The Empire Strikes 1983

(The Empire Strikes from Finland. Garage/Action Rock/ Power Pop at its finest, The Empire Strikes is out to get you shaking! After two EPs in as many years the sweat soaked live show energy has been captured on tape for a debut album you’re going to listen now in spring 2015!
Formed in 2012, The Empire Strikes wants to sing the praises of high-energy rock ‘n roll. Live shows around Finland and in the Baltic have been the foundation this far and now it’s time to share the beat with a wider audience!!)The Empire Strikes from Finland. Garage/Action Rock/ Power Pop at its finest, The Empire Strikes is out to get you shaking! After two EPs in as many years the sweat soaked live show energy has been captured on tape for a debut album you’re going to listen now in spring 2015!
Formed in 2012, The Empire Strikes wants to sing the praises of high-energy rock ‘n roll. Live shows around Finland and in the Baltic have been the foundation this far and now it’s time to share the beat with a wider audience.

TRACK LISTENING:

1) Black’n White TV
2) The Ballad Of Sailor Hawkins
3) King Of The Jungle
4) Thunder
5) Magic Man
6) Goodbye
7) Pawn
8) Shame On Me
9) Saved By The Women
REVIEWS

Dario Bai – City Slang Zine #3 – Seattle (USA) 06/2015

If you don’t know who El Capi is you should be ashamed of yourself. He’s one of the few good things that happened to Rock ‘n’Roll in the last two years. He runs a weekly radio show from Spain where he resides and plays a bunch of new bands every Thursday night and believe me, that takes dedication. In one of the last episodes of last year he played a song  from This band from Finland and I was hooked right away. They stroke me ( no pun intended, ok maybe just a little one) with their melodies and the use of the Bigsby on several occasions and I manage to get in touch with them. They are also super nice and it turned out they were about to enter the studio to record their new album so we set a deadline with the promise of getting in touch when it was ready and see if I could get a copy for the ‘zine. That happened pretty fast and, in pure 21st century fashion, I got my advanced copy dropboxed to me in few days. Put the record on and it was love at first ear. "1983" is one of those records that makes you scream out loud – "about frikking time!!" I’m not gonna say that is perfect but, hell I’m gonna say it anyway. This is a damn perfect album. Once again, it’s only Rock ‘n’oll and it’s obvious that they studied the older bands from the Scandinavian scene very well but you can not write songs like "The Ballad of Sailor Hawkins", "Magic Man" and "Saved by the Women" if you’re not damn talented yourself. In my book this is easily the record of the year, hands down. Another young band to write down on the list for the role of "The New" ‘copters and these guys are right at the top of that list. Rock ‘n’Roll is not dead and until there are bands like The Empire Strikes, it will never die!