Beyond The Black - Horizons
Flyctory.com Pros
Jennifer Haben, who is dominating the album
Range of sounds between rock, metal and pop
Flyctory.com Cons
Too few characterful and good tracks
Very often, a very undefined mix of styles.
Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing meinen Song (“Sing my Song”) in 2019. Just as the 2020 edition of the show is done and a new set of stars promoted their albums, like the 2020 recordings by Nico Santos or Ilse de Lange , Beyond the Black also are back in the record stores: the symphonic metal band released their Horizons on 19th June 2020.
Beyond The Black – About The Artists
The roots of the band are back to 2014 in Mannheim, when the band has been found. Apart from lead singer Jennifer Haben, however, no member of the original sextet are still part of the band – even though they had quite a massive start: after they send a demo to the organizers, the played the famous Wacken Open Air in their founding year. They also supported Saxon on the February UK tour 2015. In that year, the band also released their debut – Song of Love and Death sold well in the stores and online and peaked 12th spot in the German album charts. The following albums, the 2016 Lost in Forever and the 2018 Heart of the Hurricane even did better, placing fourth and fifth in the charts and having Top 30 rankings in neighboring Austria and Switzerland . Horizons (which is in fact written as Hørizøns ) is the band’s fourth studio album.
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Beyond The Black – Horizons – Track by Track
The 13 tracks album lasts 55 minutes.
1. Horizons
The album starts with the title tracks (this time, without the Scandinavian O, by the way…). Melodic, powerful and a nice contrast between Jennifer Haben as the lead (and female) vocals and Chris Hermsdörfer and Tobias Lodes on the boy’s side. Cool track, even though the arrangement feels very pop-ish – the guitars are
2. Misery
Misery has been one of the songs the band decided to publish as single before the album. Definitely one of the best songs of the album. Powerful, melodic, like as you would expect from that genre. Vice versa, the song also illustrates perfectly how much the project depends on Haben (so it is not too critical that she replaced the whole band already).
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3. Wounded Healer
Double female power on Wounded Healer : Amaranthe’s Elize Ryd is joining Beyond the Black in this song. My favorite, also as it moves between powerful and very quiet moments.
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4. Some Kind Of Monster
Like some kind of monster, some kind of freak
I feel there’s an evil no longer asleep
Like some kind of monster breaking the chains
I feel there’s a darkness that poisons my veins
What I do, what I say to the ones in my way
I can’t help it, I’m losing it all
Like some kind of monster, some kind of freak
I feel it inside me, it’s buried in deep
Good, very well-to-listen chorus and lyrics. Some Kind Of Monster is just on the edge of metal. It is rock music, definitely – but I feel a bit of sorry for the guys at the guitars. I am sure they would long for “More Power!”
5. Human
One of the singles so far released from the Horizons album. I cannot deal too well with it. The song is neither a good ballad nor a good metal song. We’re born to die, we are human – and with that kind of music, there are some reasons to take the earlier exit.
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6. Golden Pariahs
Golden Pariahs is one of my favorites of Horizons. First of all, this one is undoubtedly metal (though I still struggle with that “defensive” arrangement of the song. At the very least, when Haben sings the repetitive Golden Pariahs , this one catches you. Great!
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7. Marching On
Regarding musical quality, this track just cannot keep up with Golden Pariahs . Somehow a nice one, not more. At least, the guitars are allowed to show their power.
8. You’re Not Alone
Major parts of the album feel to be a departure from the metal community. You’re Not Alone is one of the tracks which give the headbangers a tearful farewell. One of the best arranged songs. Metal meets radio sound.
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9. Out Of The Ashes
Rock, maybe pop – or still metal? If you move though this triangle of genres and don’t take care, you my quickly reach nether land. Out Of The Ashes is caught in that Bermuda triangle o me..
10. Paralyzed
The chorus of Paralyzed is a quite catching one (and – by the way – quite on the metal corner of the triangle I mentioned before). Some other parts of the songs are just too weak though to make me bang my head.
11. Coming Home
If the band is Coming Home and thereby plays such a powerful guitar cruncher, why the f*ck do you leave your home and do this pop-mainstream stuff? There is quite some talent in that combo (though I feel it decreased with all the band substitutions), but is there a concept?
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12. I Won’t Surrender Feat. Tina Guo
Cool sounds in I Won’t Surrender : Tina Guo is a quite famous cellist, who joins Beyond the Black for this song. The cello parts are really intense. The song is a die-hard ballad.
13. Welcome To My Wasteland
Okay, that’s the wasteland then. I have to say that this final track illustrates maybe better than any other song of this album the dilemma in which the band is caught: a metal fan might not even bang his head to this track if you bribe him – but for mainstream listeners it may be a bit too hard. Still, the band found the people in between, who buy this stuff. Activate their potential. They do that, undoubtedly.
Beyond The Black – Horizons – Spotify
Here are the Horizons on Spotify:
Beyond The Black – Horizons – My View
Beyond The Black will sell this one massively – so they won’t care anyway that I don’t like the album. There is no clear concept. Overall, the band is too limited to really survive this fight between feeling metal (which the metal fans likely do not think of Beyond the Black anyway) and pop, where likely more popularity and money is possible. This sound can only be successful if you keep your die-hard community. It will be interesting if the band is able to do that.
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Time for some discussions in the German music scene - the Böhse Onkelz released their 17th studio album on 28th ...
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Heinz Rudolf Kunze is one of the biggest songwriters and rock musicians in Germany. Already in the 1980s, he had ...
