Stephen After leaving Crashdiet, Olli Herman a.k.a Olliver Twisted, joined up the Finnish melodic rockers, Reckless Love, and released their eponymous debut in 2010. Their musical style is melodic hard rock/pop metal with early glam anthem and surprisingly, combined with a bit touch of new wave element on several songs. I can see bands like Poison, Guns N' Roses, and Def Leppard became their major influences. The sound production is very satisfying and judging by a support from major label, Universal, the future is looking bright for the band.

"Feel My Heat" and "One More Time" are two solid openers, Poison-fused party anthem meets guitar-driven White Lion. "Badass" is like a lost GNR track from Appetite session, quite similar to their classic, "It's So Easy". Guitarist Pepe is pretty good, even though isn't spectacular, but you always find a short passage of heartkicker picking on his solos. "Beautiful Bomb" has a huge chorus and potential chart toppers. "Romance" is a contemporary midtempo rocker while "Sex" is a beautiful ballad with an explicit 80s pop influence, you can also say this is like A-Ha goes metal. The same goes with "Back To Paradise", a fun track which influenced by the dancy Duran Duran or Alphaville. And the best song of the album is "Wild Touch", that’s reminiscent of early Bon Jovi with a fantastic chorus. Couple of decent tracks and probably only "So Yeah!!" is passable.

Reckless Love is highly recommended for fans of later-day glam metal and perhaps for fans of casual 80s hard rock as well, but not for the traditional heavy metal or early glam metal otherwise you'll be disappointed. I find this band pretty unique and talented, I have high hopes for the upcoming album and a great fun especially if you crank it up loud on a hot summer days.