Lost Kingdom is the kind of band that easy could fly under the radar.

If I had not written this review this would have happened:

The album "As the new dawn Awakes" put away in my collection of CDs and after ten years I find it.
And then when I listen to the album I will say, - what the hell is this? This is really good. When was it made?

When I then realize it was made ten years ago in the year 2008 I will be mad at myself that I back in the day (2008)
did not take the time to examin the album more closely and wrote a review. Why did I not listen that second time?

So, now back to(from) the future. Or back to the present altered now if you wish!
Confused? Me too.

I don´t put the album away (as I honestly was about to do after a very quick first look/listen) because I know I would
regret that later on.
Jens on Waerloga Records is a man that I trust and he told me to listen to this album again and also check out the project
a bit more closely. So, I did.

Ok, what did I know about this band? A Waerloga Records release (two releases on the same day) with a duo I only had heard on
the first Radio Rivendell compilation. On that compilation the song from the band was really good. They sounded like what Neo
classic music sounds like when not trying to much to do it like it was a film score. With other words they sounded like new
classical music mixed with present possibilites.

I also remembered seeing a very informative and good looking web page about the band. So I looked it up (you should too!)
and I learned a lot. Daniel and Michael are two heavy metal nerdy looking brothers from Sweden in their I would say early 20s
and with various degrees in music. They tour churches (!) playing flute and piano. They both live outside of the big cities
in a very small society close to the vast and beautiful swedish nature.

I of course see beyond both age and clothing and the life of the maker. But to be honest it was not all that easy. They seemed
so nice and guys next door to me. Could they actually create music that would make me fly into my imagination and only
escape as the goose bumps start to get a bit to much lika a cold?

The answer after the first listening was no. But something, call it what you want, lured me back (+ Jens)
for a second listening. The second time I heard the whole album I had started to love it.
Lost Kingdom are very relaxed but always with a feeling of mysticism.

A very solid and good debut album from Waerloga Records.

Now I will listen to the album a third time!

Atrium Carceri has done it again. This time in a more ambient way than before and with more percussive elements. Fits
survival horror games such as Silent Hill.
Simon Heath create a unique ambience of complex and obscure techniques of mental dissolution and musical innovation. "Ptahil" is a darkened voyage into domains both dreadful and serenely beautiful.
A bit more industrial than earlier recordings but also more complete mixed and this music works very well in headphones.

Darkwave music with harsh militaristic influences. The music is hard and with apocalyptic tendensis and reminds me of In Slaughter Natives early stuff. Nightmarish, chaotic but not only industrial but also with hints of melodies and of true destruction.
An all in all interesting album even though it´s a bit to one diemensional. Neo-classic in a way that crush the orchestra.

This is the third album in Erdenstern´s saga with always different themes. This time the theme is the sea and all thinkable adventures on it. The music is very much filled with adventure and energy. It´s neo-classical and as always with a goal of sounding like film music. The fantasy music genre is growing very fast and Erdenstern is one take on fantasy. It´s not always jolly and sounding like Hollywood soundtracks but enough to call this album probably the weakest by the always great Erdenstern. For my taste it´s a bit too heroic and lacking some of the darkness that the soundtrack for "The pirates of the Caribbean" has. Credit though to a rich flora of songs and some very good tunes.

Dark, atmospheric, symphonic, industrial, neo-classic music with a lot of power and beautiful melodies = ELEGY.
Synthetic music with bombastic music far exeeding bands such as Arditi and other bands that are one-diemensional. Across The Rubicon is not one-diemensional and were acts like Puissance fail in atmosphere Across The Rubicon with this album succeed!
The album is very well executed and for those into this kind of style I really recommend it. Sometimes the noise takes over just a little bit but that´s really nothing to complain about. I am really looking forward to hearing more from this promising act.