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Country music made in Germany? Especially in the last few months, there have been a couple of acts, which feel ...
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While there were not too many country music releases on my intiial review list, there were some quite interesting new ...
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Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
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I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
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Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester is likely not the kind of music you would expect to be reviewed on ...
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When I was on social media, the account of a friend reminded me that Alex Christensen. After two amazingly successful ...
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There is an easy musical way to make myself happy while driving my wife nuts in parallel: Andreas Dorau. I ...
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Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
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Avantasia, one of the most successful German music projects, released their seventh album (eighth, if you count in a live ...
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Kiddo Kat already a viral hit on Youtube in 2016. Now, Anna Guder produced her first album "Piece of Cake" ...
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Doro Pesch is back - before she will tour in late 2018/early 2019, she just released a double album: while ...
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Spotlight – Flyctory.com Interviews
Here are all postings of my interview section Spotlight:
I am really glad to present you a new artist in my Spotlight interview section. Tomas Rimeika became quite famous ...
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Upsahl is a pop-rock singer-songweiter from Phoenix, Arizona. Just before she is setting foot on German soil during her 2022 ...
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Just this weekend, I introduced you to Fear & Dagger, the second album by the Swiss beatdown band Paleface. Even though ...
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If you think about Dutch country music, you definitely think about Ilse DeLange. Of course, if you follow my blog, ...
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Rickie Lee Kroell, the second time: I just introduced you to the pop artist and her new EP Hauptsache was mit ...
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The Canadian country recording artist and songwriter Jesse is about to release a new single this week: On Friday (4th ...
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Ontario, Nashville, Scotland - Brittany Brodie is home somehow in many places in the world. I have been in contact ...
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It's been quite a while since I released my previous Spotlight interview. The more, I feel flattered to dip into ...
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Lori Rayne, Stephanie Ryann and now Presley Aronson - after I had quite a break from my Flyctory.com Spotlight interviews, ...
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Even though Stephanie Ryann is already in her mid-30's, the New England artist is not a stranger to North American ...
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It's been quite a while since I published my last Spotlight interview. The more, I feel flattered to have a ...
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A debut on Flyctory.com: this week, I am featuring a very special interview in my Spotlight interview category. While I ...
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Linda Mar (or Linda Marlen Runge, which is her civil name) is truly a multi-talent in performing: Likely, most people ...
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After my recent Spotlight interview episode with Christina Taylor, I feel really gifted to chat with another very interesting Nashville ...
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It's been quite a while that I released my last Spotlight interview. The more I am happy that I have ...
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Emma Stevens is not only one of the big names of the British country / folk music scene, she is ...
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I am always happy to chat with German artists on my blog in the Spotlight interview category. Ann Doka is ...
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Brian John Harwood is indeed an interesting artist. Not just only as one part of Kansas Stone, Harwood is a ...
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Frances Luke Accord is a US-American folk music duo, which has been founded during their common time at high school ...
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Carrie Welling is a very interesting folk / Americana artist, who is nowadays living in Nashville. She was born in ...
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Right at the beginning of the 2020 holiday season, I had a very interesting chat with Tristan Cole. The North ...
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Nikita Skogen just released her debut single, Break Your Heart. Nonetheless, the Norwegian country music artist already has gained comparably quite ...
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When you look at European country music, you very often purely focus on British artists. However, the German country music ...
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This week, I am gifted to have very interesting interviews again in my Flyctory.com Spotlight section. Just a few days ...
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When I reviewed her album Lucky in mid September 2020, I felt that the bio information about the country artist ...
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Emily Lockett is am impressive young British artist, just at the end of her teen-ages. After I saw her live ...
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Riley Whittaker contacted me just some one or two weeks ago. She is a young artist from Sedona, Arizona, who ...
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In the recent past, my Spotlight interview section hosted some very interesting young artists as well. For example, I chatted with ...
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Just in time: one day before Jim "Kimo" West will release his new album More Guitar Stories, I had the opportunity ...
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I am really gifted to chat with some interesting artists in August 2020 in my Spotlight interview section. Right after I ...
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In my Spotlight category, I am dealing with another interesting artist. Sandra North is originally from Trosa South of Stockholm ...
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It's quite a while since I published my latest Spotlight interview episode with Carolyn Miller in mid-June 2020. The more ...
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Meeting Carolyn Miller and seeing her playing live on stage at the BB King was one of the hightlights during ...
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When I was scanning songs for my New Country Hits Playlist, I ran into Lightning by the Colorado artist Kimi Most ...
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Lucy LaForge is the head and lead singer behind Lucy & La Mer. Based in Los Angeles, the singer / ...
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I am really glad that my Spotlight interview section is growing and also having some increasing popularity. In this interview, I met ...
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I was really looking forward to have this chat with Rob Favotto, who is an Australian artist doing instrumental music ...
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I ran into the music of Sylvia Aimee, a Dutch country music artist, some one year ago. The quality of ...
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Already the first single Back On The Road felt very promising - and at least when The Cumberland River Project released their ...
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Buy her incredible debut album No Saint during the C2C in Berlin in 2019 was maybe one of the events ...
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While my Spotlight Interview so far have been concentrated in the country music scene, I was very happy to run ...
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In this edition of my Spotlight interviews, I ran into a very interesting - and nice - artists in the British ...
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Many people in the German country music business see a lot of potential in Southern German artist Nik Wallner. At ...
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Van De Forst is one of the most interesting German country music / country pop music act. Vanessa, the person ...
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