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2021 solo album on yellow vinyl

The acclaimed Pretty Maids and Nordic Union vocalist Ronnie Atkins first solo album, One Shot, is a result of a personal crisis. Around Easter 2020 I was unfortunately diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and told it was incurable, which was devastating news for me. Needless to say, that was a total game changer and I went into kind of a panic situation for a while! But when the dust had settled. I realised there were two ways to approach the situation. I could sit down, accept the facts, and feel pity for myself or I could pull myself up, set some goals, pursue my dreams, and carry on living! And with fantastic back up from my family and true friends, I went for the latter, says Atkins. With the global pandemic shutting down touring for the foreseeable future, Atkins knew a tour promoting the latest Pretty Maids album, “Undress Your Madness” (2019) was not going to be in the cars anytime soon. Suddenly, the timing for working on a solo album seemed to have presented itself. Well, I couldn’t change the facts by any means. The whole world was on a lockdown and the future prospects of concerts were very uncertain and still is to this day! Basically, that meant that if I was gonna carry out the idea of a solo album, it had to be now since I don’t necessarily have all the time in the world. I had all these ideas that I felt were too good to never see the light of day and I was writing a lot at the time to help ease my frustrations, tells Atkins. Musicians appearing on the album include, in addition to band mate and producer Chris Laney is Allan Sørensen, Morten Sandager, Pontus Egberg, Anders Ringman, Pontus Norgren, Kee Marcello, Olliver Hartmann, John Berg, Linnea Vikström Egg, and Björn Strid. I wouldn’t have been able to carry out this project without the enthusiasm of Chris, who has been my constant partner in this project from day one. A good song is a good song, so it’s really a matter of how it is packaged. But I decided to make it appeal to the fans, the supporters who’ve been following me for almost 40 years, so this is basically a melodic rock album with a heavy twist. Lyrically, it also has a different approach. I found it hard to write about sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll, etc. due to the situation I’m wrapped up in, so I guess it turned out a bit more personal and maybe melancholic at times. But it reflects my thoughts at the given time these lyrics were written, concludes Atkins. While the creation of One Shot is bittersweet for a variety of reasons, it’s nonetheless another thoroughly wonderful melodic hard rock offering from one of the masters of the genre.

Track list:
1. Real
2. Scorpio
3. One Shot
4. Subjugated
5. Frequency Of Love
6. Before The Rise Of An Empire
7. Miles Away
8. Picture Yourself
9. I Prophesize
10. One By One
11. When Dreams Are Not Enough