I just got Lost Horizon's "Awakening the World" in the mail today.

EPIC.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;14256371]I just got Lost Horizon's "Awakening the World" in the mail today.

EPIC.[/QUOTE]

How's it comparing to [I]A Flame to the Ground Beneath[/I]?

So far it's another 5/5 for me. It's a little different in that it seems to be less.....I dont know. It's more power-metal and less epic metal, I guess.

Right, right. I might have to check it out.

Definitely do. The booklet is so amazingly gay and hilarious, it's just a bunch of shirtless europeans.

If I want to see a shirtless European I just need to watch myself in the mirror when I wake up. But I'll try to scavenge the album anyways.

Is your name Ethereal Magnanimus? Do you have a picture of you and your band standing in a field, your hand raised high in the air, all of you shirtless, with the words "NO FATE. ONLY WILLPOWER" strewn across the bottom?

DIDN'T ****IN THINK SO

No, but I'm Swedish, as well, and I can do shirtless. Of course I can't compete with Lost Horizon, though.

[QUOTE=Cocaine;14256455]Definitely do. The booklet is so amazingly gay and hilarious, it's just a bunch of shirtless europeans.[/QUOTE]

Haha, I guess it's gay that I have that booklet centerpage up on my wall with all my other shi[size=2]t[/size]. It's ok though, cause it's Lost Horizon :thumb: .

To be honest, their image is what makes me love them so much more.

Lost Horizon feckin' rules.

I have a song on my computer I think, don't remember it at all tbh. Will need to check that out eventually.

[QUOTE=Stormrider331;14257001]I have a song on my computer I think, don't remember it at all tbh. Will need to check that out eventually.[/QUOTE]

:amaze: You had better get on that...

I was expecting an reply to my post sooner or later.

"FIRST U DIDNT KNOW MANOWAR AND NOw THIS ?!!?!?!"

:p

Heh, yeah I will. After my Kamelot album though.

Jammie, you're disappointing me. Pretty soon, you'll have to kill yourself because you're too unmetal.

[I]Awakening The World[/I] is a little bit better than [I]A Flame To The Ground Beneath[/I] in a few ways. Martin's bass is a lot higher up in the mix, and he's probably the best bass player in power metal, so it's very enjoyable. Plus the songwriting is just a bit more varied: Sworn In The Metal Wind and Heart Of Storm being standouts.

However, Daniel's vocals are much more mature and clear in AFTTGB, so it's hard to definitively rank one over the other.

Yeah, I totally agree only I weigh them both at about the same level of awesomeness. I definitely noticed the bass though.

I'm not sure which one is better. I think Awakening is more consistent, but AFTTGB has better songs.

Plus, it has that epic scream in Highlander. There's nothing better than that.

Yeah the vocals are honestly unreal on AFTTGB. I dont know [I]what[/I] they're going to do without him. Have you heard his other band, Heed I think it is?

Nope. Never even knew he had a different band.

They're apparently more traditional heavy metal. I've been meaning to look into 'em for a while now.

OMFG I NEED TO DOUBLE POST FOR THIS.


[B]I JUST GOT THE NEW MANOWAR ALBUM[/B]


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[QUOTE=Mike]Jammie, you're disappointing me. Pretty soon, you'll have to kill yourself because you're too unmetal.[/QUOTE]

I'm sorry :(

As I had mentioned, I just havn't been checking out much new power metal with the excpetion of the Dark Moor.

Okay, this Manowar is already amazing and I'm still on the opening overture...

Every Manowar overture is amazing. I need that album.

It just leaked, I'm so excited! It doesn't come out here until the end of April.

Okay nevermind, this is disappointing.

You had my hopes up...:(

I noticed that trend with Warriors Of The World. Call To Arms was EPIC, but then it just kinda went downhill. I stopped at An American Trilogy.

My God, that was a terrible song.

The problem with Gods of War is there's like, almost no metal on it. It's chock full of these epic overtures and stuff, but most of the like, Manowar-style of music is stuff that was on the EP anyways.

I couldn't get the whole way through :|

No metal? What happened to Manowar?! :mad:

It's almost all monologues and interludes and ****. The songs that are actual Manowar RULE, but still.

I'll post back when I give it another listen tomorrow.

Only Rhapsody is allowed to have interludes.

Them, and maybe Bal-Sagoth. But they take care of interludes during the songs.

Actually, this new Manowar suffers from the same stuff the new Rhapsody [B]OF FIRE[/B] does.

Too much epic?

/will not refer to Rhapsody with their new tag-on, no matter what Rhapsody Music says.

Yeah, like when the album started I was so excited by the huge epic intro. The orchestra, choirs, all that ****. I loved it.

But then it just wouldn't stop!

Tis a shame. Manowar need to bring their balls back out.

Well, it [I]does[/I] end with Die For Metal, so it's not all bad.

True, true...

FOR HEAVY METAL, WE WILL DIE!

Yeah disappointing indeed (not a fan but nevermind, hehe) although I don't really understand what's wrong. I mean, not actual songs, wtf? :confused:

I'll post my review tonight, but this is an excerpt that about sums it up.

[QUOTE]If you include the AMAZING bonus track (more on that in a minute), this album is one hour and thirteen minutes long. Now, if you do the math, there’s about half an hour worth of overtures and interludes on the album. There’s 8 Metal tracks on the album, which equals half of the tracklist, and three (four if you count Odin, which was on the EP in string form) of those were off the EP. What you’re left with is around 5 new Manowar tracks worth listening to, one of which is a bonus.[/QUOTE]