FERREIRA – BETTER RUN!!! (2010)

Marco Ferreira is a Brazilian born musician and has released various of albums as solo and with French progressive metal band Venturia and Goodbye Thrill (they have a new album out aswell called Outrageous). On Better Run Marco has put together a band with his brother Alex on drums, long time friend Gus Monsanto (Revolution Renaissance, Adagio, Takara) on bass and vocals on one track  and a Patrick Sebastian from Finland on guitars. On Better Run they deliver melodic rock with a tougher attitude and bands such as Takara, Goodbye Thrill and some Nelson and Harem Scarem influences comes to mind.

The melodies are there even if they use little keyboards and I think that’s  a shame. Some of the song on Better Run has been on the earlier albums with Ferreira but they sound better on this release mainly because the production is a lot better. Set My Devils Free is a great rocker in the Harem Scarem land. Knocking On My Door is a good mid-tempo songs with a Nelson touch over it and the harmonies are damn good on this one. There’s couple of fillers like Rule In Self-defence, Rescue Me and Trust The Enemy on the album that takes away the wholeness of the album. This ain´t as good as the mentioned bands but there´s really nice moments and the albums from Marco Ferreira gets better and better for every release. But the artwork is really awful and they should have done a better one so don’t get fooled by the cover.

1. Secret damned society
2. Set my devils free
3. I want out
4. Knocking on my door
5. Better run
6. Rescue me
7. Rule in self
8. Crucified
9. Defense Trust the Enemy
10. History we make

Patrick Sebastian (guitars, backing vocals)
Gus Monsanto (bass, guitars, backing vocals)
Alex Ferreira (drums, backing vocals)

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