BOOK OF REFLECTIONS
Chapter II: Unfold the Future - Out Now!
The band was born in 2004 and released it's first album "Book of Reflections" the same year. On November 24, 2006 "Chapter II: Unfold the Future" followsed
The musical concept behind Book of Reflections is to mix power metal and classic hard rock with progressive elements and present the result in a fresh package where the songs alway comes first.
Lead Vocals:
Björn Jansson (Beyond Twillight/Tears of Anger/Mattsson on Album II)
Andy Engberg (Section A/ex-Lions Share on Album I)
Mikael Holm (Winterlong on Album I)
Hubi Meisel (ex-Dreamscape on Album I)
Martin LeMar (Tomorrow's Eve, Lalu on Album II)
Torgny Stjärnfelt (Condition Red on Album I)
Keyboards:
Vitalij Kuprij (on Album I)
Mistheria(Bruce Dickinson on Album II)
Lars Eric Mattsson
Guitars:
Rusty Cooley (on Album I)
Lars Eric Mattsson
Anand (Sphere of Souls on Album II)
Eddie Sledgehammer
Bass:
Lars Eric Mattsson
Additional vocals:
Torgny Stjärnfelt (Condition Red)
Mikaela Mattsson
Book of Reflections is Lion Music's new all-star metal project. The music could probably be described as high-energy progressive symphonic/neoclassical power metal. The eleven songs on the self-titled debut album are all powered by extremely good musicianship, high energy and good melodies.
The album was recorded between April and December 2003 in Finland, Germany,
Sweden and USA. All songs were written by Lars Eric Mattsson with some
additional lyrics from Conny Welen.
Book of Reflections was put together by Lars Eric Mattsson after having been approached by an Asian company, and once all the right members were found all the pieces started to fit together extremely well and the result was much better that one could have imagined! The idea was to create a fast and furious yet very melodic album that would nether be too complicated nor too simple and on which the vocal melodies would stand out. Even though the musicians are all of very high caliber this album is not about virtuosity its all about the high energy songs.
The guitars of Rusty Cooley and Lars Eric Mattsson as well as the keyboards of
Vitalij Kuprij are nothing but breathtaking, the solos on this album are some of
the hottest ever on a Lion Music release but Book Of Reflections is still more
about good high energy songs and the vocals of the four lead singers of Book Of
Reflections are all outstanding.
Both the European and Japanese version of this album contains exclusive bonus
tracks.