''Human Nature'' is the fifth album by American rock group Hardline with the modern line up featuring keyboardist

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, bassist Anna Portalupi, Francesco Jovino on drums and returning guitarist Josh Ramos with lead singer Johnny Gioeli. Originally it was announced during 2015 through a Facebook Video on their fan page from Johnny Gioeli and was originally titled ''Hardline 5'', where they would be recording new songs "throughout the summer". It is the first Hardline album to feature returning guitarist Josh Ramos (who had returned to the band during their 2013 Danger Zone tour) replacing stand in guitarist Thorsten Koehne who previously played on '' Danger Zone''. Ramos has not been featured on a Hardline record since 2009's''

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''. During the making of the new Hardline record, lead singer Johnny Gioeli announced he was working on his first ever solo album called '' One Voice'', where fans could support the album through the crowdfunding site Pledgemusic. During this time the new Hardline album title was announced to be called ''Human Nature''. On August 22, 2016, their label

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released the new music video ''Where Will We Go from Here''. On September 26 ''In The Dead Of The Night'' was revealed. A new track ''Take You Home'' was revealed as a music video by Gioeli and released on the Frontiers YouTube page a few months later on October 3, 2016. which would later on be revealed as Gioeli's personal favourite song on the album. The new CD was released on October 14, 2016. Gioeli likes to compare ''Human Nature'' to the sound of their first release, ''

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'', but with a fresh new twist.

Tour

Hardline toured the new album starting from May 21, 2017, starting in Italy. During their May 23, 2017 show at The Robin 2, in Wolverhampton, England, they dedicated the song "Human Nature" to the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing which occurred a day before. They also celebrated the 25th anniversary of their debut album ''

'' by naming their new tour "Double Eclipse 25th Anniversary Tour" which also featured a mixture of new tracks from the new album ''Human Nature'' and a heavily focused set of songs from ''Double Eclipse''. The next leg of the Human Nature tour was held through Germany and Switzerland during December 2017.

Track listing

All songs written by

and Johnny Gioeli.

Personnel

* Johnny Gioeli - Vocals *

- Keyboards, backing vocals, producing, recording, mixing, mastering * Anna Portalupi - Bass Guitar * Josh Ramos - Guitars * Francesco Jovino - Drums

Additional personnel

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- executive producer *Stan-W D - artwork *Riccardo Bernardi - photography

References

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