Scandinavia is slowly becoming a hot bed for majestic rock as well as sleaze rock and Issa is no exception to the quality of rock our European cousins are producing. Not since the likes of Chrissy Steele, Leigh Matty and Sandi Saraya has a woman shown us a pair of lungs that can look and sound so good!

Kicking straight in with anthemic opening 'Angels Crying' Issa marks her intent and delivers some of the best melodies poodle-permed rock has to offer! The opening bars start with a harmonic guitar and slide straight into the heavenly voice of the 26-year-old sex bomb! 'I'm Alive' continues the punchy emotive rock, which isn't too far away from Romeo's Daughter at their peak. The themes generally running through the album are that of strength and survival.

'Give Me A Sign' starts all acoustic before beefing up into a semi-ballad that would put many AOR scene veterans to shame. Incidentally the band that plays on this album comes from a pretty varied background, namely Masterplan, Helloween and Nick Lachey.

'Sign Of Angels' rocks like a beast for the more casual listener and yet offers so much more to the more dedicated listener. Definitely for fans of female fronted AOR and great music in general as that's what on offer here... great music. With instantly hummable tunes and soaring guitar and keyboards riffs. Issa offers it all.

Issa actually started out as a session singer and having sung on various albums for Gaia Epicus and Illusion Suite, she has also paid her dues by playing over 400 shows with various Norwegian acts such as Postigirobygget, Dde and Jahn Teigen. So far from being an overnight sensation, Issa is very much the real deal, coming to show you that she has more than enough balls to take on the men in this over populated testosterone pool of (cock) rock!

http://www.frontiers.it/album/4744/