EUROPE Want To Return To Classic 80s Melodic Hard Rock Sound On New Album - "I Think That We Should Go Full Circle," Says JOHN NORUM

Europe guitarist, John Norum, is featured in a new interview with Rockpages.gr, in which he discusses his new solo album Gone To Stay, what he thinks of of Ghost and Hammerfall, his favourite David Bowie era, and the last great hard rock band. He also reveals that Europe will enter the studio in May '23 to begin recording their new album.

Rockpages.gr: John, last but certainly not least: I love almost all your albums and I totally respect your wish to go down on a different musical path after your reunion in 2004. But everybody wonders if we will ever get to hear another Europe record with the classic sound, the classic style?

John Norum: "The answer is: yes! That’s exactly what I want to do right now. As we speak, we are writing the new songs because we are going into the studio next May. I said to the guys we have tried and experimented with different styles… we have done metal, we have done grunge… we had experimented with all those different tunings that you can imagine… so I said to the guys that it’s high time to return to our classic style and record a melodic hard rock album like we did in the old days. I think that we should go full circle and do an album like we did in the mid-80s. That’s what I am hoping for. Hopefully we will do that."

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