Band : Markonee
Album title : See The Thunder
Label : Escape Music
Distributor :  Escape Music - Connecting Music
Release Date : 13/11/2009
Release : CD

Is this really an Italian band was my first question upon entering this CD in my player ?  Yes they are.

Man, this must be one of the best albums of 2009 for all lovers of classic hard rock in the vain of Winter, Ratt, Gotthard to name but a few bands.
I seem to have missed their first album that came out some three years ago, and was named "The Spirit of Radio", which was a concept album around the invention of the radio by Guglielmo Marconi, hence the band name.
Since I missed the first album I cannot make a comparison between the two.  The vocalist Gabreille Gozzi has a good voice, and you cannot hear that he's Italian on top of that.  The songs are very harmonious, with driving guitars, backed up by thundering rhythms.
Sadly the album is only 45 minutes long, but the quality of the songs compensates this.
To once again prove that this band has undeniable qualities: they have already opened for bands such as Gotthard, Tyketo, House of Shakira and many others

90/100

Erik Morren.