When you're dealing with very old bands, you have that sensation that you have to respect them. And for you all to know, age seems to crystallize a band's musical style, but it doesn't become weak or outdated. No, there are bands that, even after 20 or 30 years active, keep their style alive, and this is what makes difference in the end of it: their personality. And as a fine example, we can take "Metal Marines", the new album from the excellent Austrian band NO BROS.

The band is active since 1979, and their whole musical style has that same feeling from bands as DEEP PURPLE and BLUE OYSTER CULT, that mix of classic Hard Rock with some more heavier sound on guitars, and a good amount of musical weight on guitars. But this time, there's a good (and hooking) influence of AOR that permeates the entire album, specially due the musical accessibility we can feel on the refrains with melodic backing vocals. But it's another insight of their own style, so there's nothing wrong with this aspect.

The production did a fine work. Yes, because we can hear a fine sound quality, giving them a great clarity, and we can understand what each musical instrument is playing clearly. But there's that essential touch of weight that a Metal band must have.

The entire album is very good, keeping a homogeneous quality level for the songs. But I dare to name the hooking "Legends Of The Eighties" (full of fine vocals and with an outstanding work on guitars), "Back Again" with its seventies Rock and Roll feeling (and  again, very good guitar riffs), the heavy and nasty "Dance Of The Black Tattoo" (with an aggressive guitar playing, but as well, this song have a very good keyboards touches), the Hard'n'Heavy song "Metal Marines" (another great job from vocals, with some very high and thin tunes, but the rhythmic basis is doing a very good work as well, along with some good keyboards intervention), the balanced "Runaway Girl" (where a heavy atmosphere is balanced by some good amount of musical accessibility, creating a one of the album's greatest moments), and the energetic "A Night in Touch City".

All that's left to say is that these guys still have some lessons to teach for the new generations.