Originally published by L.S. Media. September 14th 2010.

Marseille are finally back and kicking in the best way possible. After a couple of years touring and ironing out any frustrations they may have felt along the way, the band have at last released their fourth studio album and the first one since 1984’s Touch The Night.

Craftily calling their new album Unfinished Business is a reminder to all the fans of the band that when the group dismantled there was indeed something left unsaid. Indeed within certain rock circles it has always been a game of what if and how far could they have gone within the ranks of others that came under the banner of NWOBHM.

The band has changed personnel since those heady days of touring with the likes of Saxon and only two of the original members are still in the group. Neil Buchanan, who of late has been a personality in his right as one of children’s TV household names with programmes like Art Attack and Number 73 and guitarist Andy Charters, both of whom have not lost any of the magic that was all too fleetingly glimpsed upon in the late 70’s.

Joining the band is Nigel Roberts on vocals and whose enthusiasm for the music is infectious and can be clearly heard on tracks such as the wonderful Thunder like dig of Rock Radio and the stomping Raise Hell.

Added to these three old stalwarts of the music industry are Gareth Webb on drums and the sensational bassist Lee Andrews, both of these men have added a certain something to the finished product of the album.

From start to finish the album hums along like a Jaguar after a 100,000 mile service and you just know that you have to let this beast out for a test drive and see where the road and the journey takes you.

Unfinished Business is a fine album that is worth exploring and a proper revisit to the heady days of the early 80’s British Heavy Metal scene.

Ian D. Hall