus. The band showcased that they are still able to cover a pretty wide ground musically. Again, not power metal, not AOR, not thrash. Just great heavy rock with stunning melodies.
The band is now composed by longtime members Tuomas Heikkinen (guitars), Marko Niskala (keyboards), Valtteri Revonkorpi (drums), Sami Norrbacka (bass) along with Paolo Ribaldini (vocals) and Lotta-Maria Heiskanen (violin). Watch out for the band playing in a town near you!
Lineup:
Paolo Ribaldini – all vocals
Tuomas Heikkinen – guitars
Marko Niskala – keyboards
Valtteri Revonkorpi – drums
Sami Norrbacka – bass
Lotta-Maria Heiskanen – violin
(Photo – Johanna Ahonen)
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Guitarist Tuomas Heikkinen described the new single: “‘All Seeing Eye/ is the type of a heavy riffing song that I have been waiting to be able to write for ages. Or rather to have a singer capable of singing something like that. It is very much a bow to the classic heavy rock/metal I grew up with, but there’s naturally some Leverage twist in there, too.”
Following the untimely passing of singer Kimmo Blom in August 2022, Leverage’s future seemed uncertain. However, after some months of hiatus, founding member and main songwriter, Tuomas Heikkinen, decided it was time to give the band another shot of life. The result of this process of rebuilding saw the outstanding singer Paolo Ribaldini (Delain) and violinist Lotta-Maria Heiskanen joining the band with the precise task to renew and refresh the sound of the band.
The resulting album Gravity, which is the band’s sixth full-length album in slightly less than 20 years, aptly showcases contemporary heavy rock sound, which makes influence from the golden past while still offering their own unique personality. Plenty of ear-catching melodies delivered skillfully with pristine production on the band’s latest album.
Finland’s Leverage are not a power metal band, nor an AOR band, and definitely not a tribute to the ’80s band. Leverage doesn’t easily fall into a genre category because for the band, it’s all about making and playing music with heart and soul and having a blast doing it. Leverage thus have developed their own style of making heavy rock and that is their mission. The sonic stamp says Leverage. No more needed.
Leverage first landed on the scene in 2006 with the independent release of their debut album, Tides. With their blend of symphonic metal and melodic hard rock, with some progressive metal twists, they created a buzz on the scene and were signed by Frontiers for the release of their second album, Blind Fire in 2008, before moving to Universal/Spinefarm for their next album, Circus Colossus (2009).
The band became inactive not too long after the release of that third album though, sadly leaving fans craving more music from the band. In 2018, Leverage returned with a new lineup featuring singer Kimmo Blom (ex-Urban Tale, Raskasta Joulua) and guitarist Mikko Salovaara.
They first released an EP, The Devil’s Turn. and then a full-length, Determinus. The band showcased that they are still able to cover a pretty wide ground musically. Again, not power metal, not AOR, not thrash. Just great heavy rock with stunning melodies.
The band is now composed by longtime members Tuomas Heikkinen (guitars), Marko Niskala (keyboards), Valtteri Revonkorpi (drums), Sami Norrbacka (bass) along with Paolo Ribaldini (vocals) and Lotta-Maria Heiskanen (violin). Watch out for the band playing in a town near you!
Lineup:
Paolo Ribaldini – all vocals
Tuomas Heikkinen – guitars
Marko Niskala – keyboards
Valtteri Revonkorpi – drums
Sami Norrbacka – bass
Lotta-Maria Heiskanen – violin
(Photo – Johanna Ahonen)
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