Hearts On Fire (Melodic Rock, AOR, Honduras)

The group traces to 2017 when founded by Honduras based guitarist Jean Funes, whom got his start in Codigo Eterno, recording a pair of albums in Codigo Eterno (2008) and Canten La Tierra Y El Cielo (2011), but is best known for his work in Sound Of Eternity and its initial offering (also MRR) Visions & Dreams (2014). Whereas Sound Of Eternity is pretty much the English equivalent to Codigo Eterno, noting how Visions & Dreams features English versions to eight Codigo Eterno songs, and combines modern elements within a melodic rock framework, Hearts On Fire is its own band. It sidesteps, for instance, any previous modern inclining while correspondingly composing all unique material in being ‘born from a place of true inspiration’ (referencing its press material).

The vision on the part of Funes to ‘create an AOR/melodic hard rock band in the style of his lifetime heroes, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Scorpions and Europe’ (again, noting its press material) led to the groups founding. He initially recruited Codigo Eterno drummer Joel Meija, who shares a similar passion and vision to create new music, and later vocalist Richard Andermyr (Rian), rounding out the Hearts On Fire lineup when introduced to Funes by MRR owner Andrew McNiece. The newly formed power trio soon began work on Call Of Destiny, a name chosen by the group (in Funes’ own words) ‘because we believe that it’s our fate to create music and deliver a message from the heart to the listener. Everything happens for a reason and we are together doing this, even with the fact that we are separated by an ocean, so far from each other.”