My album is finally released...

The friendly people of MAXMETAL has allowed me to do a review to the album MEMORIES of our friend michaeljessen, ... I love his album, I'm totally objective and so I wrote it, it's in Spanish but I leave here the translation. BLACKWATER is magic !!!!

www.maxmetal.net/2015/04/michael-jessen-memories/

RATE: 9 / 10

" ...The music lovers Hard Rock 80's are in luck with the release of MEMORIES (Massacre Records), an album of young Danish guitarist MICHAEL JESSEN. This musician gets with his songs take us to the golden age of bands like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Whitesnake or Europe, the Swedes are main influence of this musician who shows flavorings of his guitar master John Norum, who also collaborates in the CD with one prodigious, as we have come, in the fourth cut BLACKWATER. MEMORIES is a great debut, full of surprises, and that is that Jessen has not been enough to have gotten the masterful touch of Norum, but the singer of this large group of good songs is Göran Edman (ex - Yngwie Malmsteen) who also collaborated in the past with John Norum during her solo album "Total Control". Göran sings with so much soul and a powerful voice that makes it to high thrilling. Michael Jessen guitar sounds great and shares the spotlight with the magnificent voice of the singer, his solos are precise, very clean and full of strength.

The album begins with BROKEN HEART, one of my favorite, powerful rhythm with a very catchy chorus, it rises in intensity and has wonderful choirs, hallmark in all the work. It could be a song published in 86 of a band at the time, a perfect single that had occupied a privileged place in the charts at the time, in which the unforgettable rock bands shared foci with singers most pop bands and more decaffeinated. Followed MY OWN FUNERAL, maybe it's the song that sounds more current, a more modern rock, more content, and where the guitar is really strong. EVERYTHING COMES TO AN END, exceptional, we take a very melodic rock. And then BLACKWATER, great song, intense from the start, appears at this point the album Göran has delighted us with his extensive record voice, perfect for this style, the song has a wonderful chorus that pushes you beyond redemption, with its peak in the solo playing John Norum, exquisite and decorating mercilessly this great song. Probably the best on the album. And then comes the first ballad: THE ROSE, intimate, delicate, envelops, do not forget to listen. Someone able to compose so still has much talent show, reminds me the praised SCORPIONS and those slow songs that have always given us, this song could stay well between them The final guitar solo excited. RUNAWAY, and return to the fast pace, do not breathe, this song will not leave, Göran seems at times James Hetfield of METALLICA, amazing throughout the album, yes, listen and then give me reason. It follows PRISONERS, another impressive ballad, with a chorus that sounds perfect, rivaling THE ROSE, two issues that should be ringing in radios and exciting to the people. DREAMS DIE HARD, gaining prominence the drums, sounds really good, this is the party of more traditional melodic rock, at this point already hooked you sure, if you're a fan of the genre. LOST IN LA, we slow down, slow but more song spinning around her a very good melody accompanied again by Jessen guitar technique combining their good feelings that conveys in his songs. And we finished the album FREEFALL, instrumental song that has flashes of his hero Norum the style SHIMMERING HIGHS Norwegian, disturbing, deeply felt, and that puts a change very interesting song.

Excellent album of Michael Jessen, comprehensive loaded cane and very well played riffs, with beautiful melodies and wonderful nuances worked for the fabulous voice of Göran Edman. We must follow closely in the future, it is certainly very promising ... "