BEYOND THE BLACK – Lost In Forever

German shooting stars Beyond The Black return with their sophomore work called Lost In Forever. Although it is certainly not an easy task to compose a fitting follow up their surprise hit album Songs Of Love And Death the band manages almost perfectly. Of course, the experienced listener understands the carefully arranged songs and calculated songwriting, but just because someone created a professionally designed album adequately crafted to the needs of the target group, does not mean it contains sub par music.

On the contrary, Lost In Forever is a very entertaining hour of bombastic, Melodic Metal that hopefully can repeat the great success of its predecessor and bring more good Rock music into the radios and kids’ rooms of today. The dark touch of music and lyrics is just wild enough for young teens to be excited about, most songs scream to be performed live, and beautiful singer Jennifer Haben certainly does not hurt the cause.