Wings of an Aeroplane

The Zoo Crew just dropped the needle on “Wings of an Aeroplane” by H.E.A.T off their Force Majeure album, and the whole room lit up like someone cracked a window on a long ride. That track closes out the record with the kind of lift that makes you want to point the front wheel toward the horizon and just keep rolling. Kenny Leckremo’s voice rides the melody like it belongs there, the guitars cut clean, and the rhythm section keeps everything moving forward without ever getting stuck in the mud. It feels like the band took every mile they’ve put in and turned it into something that still has the throttle wide open.

Force Majeure came together after Kenny stepped back into the lineup. The guys have said the energy was immediate. They started writing almost right away and wound up with a stack of demos before they settled on the tracks that made the album. Jona Tee mentioned they worked through a bunch of ideas, narrowing things down until the songs felt right for the moment. Kenny has talked about the period as a full rush of inspiration once he was back in the room. The title itself grew out of that stretch. The band kept circling the word “force,” partly because of everything happening in the world and partly because Kenny’s return carried so much drive they started calling him Force. One of them joked that the phone even listed him that way. It fit the record: a push to keep going when things shift around you.

“Wings of an Aeroplane” sits at the end of that collection and carries the same spirit. The lyrics talk about years spent on the road, finding the passion in every town and every stage, and refusing to fold when the days get harder. It lines up with the way the band has described the album as something built to bring people together after a stretch of changes. Reviewers noted how the closer shares some of the lift of an earlier track called “Rise,” yet Kenny’s voice sits deeper and wider than it did on the first records. Dave Dalone and Ludvig Turner wrote it, and the production keeps the guitars and keys bright while the chorus opens up enough to feel like the song is actually gaining altitude. You hear the same commitment the band has carried since the early days: stay in it, give everything, and keep moving.

H.E.A.T started in 2007 up in Upplands Väsby, outside Stockholm. A couple of local outfits, Dream and Trading Fate, decided to join forces. The guys had known each other since school. Jona Tee and Dave Dalone went way back, and the rest of the lineup—Kenny on vocals, Jimmy Jay on bass, Don Crash on drums—came from the same circle. They were hungry to play and figured one band would give them a better shot at stages. Early on they opened for Toto, then later for Sabaton and Alice Cooper, and they hit Sweden Rock Festival. They signed with StormVox, the label run by actor Peter Stormare, and put out their self-titled debut in 2008. The next year they made it to the final of Melodifestivalen with “1000 Miles,” which put them in front of a national audience and showed they could write something that stuck. Freedom Rock followed in 2010 and landed high on a few AOR lists. Kenny stepped away that year because of a heart condition that made it tough to stay on stage. Erik Grönwall came in and the band kept rolling through several more records. When Kenny returned for Force Majeure, it felt like the original spark had been waiting. The album became the first one with him since the early days, and the guys have said the writing sessions locked in fast once everyone was back in the same room.

That return is part of what makes “Wings of an Aeroplane” hit the way it does. The song is not just another closer; it feels like the band is looking at the road they’ve already traveled and deciding the next stretch is still worth the ride. Listeners have picked up on the same thing—the refusal to sit still, the sense that the passion itself is the point. On THE ZOO it fits right alongside the deep cuts and the stories that come with them. The Zoo Freaks hear the same drive that started when a handful of school friends decided two bands were better as one and started chasing stages wherever they could find them.

You can dig further into the band at their official site heatsweden.com. Their Facebook page is at facebook.com/heatsweden, Instagram at instagram.com/heatsweden, and X at x.com/heatsweden. Fans in Brazil keep a solid club going through the H.E.A.T Brazil FC, and the Australian street team stays active on Facebook. Those pages are where the updates land and where the conversation keeps rolling after the record stops spinning. The song is still climbing on the station right now, so turn it up and let it carry the rest of the set. The Zoo Crew will keep the vinyl moving for the Freaks who are still out there listening.