SUNSTORM Returns With New Album 'Restless Fight'

AOR/melodic rock quintet SUNSTORM will release its third album, "Restless Fight", on November 22, 2024 via Frontiers Music Srl. The first single, "I'll Stand For You", is available now alongside an accompanying visualizer.

SUNSTORM is a project created, overseen, and directed by Serafino Perugino, president of Frontiers Records, and it was originally designed to showcase a musical style similar to singer Joe Lynn Turner's melodic rock/AOR roots.

With the new album "Restless Fight", the third to feature Ronnie Romero, SUNSTORM changed its skin. The new lineup that backs Romero, comes from a heavy background. On guitars, Aldo Lonobile, musician, songwriter and producer (Geoff Tate's SWEET OBLIVION, ARCHON ANGEL featuring Zak Stevens, RING OF FIRE featuring Mark Boals),Andrea Arcangeli (from the Italian progressive metal band DGM) on bass, Alfonso Mocerino (ex-TEMPERANCE, VIRTUAL SIMMETRY) on drums and Antonio Agate (one of the most talented Italian keyboard players and arranger for symphonic orchestras, featured in countless albums) on keyboards. It brings back SUNSTORM's classic AOR/hard rock formula with a strongest dose of energy, reaching a more dynamic and bombastic approach.

Ronnie Romero expressed his enthusiasm for the release, by saying: "I really love the new album! I believe it keeps the SUNSTORM essence with an AOR base, but brings a fresh more guitar-oriented and heavier sound. The new song 'I'll Stand For You' is the perfect example, where the melodies are still very important. It was fantastic to work with Aldo for the first time and I believe the fans are going to like the album very much!"

Since the inception of the new album's production, the discussion was centered on the concept to keep the roots of SUNSTORM's musical style: the AOR sound of the early records that everyone wanted, but with a special attention to the 1980s way to arrange the guitars and keys in order to reach more powerful vibrations. The aim was to give a fresh appeal to the new music so that it could be the perfect foundation for Romero, that with his powerful vocal style, once again is the perfect fit to deliver the goods for the music.

The result is "Restless Fight", an album where Ronnie's vocal acrobatics sit perfectly into Lonobile's way to play guitars, clearly influenced by the 1980s guitar heroes such as Jake E. Lee and Steve Stevens, to name a few.

"Restless Fight" track listing:

01. I'll Stand For You
02. Love's Not Gone
03. Hope's Last Stand
04. Shot In The Dark
05. Without You
06. Restless Fight
07. Running To You
08. Against The Storm
09. In & Out
10. Dreams Aren't Over
11. Take It All

Since 2021, SUNSTORM has featured one of the most impressive vocal talents of recent years, LORDS OF BLACK and RAINBOW singer Ronnie Romero. Romero's debut album with SUNSTORM, "Afterlife", was released in early 2021 and showcased a rejuvenation of SUNSTORM's previous musical formula, mixing melodic rock/AOR with more 1970s-oriented hard rock, ala RAINBOW (for which Romero performed as the singer).

Romero's voice and prolific musical activity have brought him to the forefront of the hard rock/metal scene where he can be seen/heard with Ritchie Blackmore's RAINBOW, MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP, LORDS OF BLACK, THE FERRYMEN and ELEGANT WEAPONS with JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner.

Romero is also a prolific solo artist, with the release of his first two cover albums, "Raised On Radio" and "Raised On Heavy Radio" — where he pays tribute to legendary artists from the metal world — and his latest work, "Too Many Lies, Too Many Masters", the first to feature all-new original material, released in September 2023.

SUNSTORM is:

Ronnie Romero - Vocals
Aldo Lonobile - Guitars
Andrea Arcangeli - Bass
Antonio Agate - Keys
Alfonso Mocerino - Drums