“El Hijo Pródigo” is a natural evolution from “Los Poetas Han Muerto”, well maybe a nice follow up since in that 2003 release the band was already a full hard rock band. The guitars and the melodies are catchy, melodic and fun, just like a nice hard rock album should be, the vocal work from new front man Ramón Lage is clean and fits perfectly with the mood of every song, perhaps he can’t reach some high pitch tunes like Víctor García could but you don’t really miss them in “El Hijo Pródigo”.

The songs even if they are not speaking about love or lost lovers, they all have a romantic atmosphere, a nice melancholic rock & roll spirit surrounds every song, making them a little more memorable and deep.

There are songs like “La Cara Oculta de la Luna” that have some guitar solos that take you back to the years when Avalanch was power metal, great display by Alberto Rionda and Daniel León interlacing riffs all over this album.

The great majority of the songs are hard rock ballads, perhaps too many ballads on this one, they are still nice is just that it becomes a little too…cute at times.

“El Hijo Pródigo” is a nice “romantic” hard rock album, catchy and melodic, with some great fun solos and intricate guitar work, is just a little sad because it contains a little too much ballads, a few more hard rocking tracks would have make this a little more interesting and memorable.