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I Feel Fine is the debut album from San Diego's Tzimani, a band comprised of brothers Eddie (guitars/vocals/bass) and Sebastian (drums) Vazquez. They play a rather AOR (album-oriented rock for those that didn't grow up listening to terrestrial radio in the '70s and '80s) influenced music that doesn't exactly straddle the line between metal and hard rock but it is definitely close. The playing is good, and the vocals get the job done, neither elevating the songs nor dragging them down. Cuts like "We Stand and Fight" and "Empty" are fun if unremarkable anthemic heavy metal, while the backing keyboards on "Haunting" had me thinking of Journey's "Separate Ways," so there's that commercial hard rock stripe I mentioned at the outset. I don't hear much that gets me excited on I Feel Fine, but if '80s hard rock/heavy metal from the likes of Van Halen, Dokken, RATT, etc. are in your mix, you might get some mileage out of it.