LIONHEART reveal first video from worldwide remaster of second album plus bonus tracks

“30 Years” – Lionheart‘s first single from the global release of Second Nature, to be released on January 21st, 2022 via Metalville Records – relates Dennis Stratton’s musical journey through the decades, from his time in Iron Maiden through Lionheart, Praying Mantis, and finally Lionheart again. The song’s lyrics are cleverly peppered with double meanings, and Stratton’s guitar solo is deliberately played in the style of early NWOBHM. The guitar harmonies and guitar dual between Stratton and Steve Mann are classic Lionheart, and the song’s fast pace is rounded off supremely by Lee Small’s typical soaring vocals. The band line-up is rounded off with Rocky Newton on bass and Clive Edwards on drums, with Rocky joining Stratton and Mann on the track’s classic three-part vocal harmony choruses.

You can watch the “30 Years” official video HERE at Lionheart‘s official YouTube channel.

The great 2017 Lionheart album, Second Nature, will be released worldwide for the first time on January 21st, 2022 via Metalville Records. To mark this special event, the album has been re-mastered to sound punchier than ever, and now also includes two bonus tracks.

In 2017, the album Second Nature hailed Lionheart’s triumphant return to the melodic rock music scene with a collection of powerful and memorable songs featuring the distinctive harmony vocals and harmony lead guitars for which Lionheart were so renowned.

The first Lionheart album to feature the extraordinary talent of Lee Small on lead vocals, Second Nature was released in Japan (on King Records) and Europe. Unfortunately, in 2020, the European deal lapsed and the album disappeared from the market outside of Japan.

Now Metalville Records have stepped up to the plate and are releasing a repackaged version of the Second Nature album and, for the first time, globally. The release will also include the remarkable “Circle Of Bands” chart by Tristan Greatrex, which has been brought up to date and which was up to now only available in the Japanese release. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Lionheart’s Second Nature
1. Prelude
2. Give me the Light
3. Don’t Pay the Ferryman
4. Angels with Dirty Faces
5. 30 Years
6. On Our Way
7. Second Nature
8. Prisoner
9. Every Boy in Town
10. Time is Watching
11. Heartbeat Radio
12. Lionheart
13. Mary Did You Know (bonus track)
14. Paperback Writer (bonus track)
15. Reprise

LIONHEART lineup
Dennis Stratton – formerly guitarist with Iron Maiden
Steve Mann – currently guitarist and keyboardist with Michael Schenker
Rocky Newton – formerly bass player and backing vocalist with McAuley Schenker Group
Clive Edwards – formerly drummer with UFO, Wild Horses, and Uli Roth
Lee Small – formerly lead vocalist with Shy and Phenomena

LIONEHEART discography
Hot Tonight (1984)
Unearthed – Raiders of the Lost Archives (1999)
Second Nature (2017)
The Reality of Miracles (2020)