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Lost Horizon

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 2, 2003)
• Original Release Date: June 24, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: MSI:MFN
• ASIN: B000088SXG
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #773,852 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Transdimensional Revelation

2. Pure

3. Lost in the Depths of Me

4. Again Will the Fire Burn

5. Song of Earth

6. Cry of a Restless Soul

7. Think Not Forever

8. Highlander (The One)

9. Deliverance

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Second album from Swedish True Metal band Lost Horizon for fans of Hammerfall and Stratovarius. 9 tracks. Music For Nations. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars European heavy metal at its best, October 22, 2004

By	Joseph Gemlo (N.T., New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Flame to the Ground Beneath (Audio CD)

I didn't know what to expect when I decided to buy Lost Horizon's new CD. I never heard of this band until recently. The reviews helped me make my decision to bite the bullet and buy it. I'm a Dream Theater, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, early Paradise Lost, early Metallica, basically all-around heavy metal fan. I'm willing to give a listen to any band that is heavy. I just got this CD and have been listening to it in constant rotation. I'm pleasantly surprised by what I hear. It sounds like a cross between Dream Theater and Manowar, even vocally speaking. The first tune "Transcendental Revelation" is trippy, to say the least. It's a futuristic-sound-effects-prologue-intro track. Track two rocks, man. "Pure" is pure heavy metal--fast, uplifting, crunching metal. This is how Dream Theater should have evolved, instead of the half-ballad, lyrically depressing albums they do now. Track three, "Lost in the Depths of Me," is my favorite track. Contemporary heavy metal doesn't get much better than this. This track is complexly layered like Dream Theater, and the jamming Manowar sound jumps out here. Killer track! Track four, "Again Will the fire Burn," is another Manowar sounding tune--but much better than Manowar. Manowar only wishes it could cut a quality track like this one. Synthesizers are a great addition. Track five, "The Song of Earth," is a short mystical track with synthesizers. Track six, "Cry of a Restless Soul," is Yngwie Malmsteen on acid. I sware to God, this track is that fast in spots. Lost Horizon pulls off this unique sound throughout. Track seven, "Think not Forever," is a mixture of crunching metal, synthesizers, and well-structured vocals and chorus. Track eight, "Highlander (The One)," is a great story, with great musicianship. Starts slow, then gets heavy, and sinks back into slowness, but the vocals and story carries it along through the heavy parts. The last track, track nine, "Deliverance," ends the way the CD began, a trippy-sounding futuristic epologue. I haven't heard a heavy metal CD this good in a long time, perhaps since I bought Bruce Dickinson's "The Chemical Wedding."

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why does America only support [stuff] they pass off as "music", July 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: A Flame to the Ground Beneath (Audio CD)

"Death to False Metal" was the sticker afixed to the cd case when it arrived in the mail. To me, that says just about all you need to know about them. Once again these guys drop an incredible peice of music on to the world. When I heard their first album it blew me away, and this new one does no less than the first one. Completely raw, hard, heavy, melodic, and the best singer I think I have ever heard in my life. Key element here: good song writing! They write about actual topics of human life, not about defending the castle from the evil dragons from the ice mountain. I love power metal, but I tire of all the fantasy and dungeons and dragons related lyrical content of most bands in power metal. I wouldn't exactly consider Lost Horizon as power metal, but rather a new kind of true metal, with amazing song structures, musically and lyrically. Track 6 is easily the best peice of music I have ever heard: CRY OF A RESTLESS SOUL!! These guys play with such power, and passion for their music, if you do not like them: There is something seriously wrong with you. I mean it. IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT THIS BAND WON'T RECIEVE THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE IN AMERICA BECAUSE MOST OF US ARE BLINDED BY THE MEDIA AND RECORD COMPANIES AND WORST OF ALL, MTV...BUT MAYBE IT'S BETTER THAT WAY. This music is only for the pure of heart.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another band on my favourite list, November 19, 2003

By	Dr. Stein (Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Flame to the Ground Beneath (Audio CD)

Lost HOrizon is now between my favourite bands. Why I like them? They have a combination of diferent styles. I was really impressed after listening to their debut "Awakening the world", but now that got to listen to this album, I can assure for certain that is band is worth listening to. Pure, rough and violent (generally) power metal on the heavy side. Lost Horizon is definitely pure, magestical and powerful at the same time. Try listening to "Pure" or "Cry of a restless soul" at full volume and you' ll feel the music get inside you and making adrenaline flow.