The brand new album of legendary Finnish band KENZINER, is promoted and quoted as the great comeback of the year by their new record company, indeed I have serious expectations for this "The Last Horizon", let's examine this album's attributes point by point.

KENZINER was indeed considered as a very promising band in the late 90's, it helps to build the solid foundations of the fascinating Project VIRTUOCITY (R.I.P.), their two albums "Timescape" & "The Prophecies" respectively released in 1998/99 were fantastic back then, and clearly at the most innovating edge of the flourishing new born Melodic Metal scene of the early 2000, the style was highly tagged in the Malmsteenian / Scandinavian Neo-Classical Metal full of spectacular Shreddin' guitars, fast paced double kick drums, extremely challenging structures, weird patterns in the rhythmic shifts and high technical vocal parts in the same method of ARTENSION / ENIAC REQUIEM / ADAGIO / WARMEN or RING OF FIRE.

After fifteen years of split retreat and many years of a complete withdrawal from the Metal music business, in 2012, ex-VIRTUOCITY's mastermind/Guitar maestro Jarno Keskinen aka Jaron Sebastian Raven decided to resurrected KENZINER with the help of the heavenly talented singer Markku Kuikka (STATUS MINOR / THE RAGGED SAINTS / ex-GRÖNHOLM) in order to give to the legacy of KENZINER a worthy successor, the Finnish virtuoso then restarted the shredding machine and once again the balanced between Progressive complexity/Euro Power Metal's aggressiveness & typical Baroque lead guitars merged with harpsichords parts are perfectly crafted, the proud, strong and fierce vocals are in an obvious similarly with the aforementioned acts...With maybe a different impact in consequence of their sharp riffing approach like SYMPHONY X ("End Of An Era" / "Heroes Ride").

Mixed by Nino Laurenne (THUNDERSTONE / BATTLE BEAST) at Sonic Pump Studios, obviously the Production is another high-end factor for a crisp dynamic sound in perfect concordance with the impressive songwriting and performances of "The Last Horizon". Of course the team of players is a highly skilled bunch of musicians, with a constant ultra-difficult level and hyper tight delivery, acrobatic synchronization and precision madness could have been the best superlative to summarize for this CD.

After the superb and highly exciting slab of releases in 2013, the new German label Power Prog is about to demonstrated once again to the skeptical world -full of bitter unbelievers- that the cleverest kind of music ever played: The almighty Scandinavian Melodic Metal revealed in its pure and genuine integrity, is still alive and kicking today.