Having recently signed a worldwide deal with Century Media Records, Horisont, who are indeed big of mustache and tight of trouser, are of course on a pretty big high, as they should be having worked as hard as they have since the bands inception in 2006. To top it off, their latest album ‘About Time’ is scheduled for release February 3rd and what listeners can expect is a mix of cool, fun, toe tapping, heard it all before rock n’ roll.
Various line up changes over the years have seen the current incarnation comprise of Axel (vocals), Charles (guitar), David (guitar), Magnus (bass), Pontus (drums) and each one of these gentlemen is as talented as the other. On a fundamental level, Horisont tick all the boxes. They look good, they sound good, they’re a mighty tight quintet by any standard and rumor has it the guys put on quite the live show. However, the likelihood is you have seen it all before. If not and you find that this band are blowing your mind with sounds you’ve never heard before, do brush up on your rock history as that is the downfall here.
Horisont do little in the way of striving to breach anything original or their own. Whether it be the driving force that is “Night Line”, the all too telling tale behind the album titled “About Time” or the soaring vocals from singer Alex in the records leading single “Electrical”, one need not look far to find it is all forty years too late.
Making no apologies, the self confessed heavily influenced Horisont are easier to imagine as a band who were frozen in time and thawed out only last year, picking up right where they left off. A time when Sabbath ruled all, Lizzy lived in the radio, Purple‘s reign was far from over and Blue Oyster Cult were still only getting used to newer bands trying to be them. What Horisont are doing is fine, but an argument might be made that a world wide record deal might be better spent on a band or artist bringing something new to the table as opposed to something that has been done before and done better.
‘About Time’ is a sweet sliver of fond nostalgia that, in truth, does little more than that. It preaches to the converted and shows no unique or contemporary substances to even mark the bands own stamp on it. Audibly well produced, technically well played, Horisont are, hopefully, perfectly content with delivering rehashed, reused, recycled material that keeps raising the question; outside having a little fun, what’s the point?
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I think the point is there are a lot of people who love this style of music including me but we’re not old enough to have seen the 70s bands in their prime and have all those albums anyway. So now we have a new album of prime heavy rock to enjoy and bands to see live. . It’s a great album for people such as me who love 70s and 70s style rock, check the calender for when Freak Valley Festival is happening etc.