TORONTO, CANADA (April 28, 2025) — Jack Starr’s new solo album,”Out of the Darkness Part II” is out now worldwide on CD and all digital services, via BraveWords Records.
Watch the video: Jack Starr “Rise Up” Official Music Video from Out Of The Darkness Part II on BraveWords Records
“Tremendously awesome record.” 9 out of 10. – Metal Command Podcast
“Out of the Darkness Part II” is a very good metal album with many timelessly beautiful songs. It’s fun to listen to it over and over again. – Keep On Rocking
“The music on this album is classic American 80s heavy metal of the powerful kind.” – Hard Rock Info
“Pounding drums and heavy guitars, it rips with anger and power.” – The Metal Mag
Track Listing:
Hand Of Doom
Endless Night
Into The Pit
Rise Up
Underneath The Velvet Sky
Tonight We Ride
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Sahara Winds
The Greater Good
Soulkeeper
Savage At The Gate (Bonus Track)
The Lesson (Bonus Track)
Giles Lavery – Vocals (Warlord / Alcatrazz)
Jack Starr – Lead Guitar
Eric Juris – Lead Guitar (Warlord)
Gene Cooper – Bass
Rhino – Drums (Ex Manowar)
Guests Mark Zonder – Drums (Warlord ex Fates Warning)
Jimmy Waldo – Keyboards (Alcatrazz / Warlord / New England)
Produced and mixed by Thomas Mergler
Co-Produced by Giles Lavery & Jack Starr
About Jack Starr:
Starr emerged on the rock and metal scene in 1981, forming, together with Joey Ayvazian, David DeFeis and Joe O’Rielly, the first incarnation of the heavy metal band Virgin Steele. The new band was selected in 1982 by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records to appear on the label’s compilation album U.S. Metal Volume 2. After only two albums, Virgin Steele of 1981 and Guardians of the Flame of 1982, Starr left Virgin Steele in 1983.
In 1984, Starr started his solo recording career with the album Out of the Darkness, featuring former Riot vocalist Rhett Forrester, members of The Rods and former Rainbow drummer Gary Driscoll. It was released in Europe by Music for Nations and was picked as one of the best albums of the year by the music magazines Kerrang! and Metal Forces.
Starr changed the name of his band to Jack Starr’s Burning Starr and between 1984 and 1989 he produced albums, both solo and with the band. The music of those albums was classic American eighties heavy metal, a style between Poison and Metallica. In 1989 the band dissolved and Starr joined short-lived bands like Strider and Smoke Stack Lightning.
In the following years, Starr once again assembled a group of musicians for a new incarnation of Burning Starr, which performed at the Magic Circle Festival 2008 and released the album Defiance on Manowar’s label Magic Circle Music in 2009. In 2011 they released Land of the Dead with Limb Music. The albums includes ex-Manowar guest musicians Ross the Boss and David Shankle. The band played at the 2013 Keep It True festival and recorded a DVD.
