【Pls look at the top comment first】In the past few decades, many hard/melodic rock bands and solo artists from Spain have left deep impressions on fans. In every past decade, there used to come out the influential bands or artists from Spain. No matter what language they perform, English or Spanish, the epic works by Spanish artists are popular and always worth hearing.

Hackers was founded in 2016 in Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island. Gran Canaria is far away from mainland Spain. But on the island, the fantastic sounds by Hackers can truly rock and touch Spain and more Spanish-speaking countries.

As a popular language on melodic rock, Spanish has already become the second biggest language after English to influence the rock industry. Even for non-Spanish speakers today, the music works sung in Spanish can be acceptable and spread widely overseas. Of course, this is very friendly for most melodic rock fans from Latin American countries.

In 2019, Hackers released the debut "Empezar de Cero", which means "Start From Zero" in English, featuring all the songs in Spanish. The debut is a good beginning for the band. From every detail of the debut, it is absolutely a great release, which should be known and heard, and make Hackers spread. Today it has been proved that they have made it with the debut.

It's no exaggeration to say that the debut from Hackers is unforgettable as long as aor fans have a try. Hackers should become a well-known legend, symbolizing the global top-class melodic rock icon in the 21st century.

Amazingly, "Empezar de Cero" was released independently without commercial label's distribution. Anyway, the quality of music creation and production is always the most important. If the music is good enough, it can promote itself. About two years in 2017 before the album releasing year, Hackers started to record this album. The independent album should never be overlooked especially a brilliant one with dedication by the musician. "Empezar de Cero" is not inferior to any albums released by the big label. With the success from the album, I think Hackers is no longer an unknown name in Spain and in Europe.

With the rapid development of internet, social media platform becomes a good way for independent band to promote their music and music activities. On facebook, Hackers is active and keeps updating until today. Six years have passed, they have posted many precious moments about album making, fans' support and gigs.

On Hackers' facebook page, they have posted many pictures on the gigs. Some of the gigs were very significant as the historic moments of the band, including the AOR Night Music Festival in Madrid and their support performance for the legendary Scorpions at the Grand Canary Arena in their hometown Las Palmas, Grand Canary.

Hackers' music is driven by splendid keyboards, filled with fantastic vibe. The magic keys perfectly match the lively and poetic guitars, which is the greatest charm that an excellent aor band owns. Except the intro, most of their songs last long for more than five minutes and include the hooks one after another and the highligt pushing the song to its climax.

Here the song is the 4th track "Tocando Fondo", the longest one from the album, lasting seven and a half minutes. But from each passage, it never gets boring for ears. Every detail is well arranged, poetic intro, bright verse, splendid chorus and this period of fantastic solo.

Guitarist Fran Alonso is one of the major composers for the band and vocalist Victor Guardia is the lyricist. Alonso is one of the representative figures among Spanish guitarists on the modern music scene, who is dedicated to Hackers promotion on his facebook page. He played with many artists. In 2022, he recorded in the new albums of Latin American aor musicians Eddie Vantez (Chile) and Nilver Perez (Peru).

The album includes no weak songs. The video clip for the theme title song "Empezar de Cero" was uploaded in the band's youtube channel. Their music works combine both 1980s nostalgic tunes with modern fresh tunes. The keys are melodiously arranged and the guitars are sentimentally displayed.

Musically, their songs sound in vein of Toto, Journey, FM, Strangeways, Outside Edge, Stan Meissner, La Fase (1990s Spanish aor treasure), 91 Suite, Lionville, First Night, Wild Rose and more. Everything wonderful can be found in Hackers' album. Sometimes their music arrangements remind me of Nordic keyboard-driven sounds. Anyway, music is always beyond languages.

On the past 20th December, 2022, Hackers' new song "Si Te Vas" came out, featuring a music video uploaded on their youtube channel. They make perfect aor sounds go on and let aor burn like fire.
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