The project is called Liberty N’ Justice, but if someone would take a look at the list of the musicians, would immediately realize it’s a sort of stars parade. Sixteen songs, sixteen different singers. Some quite celeber and important, like Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), Stephen Pearcy (Ratt) or Tony Harnell (TNT, Starbreaker). Other less, but anyway united together with the Christian cause of Liberty N’ Justice, practically a project by the duet Justin Murr and Patrick Marchand, helped by the producer Mike Layne (Leaderdogs, Mudvayne). I don’t know if it’s been the religious vocation to conceive this abundant hour of music, but “Soundtrack Of A Soul” is a really pretty album, an album that can make you discover what’s the meaning of having talent in the royal hard rock, often enriched of AOR shades. Necessarily the album is a bit dispersive, maybe because of the too many voices overcrowding it and trying to surface: effective Ted Poley (Danger Danger) in “Always Tomorrow”, disappointing Mark Slaughter (Slaughter) and Pete Loran (Trixter) for “Thy Will Be Done”, at ease Oni Logan (Lynch Mob) in “Show Me The Way” and Ez Gomer (Jet Circus) in “Kings OF Hollywood”. Impossible to succeed in understand anything: we’ve the feeling we’re listening to a compilation, even and especially for the poor homogeneity of the songwriting, which changes from song to song and results very swinging. Naturally, the usual list of illustrious names regard also the musical side of it. Some name: Mikkey Dee (Motorhead), Tim Gaines (Stryper), Keri Kelli, Tommy Denander (Radioactive), Harry Hess (Harem Scarem), Tim Bushong (Love War), John ‘JD’ Deservio (The Black Label Society), Charlie Calv (Shotgun Symphony). I cannot doubt the professionality of all of these people, and to manage such a project must have been very tiring. In the end the result is an album that sounds like a party among friends, where evidently it’s the Christian message to be more important than the music in itself.

Flavio Ignelzi