Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
Tracklist
01. Transdimensional Revelation02. Pure
03. Lost In The Depths Of Me
04. Again Will The Fire Burn
05. The Song Of Earth
06. Cry Of A Restless Soul
07. Think Not Forever
08. Highlander (The One)
09. Deliverance
Additional info
All lyrics by Wojtek Lisicki except 7 by Martin FurangenAll music by Wojtek Lisicki except 5 by Christian Nyquist and 7 by Wojtek Lisicki & Martin Furangen
All material recorded, mixed and mastered in Meta4Music Studio
Produced and arranged by Wojtek Lisicki
Pro Tools recording and editing by Wojtek Lisicki, Christian Nyquist, Martin Furängen and Emil Örtenmark
Recording organised and engineered by Baskin Zuta
Mixed and mastered by Tobias Lindell and Baskin Zuta
All titles published by Meta4Music Publishing
Artwork and layout ideas by Lost Horizon and Mattias Norén
Lost Horizon logo designed by Martin Furängen
Artwork and computer graphics realisation by Mattias Norén
Photo on booklet centrefold taken by Iwona Wadolowska
Photos by Daniel Pedersen
"Ritual warrior paintings" by Lost Horizon
Typesetting by Martin Furängen
Band administration by Martin Furängen
Executive production by Baskim Zuta and Martin Furängen
Guest review by
Satariel
Satariel
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With this new album the Gods Lost Horizon are able to reach again the maximum musical level they reached in their first release, Awakening The World. Again we have the first an the last track missed, I mean, the album has 9 tracks, but the first and the last one are just galactic sounds of disintegration, not songs, we can not consider them songs at all, so we have actually a 7 songs album. Anyway, the album has a total playtime of 53 minutes, which means we have songs from 6 to 13 minutes long, so the album is not a fake at all in this sense. With this new album the band's sound has matured a lot, and the arrival of new members have helped to give the band their own sound and sign. Read more ›› |
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Top 20 albums of 2003: 4 This band never got the recognition they diserved, maybe because it was also short lived.
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I remember picking this up dirt cheap as a teenager when I was big into power metal. Back then the German model appealed to me, with Helloween, Gamma Ray, Avantasia, Blind Guardian etc. Thought it was cool, but it's mostly been sitting in my shelf untouched for all these years. Some time ago I picked it up again. Turns out it's pretty much the best power metal album I know. It's ridiculously over the top, but somehow it also sidesteps the biggest musical cheese bombs in power metal. It's never stupid or easy. The verses flow seamlessly into the refrains. Maybe it's that I've lately listened to a lot more doom and epic metal by extension, and this is definitely closer to the epic end of power metal than the thrashy or the keyboard-pop branches of it. Thought I couldn't enjoy power metal anymore, but lately I've been enjoying this album thoroughly.
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Brilliant, Daniel Heiman is amazing here, the band is very reminiscent of Boston, melodic as hell. I need more!
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Apparently among the best power metal albums ever written and at the same time the most unkown among them. Maybe Timeless Miracle can compare. Tagline: "We'll put a happy smile on your face".
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Slightly weaker than the debut but it's still a huge album, so many awesome things going on here. Incredible music.
---- Everything's twice as bright with money in your hands
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Probably my favorite gay metal album ever.
---- Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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The greatest power metal album ever created. Considering the state of the genre, pretty sure nothing will ever be able to top it.
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Posts: 1361 Written by MeatWolf on 06.04.2019 at 12:20 I agree that's it's a hidden gem but I enjoyed some other Power Metal albums more. Just one example, Melancholy Beast by Pyramaze which was released a year after (2004) but I can name few other albums. I am not comparing the technicality of those bands, but the overall quality of the songs, production and performance. I think there were several PM releases after that were as good and maybe to some even slightly better.
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I feel like this album is the epitome of power metal, although it could be better. I think the order of the tracks could be a little different. And especially the ending: Even though The One is an undeniably excellent song, I think it has a couple of parts to spare, and the inertia of that song is lost a bit with those parts getting in the way. So much so that I don't think it should last 12 minutes, but 10 at most. Despite this, I understand why many say this is possibly PM's best album.
---- Here, waiting very quiet right in front Valaritas, the door that hides the tomb.
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Hard to believe it isn't THE #1 album of 2003. I might be wrong but it's like a Power Metal album cannot be rated very high by some just because it doesn't have balls and given that sad criteria, an 8.8 on metal storm shows just how undeniably good this album is.
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Same as the last album, it is one of my favorite album. Definite masterpiece.
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This album is incredible! It's one of the finest in the whole of power metal, although imo, Imaginations From The Other Side is the best power metal album, in terms of songwriting anyway, but this is the most enjoyable, and the one I keep going back too most. It's practically faultless, the vocal performance is simply outstanding, there is an endless supply of seriously catchy melodies, and there is such an epic sound, all the songs are high quality, with no fillers, but "Highlander" is just sheer epic beyond belief!
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From what I read Wojtek might have been a dick, but goddamn he had great vision for music. And they nailed it the very first time too. Very sad that it all came apart.
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This band has grown on me, it also helps that they had a great vocalist.
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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Monke flip jumpscare
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Amazing album!! Excellent riffing and chorus, good vocals and top notch production. Yeah it has his cheese (especially the wowow parts  ), but in his genre it´s a great release.The entire album is very close to the stuff of early Sonata Arctica, even the vocals are resembling. I will definitely check out the previous album  Highlights: Highlander, Lost in the depths of me.
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As a big fan of power metal i really don't understand what's so special about this album, Yeah, it's good, it's a nice listen but nothing unheard of nor special. The singer is talented and all but he doesn't have a really unique voice plus he has like a yell number 1 and number 2 and that's basiclly all he does for 50 minutes straight with no variations and added creativity. I really don't hate the album but there was just not a single one stand-out song that would actually make me feel something. An okay album that doesn't bring anything new to the table is not enough for me
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Posts: 5630 Written by Kulivlad on 10.04.2026 at 15:07 It's pretty funny how power metal fans have problems with this album and occasional listeners of the genre enjoy this a lot. 
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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Posts: 12 Written by John_Doe on 10.04.2026 at 15:12 I never thought about it this way before to be honnest. I guess that when you're a fan of other genres and you're not that familiar with power metal then this album does a good job in capturing a lot of essential elements that define the "standard" power metal for many people. Although in my opinion as I mentioned it fails to innovate it
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Posts: 5630 Written by Kulivlad on 10.04.2026 at 22:02 I wonder what an innovative power metal album would sound like these days... 
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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