The break has hurt you not a bit, quite the opposite, because "Wonder Days" is enormously from fresh, energetic and without a single weak point. Luke Morley has still grooving the fattest guitar sound of the whole Hard Rock Circus, Harry James and thumps as hell, and Goldkehlchen Danny Bowes have to lose any more words, with his eternally young, bluesy soulful emotive vocal organ he is really simple, easy nowadays the best singer of his generation, which is in line with Paul Rodgers and the young David Coverdale. 32 years after their first joint single "I Survive" (then still under the Terraplane banners), the three plus long-term bassist Chris Childs (Ben Matthews had unfortunately illness expose) still both whippersnappers and contemporaries, where the Bartel the Most outdated.
Anspieltipps ban here almost, but the first single (and album opener) "Wonder Days" shows the strengths of Thunder anno 2015 perfectly bundled heaviest Groove, fat guitars, singing divine - and a chorus that gets stuck in your ear immediately. Luke Morley is not only a Saugeiles guitarist, but also one of the best songwriters who has ever seen the UK Hard Rock. In addition, there's with "The Prophet" is a surprisingly hard, heavy uptempo number with strong UFO flip side, the great, with soul elements studded ballad "Broken", the Fifties-heavy, off-going animal Rock'n'Roller "I Love The Weekend "and probably best song of the disc, the airy, reminiscent of the AOR-influenced Terraplane times" Resurrection Day "with a hell of melody that despite melancholic tenor a wonderfully positive atmosphere radiates - like after twenty years the old favorite pair of jeans rediscover, to be glad that they still fit.
Who may not even know Thunder, then place in the Special Edition ne hour live Mucke from the Wacken Open Air 2013, which passes as a mini-Greatest Hits and the fun and the joy of playing a Thunder show captures really well. Conclusion: a thoroughly enjoyable package that should be in every self-proclaimed rock and rollers in the collection and represents an early stage of the annual highlights.