Sledge Leather Imagine Me Alive Tracks: 1. Torch 2. Fast Forgiveness 3. The Lost Forgiveness 4. The Guy Upstairs Lied 5. Her Father's Daughter - Reprise 6. A Taste of Night 7. Illusions Opus 1 8. Sisyphus 9. Imagine Me Alive 10. Her Father's Daughter 11. One Glimpse Line up: Leather Leone - Vocals Sandy Sledge - Drums Scott Warren - Keyboards Jimmy Bain - Bass Matthias Weisheit – Guitar Record Label / Year of Release: Metal UP Records 2012 Notes: Former DIO members Scott Warren (keyboards) and Jimmy Bain (bass; also ex-RAINBOW) make guest appearances on "Imagine Me Alive", the debut album from SLEDGE LEATHER, the new band featuring former Chastain singer Leather Leone. In a recent interview with Maximum Metal, Leone stated about Sledge Leather, "I never lost touch with [Sandy] Sledge and I'm sure Delphine, if she was still alive, would be calling me. Sledge and I decided that we still had something to say. We wanted to finish what we started so we formed Sledge Leather. After doing a demo tribute recording of DIO's song 'Egypt', we were immediately booked to play the Keep It True festival in Germany." When asked if the Sledge Leather album was completed and what fans can expect to hear from it style-wise, Leone said, "We're really excited about the opportunities that we're being given. It's great for me to finally have a huge say in what's written and how it's written. With Sledge, I feel like it's writing with a soulmate — same beliefs, same ideas — because we are writing what comes to us naturally and what comes to us naturally is HEAVY music. This is metal. It's just 'metal.' Heavy, metal." Leather Leone recorded a cover version of the DIO classic "Egypt (The Chains Are On)" as a tribute to Ronnie James Dio in October 2010 at the Freedom Studio in Los Angeles, California. |