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Great melodic rock! Imagine, if you will, that the Bon Jovi tour bus collided with the bus carrying the Scorpions. After dusting themselves off, the survivors decided to carry on the musical legacies of their former bands. If this were to happen, I think that they would sound like German up-and-comers Jaded Heart. Great vocals, plenty of guitars, and (Heaven Forbid, grunge lovers) good production add up to a very satisfying CD. Try to find their 3rd album, Mystery Eyes, if you like this one. It's also quite impressive.

JADED HEART is one of the hopeful mid-careered German pop metal bands contemporary of Slaughter, Danger Danger, Firehouse and Nelson twins. They formed a band in 1990 and made their first debut in 1994.

IV, also one of my all time favorites, is their fourth album in 1999. It is hard but really pop as well. Their music is metal version of the Eagles and some influence of Firehouse, Whitesnake and Europe can be seen. Particularly Hey God Don't Hesitate is pure late 70s Eagles with a little bit harder edge.

They became famous in Germany by Bon Jovi covers so their vocal style reminds me a bit of Bon Jovi. Songwriting is superb. It has lots of sing-along songs such as Live And Let Die, Way Back Home, Stonecold(it is Rainbow cover), With Your Eyes, But I Like It, She's A Woman. Their dramatic turn from ballad track to rocker(as seen in With Your Eyes/But I Like It) is amazing reminding me a bit of Fair Warning style. I take Easy Lover (cover of Phillip Baily and Phil Collins superhit in 1985) as a joke which should have been a Japanese bonus track.

Highly recommended if you love Whitesnake, Europe, Scorpions, Def Leppard and Bon Jovi as well as their contemporary American melodic rock bands.

1999's IV is - you guessed it - the fourth album from German melodic hard rock band Jaded Heart. Featuring vocalist Michael Bormann, Jaded Heart quickly established themselves as one of Germany's best melodic rock bands.

IV is probably the strongest of the Michael Bormann era Jaded Heart albums. The songwriting was very solid, the band seemed to really have their sound down, and Bormann finally seems comfortable singing in English. Jaded Heart strikes a nice balance between powerful melodic rockers ("Live and Let Die," "When You Hear the Thunder") and ballads ("Way Back Home"), and sound great all around. IV also features a pair of cover songs. Rainbow's "Stone Cold" is a good fit for Jaded Heart's sound, but the cover of Phil Collins' "Easy Lover" sounds a bit too odd to fit with the rest of the album.

If you're already a Jaded Heart fan, of course you'll want to own IV. It also makes a great starting point if you're unfamiliar with the band. I'd absolutely recommend Jaded Heart to fans of melodic hard rock in general, and bands like Gotthard, Bonfire and Fair Warning in particular.

Where do I start? WOW!! This is an amazing album!! The riffs are hard, the singer has pipes comparable to the one and only Sebastian Bach, the melodies are uncomparable. I wouldn't compare them to Bon Jovi at all. The guitar is much harder!! I compare the guitar to Judas, Scorpions, and Skid Row. The melodies aren't really comparable because they don't sound cheesy and over the top. But if I was too compare I'd say the melodies resemble WHitesnake and Firehouse. Germans again on top of the new rock movement!!! Scorpions first, now these guys. THese guys rock. It seems everything gets it's test in Europe first, then comes America. Us, trendy Americans think we always have the music first. It's funny though Europe always is the testing ground. WHat's big over there comes back here in a year or two. WELL ROCK IS COMING BACK!! ...