STARDUST

Theofani Georgitsi
Jan 27, 2025
2 min read

Title: Highway To Heartbreak

Artist/Band: STARDUST

Country: Hungary

Release date: 09/10/2020

Company: Frontiers Music

Style: AOR/Melodic Rock

STARDUST is one of the hottest new AOR/Melodic Rock bands to come out of the underground European scene, is truly an AOR-star in the making! First musical notes in ears… “Runaway” and the journey began with keyboards of Dave Legrand. I choose tracks “Bullet To My Heart”, “2Nd Hand Love”, “Shout It Out”. This amazing band teach that musicians who believe in composition, talent and perfection of sound, are dedicated to music and belong to it. The result as a whole is an indescribably perfect miracle that unites with absolute harmony the old with the new, which can simply go crazy with the melodies, the rhythms, the atmosphere, the excellent orchestrations and the incredibly clean production of the album. I especially want to emphasize to Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker” cover… Bravo to STARDUST for choose of this song and bravo for their very decent performance! Perfection is achieved with the track “The River Is Rollin’” that sounds like a good old soundtrack. One of the best albums of the year so far that does not have any negatives. A must have one! STARDUST we waiting many more great stuff from you guys…!!! P.S. The mighty Mark Spiro (Bad English, House of Lords, Giant, L.Branigan, Cheap Trick, N.Schon, B.Mardones, D.Hasselhoff, T.Feehan, D.Dokken, Heart, L.Ford, R.Beck, J.Waite, Mr. Big, T.Pierce, Seventh Key, C.DeBurgh, L.Lane, Khymera etc.) and Swedish guitar hero Tommy Denander helped the guys with songwriting and production for their debut album.

Line-up:

Adam Stewart - Vocals, rhytm guitars

Ben Martin - Bass

Dave Legrand - Keyboards

Facey - Guitars

Tim Keeley - Drums

Songwriting: 10

Musicianship: 10

Production: 10

Album cover: 9

Total rating: 9,75

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