Mean Streak - Declaration of War2011 sophomore album from the Swedish Metallers. Mean Streak's debut album, Metal Slave (2009) caused a big stir in the world of Metal with their '80s influenced Heavy Metal. Rewarded with amazing reviews, the band started to get a lot of airplay, including a couple of songs aired on Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson's show on BBC 6.

Fantasma was fuelled by the gloom and doom of life during wartime and global economic meltdown

If I Didn't Love You 6

and it's first and fourth

Jonathan Wilson masterfully strikes a balance as he reaches back to the musical foundation of his upbringing while simultaneously moving forward by infusing the music with modern textures and aesthetic soundscapes

"Billy Ver Planck"

is drowned out by the orchestra

The perfect situation isn't only in dreams

who came from a working-class background

and Billy Higgins on drums

Despite his tragic death in a 'plane crash in 1964

It all ends with You Make the Rockin' World Go Round

made the swinging oldies Fujiyama Mama and Hot Dog