1) Sunstorm is the project group featuring lead vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (formerly of Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Yngwie Malmsteen), bassist/vocalist Dennis Ward and guitarist Uwe Rietenauer (both of Pink Cream 69 fame), drummer Chris Schmidt, and keyboardist Jochen Weyer. The album also features artists like Dann Huff and Jim Peterik as additional songwriters. Sunstorm released its first studio album Sunstorm in 2006. In 2009 second album, House Of Dreams, was released, and in 2012 their third album, Emotional Fire.
On 2016, it was announced that Joe Lynn Turner would record a new Sunstorm album, this time following a heavier sound, similar to another project of his called Rated X . For the album Edge of Tomorrow a new lineup was also announced with Alessandro Del Vecchio (Hardline, Jorn, Edge of Forever, Silent Force, ex-Voodoo Circle) on keyboards, Hammond organ, backing vocals and handling songwriting and production of the album. Other musicians were Simone Mularoni (DGM) on guitars, Nik Mazzucconi Labyrinth) on bass and Francesco Jovino (ex-Primal Fear, ex-Hardline, Voodoo Circle, Jorn) on drums. It was released on May 13, 2016.
On 2018 singles "Only The Good Will Survive" on April 16 and "The Road to Hell" on May 16th anticipated the new album The Road to Hell,[4] released on June 8. On this album drummer Edo Sala (Folkestone) replaced Francesco Jovino.
In December 2020 Frontiers Music announced Sunstorm new album called Afterlife that will released on March 12, 2021. It was anticipated by single "Swan Song" on January 15, 2021. The new Sunstorm band is formed by Ronnie Romero (Lords of Black, Rainbow, The Ferrymen, ex-CoreLeoni) and Italian drummer Michele Sanna, respectively in place of Joe Lynn Turner and Edo Sala. On June 6, the band released the cover and title of their new album Brothers in Arms and a photo of the new lineup.
Sunstorm, now consisting of Ronnie Romero on lead vocals, Luca Princiotta on guitars, Alessandro Del Vecchio on keyboards and backing vocals, Nik Mazzucconi on bass and Michele Sanna on drums will be releasing a live album titled Still Roaring: The Studio Sessions on October 21, 2022.
2) Sunstorm (Rough Trade Records, psych rock band) was formed in L.A., in July of 1999. Jerrold Balcom, the group's leader, the son of a theoretical physicist, had grown up in Torrance, CA. For a time, he lived in Tempe, AZ, before moving back to the West L.A. area, where he met up with bassist Thien Tan Doan and organist Blake Jordan. The trio decided to form a group. Meanwhile, Balcom spent several months trying to talk a drummer, Roger Brogan, into moving from Phoenix to L.A. so they could play shows. Brogan, at the time, was in Alison's Halo. After that group disbanded, he joined a few other groups, and, in 1999, finally made the move to L.A. to join up with Sunstorm. They began playing shows, expanding to add tambourine player Bowerbird and guitarist Rob Campanella, who had seen Balcom's ad in a weekly publication and contacted him because some of their musical interests -- the Verve, Ride, Spiritualized, the Stone Roses, and early Primal Scream -- were so similar. Campanella offered the use of his home studio, and soon they were recording demos. In March 2000, they pressed up a CD to attract interest in the group. The self-titled CD (all 250 copies selling out at the band's shows) finally did attract interest, from L.A.-music industry vet Margaret Mittleman. Mittleman (whose M3 management company roster has, at one time, featuredBeck, Built to Spill, Elliott Smith, and Beachwood Sparks) began working closely with the band, acting as their manager for the next year. During that time, Sunstorm continued to record, and the M3 label pressed up copies of an EP, High Resolution, which garnered even more interest in the band. Brogan later departed, joining Idaho Falls, and Campanella left to focus on the other two groups he was in, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Quarter After, touring with the BJM in 2001. Balcom eventually reassembled his group, drafting in new drummer Shane Kraus, and shifting Bowerbird over to rhythm guitar while he concentrated on lead guitar as well as fronting his band. Sunstorm were eventually brought to the attention of Geoff Travis, of the London-based Rough Trade label, who signed them to a contract. Rough Trade released the band's "official" debut EP, The Comeongohigher EP, in Spring 2002, which was reviewed favorably and began garnering airplay. A West Coast tour followed, along with preperation for the band's full-length debut.
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