Lost Horizon - Awakening The World
Music For Nations, 2001
8/10
Vincent Eldefors
A
new Swedish star has begun its rising towards the metal sky and hopefully
it will not fall. Lost Horizon was formed in 1998 and this is their debut
album. Music For Nations claims this to be one of the best debut albums
ever. I don´t know if that´s true but it is without a doubt a very good
album that will please power metal fans all over the world. Take Sweden
and power metal and what do we have? You might have guessed Hammerfall
and this is also what Lost Horizon pretty much sounds like but in my opinion
Hammerfall has a pretty flat sound compared to this new act. These four
guys play with great technical skill, it´s fast and melodic but it has
been done so many times before. Intelligent songwriting makes it a lot
more interesting than most Europower releases the last couple of years
but in the end it gets slightly boring. The speed and dynamic drive in
the music is really amazing though and the vocals are also very varied
and by no means only annoyingly Helloweenish. This is absolutely an album
to check out if you´re into power metal. Worse debut albums than this
one have been seen on the Earth...
Song listing:
1. The Quickening
2. Heart Of Storm
3. Sworn In The Metal Wind
4. The Song Of Air
5. World Through My Fateless Eyes
6. Perfect Warrior
7. Denial Of Fate
8. Welcome Back
9. The Kingdom Of My Will
10. The Red Integration
Playing time: 43.27
Song listing:
1. The Quickening
2. Heart Of Storm
3. Sworn In The Metal Wind
4. The Song Of Air
5. World Through My Fateless Eyes
6. Perfect Warrior
7. Denial Of Fate
8. Welcome Back
9. The Kingdom Of My Will
10. The Red Integration
Playing time: 43.27
