Leverage - Above the Beyond (2021)

Leverage continues to showcase its contemporary heavy rock sound on new album "Above The Beyond", which takes influences from the golden past while still offering an own unique personality. There are plenty of ear-catching melodies delivered skillfully with pristine production on the band's latest album.

Finland's Leverage is not a power metal band nor an AOR band and definitely not a tribute to the 80s. Leverage doesn't easily fall into a genre category because for the band, it's all about making and playing music with heart and soul and having a blast doing it. Leverage thus has developed an own style of making heavy rock and that is the mission. The sonic stamp says Leverage. No more needed.

Leverage first landed on the scene in 2006 with the independent release of the debut album "Tides". With a blend of symphonic metal and melodic hard rock with some progressive metal twists, the guys created a buzz on the scene and were signed by Frontiers for the release of their second album "Blind Fire" in 2008, before moving to Universal/Spinefarm for their next album "Circus Colossus" (2009). The band became inactive not too long after the release of that third album though, sadly leaving fans craving more music from the band.

In 2018, Leverage returned with a new line-up featuring the amazing new singer Kimmo Blom (ex-Urban Tale, Raskasta Joulua) and new guitar player Mikko Salovaara. They first released the EP "The Devil's Turn" and then the full-length album "Determinus". The band showcased still being able to cover a pretty wide ground musically. Again: not power metal nor AOR nor thrash, but just great heavy rock with stunning melodies. That same result is also evident on the new record "Above The Beyond".