Listen to the Light [Original recording remastered, Import]

Zeno | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 1, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: EMI Japan
• ASIN: B0009OAV8S
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #803,487 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Goddess Of Sunrise

2. Love In Your Eyes

3. I Would Die For You

4. Meet Me At The Rainbow

5. Light Of The Morning

6. Follow The Wind

7. Listen To The Light

8. Luna And Mercury ( Instrumental)

9. Some Rocks Don't Roll

10. Eden On Fire

11. Tomorrow Arise

12. Rainforest Tears

13. Sunset In Paradise

14. How Can I Know

15. World Of Tomorrow

16. Together

Editorial Reviews

Remastered reissue of the heavy metal act's 1998 album isscheduled to include bonus material. Details TBA. Toshiba. 2004. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent German melodic rock album, November 19, 2010

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Justin Gaines (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Listen to the Light (Audio CD)

Led by guitarist Zeno Roth (brother of guitar wizard Uli Jon Roth), Zeno released their third album - Listen to the Light - in 1998. The band, which at various points has featured members of Fair Warning, plays a guitar-oriented (naturally) brand of soaring melodic rock.

While Listen to the Light continues on the same path as previous Zeno albums, you can hear Roth taking the band in a new direction. There is still a strong focus on accessible melodies and uplifting choruses, but this time around the lyrics tend to be a bit more spiritual, almost new-agey, in nature, and there is more emphasis on instrumental passages. Roth sounds incredible as always, whether he's delivering tranquil melodies or blistering solos, and vocalist Michael Flexig does a great job as well. He reminds me of a cross between Fair Warning's Tommy Heart and Axxis vocalist Bernhard Weiss.

I prefer Zeno and Zenology, but Listen to the Light is still a very enjoyable melodic rock album with some incredible guitar work. If you're a fan of the German melodic rock sound (particularly Fair Warning, Bonfire and Axxis) or Uli Jon Roth, you have to check out Zeno.

Edition Notes: MTM reissued Listen to the Light in 2004. The reissue features digitally remastered sound and three bonus demo tracks from 1987.

5.0 out of 5 stars Listening to this album forces you to reconsider Hard Rock through an entirely new perspective., August 14, 2009

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Nikiforos V. Skoumas (Athens Greece, Cambridge UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Listen to the Light (Audio CD)

Although it has been over a year since I bought the album I hesitated to review it simply because it is so amazing that I still don't think I can put that accurately on description.
The brother of German guitar legend Uli Jon Roth, guitarist Zeno Roth made his solo recording debut in 1986 while in the process discovered, utilized and promoted the talents of such musicians as Ule W. Ritgen (Fair Warning) and
Tommy Heart (Fair Warning , Soul Doctor)

"Listen to the light", originally released in 1998, is probably the best ever melodic hard rock album. The divine guitar melodies of Zeno unite perfectly with the orchestral arrangements while the sublime vocal performances support the intensity of the overall performance and put out some of the most forceful choruses in the history of Hard rock. All 15 songs are so well thought, planned and executed that make "Listen to the Light" sound like the ultimate hard rock musical; still it is far more passionate powerful and real that you can not help but be blown away.

After playing the album a few dozen times it became clear that all this musical majesty is orchestrated by the command of Zeno's guitar which lays impossibly colorful melodies and blinding solos. The man is clearly nothing less than a musical genius whose passion and commitment to this music is unquestioned. What he has created here in terms of orchestration, composition and performance is beyond words. Zeno combines the musical colors with such majesty that "Listen to the Light" shifts effortlessly from aggressive to melancholic from lightning fast to mystical slow.
Zeno opens the door to a whole new galaxy of hard rock.

Taking the objective as possible approach I can not say that there are many songs that can stand toe to toe with "Eden on Fire", "Meet me at the rainbow", "Love in your eyes" and "Tomorrow Arise", naming just a few of the fascinating tracks on this superior release.
If you want to make an experience out of your next CD purchase, buy this and prepare to be `awesomized'. If you are a fan of "Fair Warning" or Uli Jon Roth you absolutely have got to get this.

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5.0 out of 5 stars incredible, April 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Listen to the Light (Audio CD)

Breathtaking release from brother of guitar master,Uli Roth.Zeno Roth plays all instruments on this(except voc.) and his spiritual songwriting along with INSANE guitar virtuosity make this a MUST. Uli and Zeno are the MOST talented guitar slingers EVER!!