Useless to remark that the presence of two tested hard & heavy icons like Johnny Gioeli (Hardline, Axel Rudi Pell) and Michael T. Ross (Hardline, Angel) already grants the quality of the final result. Accomplice, actually, seem willing to offer a traditionalist reassuring work: strong, coherent, melodic, powerful, able to exploit the production of the awesome couple Simon Phillips/Derek Sherinian. “She’s On Fire” sounds much closer to the Dokken-like class metal than to European melodic hard, as confirmed by the origins of the band (south California), with a guitarist like Sean Michael Clegg that performs in a remarkable guitar hero performance (as witnessed by the final instrumental “Last Hurrah”). Great solos, finger fastness, lynch-like games, all like in the eighties, all as if time had stopped, undeniably immortalized likewise the tattoo on the bottom of the back of a nice blonde. Also the tracklist follows the strict rules of twenty years ago: powerful opening with “Take Love” and “Party’s Over”, blues slowing with “Cry Again”, romantic ballad with “Everywhere”, and so on. The songwriting reveals a great experience and professionalism, as well as the badly hidden machismo of the old eighties, for a market that is back liking such products, after the grunge, crossover and nu metal bouffe. If you like their modus operandi dive into it, you won’t be disappointed.

Flavio Ignelzi