SALEM HILL

On their debut this american band blends typical AOR with 80's progressive rock. 80's Rush, Marillion and IQ come to mind as possible influences. The music is melodic, with soft vocals and keyboards, but also with some good hard rock guitar playing as well. It's well performed and catchy. But it's evident that they hadn't developed their definitive sound yet and the AOR feeling is predominant here, so I think this is not really an interesting release for the prog rock lovers. I wouldn't say that it's bad music, though, so it's not a bad purchase if you want to have their complete discography. For the purposes of this site it's a 2'5 stars album.