For those unaware, The Rule of Three is the brand new collection of original rock songs entitled from acclaimed Hard Rock songwriter, multi- instrumentalist and UK broadcaster Ian Danter.

A follow up to 2015’s Second Time Around. Containing several co-writes with Ian’s long-time friend and former Shotgun Wedding bandmate Gray Ettrick with a number of special guests contributing play guitar solos.

The cast includes Wayward Sons’ Sam Wood and Chris Buck from Buck and Evans / Cardinal Black, as well as Ettrick himself and Ian’s guitar cohorts from his theatre rock project Leather And Lace – Jon Sudbury and Glenn Quinn. Quinn also co-wrote the epic ‘Generation Z’.

Songs like ‘One Over The Eight’ and ‘Route Of All Evil’ combine Ettrick’s punchy riffs with Ian’s inventive melodies and lyrics, while Ian himself wrote standout tracks such as ‘Pick A Side’ and the swirling, exquisite ballad ‘Landscapes’, while Ian’s long time best friend Keith Laurent supplies a fun tune in ‘I’ve Got A Problem’ that dates back to the band he and Ian formed as teenagers back in Birmingham during the mid 1980’s.

1. One Over The Eight
2. Fine Time to Die
3. Massive Passive Aggressive
4. Pick A Side
5. Landscapes
6. Generation Z
7. Route of All Evil
8. Whatever Happened
9. I’ve Got a Problem
10. I Was There
11. Last Chance Wagon

The album opens on the brilliant pair of rockers One Over The Eight and Fine Time to Die and those are followed by the harder rock of the aptly-titled Massive Passive Aggressive, the euphorically-charged Pick A Side and then comes the AOR magnificence of the quite stunning Landscapes and the soaring Generation Z.

Next up is the pounding Route of All Evil and the Extreme-esque Whatever Happened and they are in turn backed by the alt-pop-rock of I’ve Got a Problem, the album rounding out on the funky rock styling of I Was There, coming to a close on the frenetically rambunctious Last Chance Wagon.

Ian Danter - Landscapes (featuring Chris Buck) [Official Lyric Video]