Vampire Magazine, Holland: http://www.vampire-magazine.com/album_reviews/lost/41741_lost_last_breath.htmlReviewed by Oana on Wednesday 31 May 2006
In a country without anyﾂ tradition in the metal genre, the members of the recently founded band LO.S.T. have managed to achieve more than 10 years of experience in various gothic or death metal bands. Most of them are history today or on an attempt to revive with new lineups, as the original members seem to have found their path within L.O.S.T., a melodic death metal bands that sums up everything the metal of the mid-90's had to offer. If they had succeeded to bring in the best of it or not, the debut EP Last Breath (2005) would tell after a throughgoing overview of the 5 tracks included.
What would characterize best the music on the E.P. is primarily the melody given by the keyboards and here it lays the first negative remark I'd make (there are a few, honestly). Without being a virtuoso of his instrument, Dragos Halmagi is playing his part no more, no less than correctly, lacking a bit of a feeling in interpretation. At least this is how I perceive the keyboards of L.O.S.T., maybe because of a certain resemblance with Katrin's (Crematory) parts on the old albums.
In rest the musical theme is developing smoothly, without any deviations from a certain recipe, a riffery in mid-tempo heavily supported by the bass, pretty equal on all the tracks.The two vocalists, BB Hanneman (also guitar) and Vlad Busca (also bass) play their scores very skillfully and I might add they give a certain freshness to a product instrumentally cramped couple of years ago. I would love to say that I have remarked the special contribution to the history of the genre, but I haven't. L.O.S.T.'s E.P. is somewhere on the borderline between the doom-death of the 95-96 era and the newer melodic death metal, well played, well composed, but still with no step out of the canons of the genre. One cannot tell that L.O.S.T. sounds like a certain band, though I have read some out of place comparisons with Therion. It has nothing to do with the Swedish band. My favourite track on the E.P. is definitely "Ziua ce vine", but the other song sung in Romanian, Clipa, also deserves a mention. The production is quite poor, too low and the bass too much brought in front of the rest of the instruments, while the drums have their specific sound that can make me recognize a Romanian band out of 100 others. And this is not a compliment.
If I would have to rank this product, I would be in trouble, as it would deserve a good mark compared to other similar products on the local market, but no more than a mediocre one on a worldwide scene. Still, if you are into keys, melody and catchy hummable refrains, L.O.S.T. can be a suitable option for you.
Friedhof Magazine, Spain: http://www.friedhof-magazine.com/criticas_detalle.php?id=830Gﾃｩnero: Melodic Death DoomGothic Metal
6.50 / 10
L.O.S.T es una banda rumana compuesta por cuatro ex miembros procedentes de la banda de doom del mismo paﾃｭs, Abigail. Este nuevo proyecto mama de las influencias de Abigail de donde sacan su pesadez y oscuridad para mezclarlo con unos toques de death melﾃｳdico adornado por teclados y alguna que otra influencia.
Los rumanos nos presentan en este su primer MCD, editado en el pasado 2005, un death metal lento y melﾃｳdico mezclado con tintes de doom-gothic. Veinte minutos repartidos en cinco temas creando mﾃｺsica donde prevalecen los medios tiempos llenos de pesadas y sencillas armonﾃｭas y donde destacan tambiﾃｩn, las simples melodﾃｭas de teclado que consiguen dar a todos los temas una atmﾃｳsfera bastante profunda y oscura.
En el apartado vocal predomina el registro de voz enfadada y desesperada del seﾃｱor Hanneman que es completado por coros y algunos otros registros por Vlad, bajista de la banda y George baterﾃｭa. Las letras de los dos primeros temas de este Last Breath estﾃ｡n escritas en su lengua materna, sin embargo en los tres ﾃｺltimos ya han decidido utilizar el inglﾃｩs, una lﾃ｡stima pues su lengua les da un carﾃ｡cter mﾃ｡s interesante y original.
El sonido que me ha venido a la cabeza al escuchar este cd, es el que hacﾃｭan allﾃ｡ por el principio de la dﾃｩcada de los 90, en el comienzo de su carrera musical, los alemanes Crematory, incluso alguna cosilla a los Therion del Lepaca Kliffoth. Esa mezcla de death metal atmosfﾃｩrico lleno de teclados con algunas tendencias pertenecientes al doom mﾃ｡s cercano al gothic metal.
El resultado final es la creaciﾃｳn de un mcd que suena aﾃｱejo y que reﾃｺne una serﾃｭe de influencias que van desde el doom al ghotic, pero donde prevalece el death melﾃｳdico, en definitiva, Last Breath estﾃ｡ lleno de melodﾃｭas muy sencillas y de fﾃ｡cil escucha, pero de poca complejidad creativa.
Este Mcd no supone un descubrimiento ni tampoco asombra lo mﾃ｡s mﾃｭnimo pero no se le puede negar que lo que quieren hacer, lo hacen decentemente y que incluso Last Breath tiene temas y momentos interesantes, sobre todo, si disfrutaste en su dﾃｭa con los primeros Crematory que es entonces cuando debes hacerte con este MCD, pero si no es asﾃｭ este ﾃ｡lbum es otro de es esos que pasarﾃ｡ sin gloria alguna por tus manos.
Veremos si editan algo mﾃ｡s en un futuro ,su evoluciﾃｳn hace mﾃ｡s atractiva e interesante su propuesta y pulen su mﾃｺsica.Su intenciﾃｳn es buena y de momento el resultado son unos decentes cinco temas.
Reseﾃｱado por: Ivﾃ｡n C. el 31 / 5 / 2006
(L.O.S.T is a Rumanian band composed by four ex- members coming from the band of doom of he himself country, Abigail. This new project sucks of the influences of Abigail from where they remove his slowness and the dark to mix it with I touch of death melﾃｳdico adorned by keyboards and some that another influence.
The Rumanians present/display to us the past in this their first MCD, published in 2005, death mixed slow and melﾃｳdico metal with dyes of doom-gothic. Twenty minutes distributed in five subjects creating music where the half heavy full times of and simple harmonies prevail and where also emphasize, simple melodﾃｭas of keyboard that are able to give to all the subjects a quite deep and dark atmosphere.
In the vocal section the registry of voice gotten upset and desperate of Mr. Hanneman predominates who is completed by choirs and some other registries by Vlad, bear of the band and George battery. The letters of both first subjects of this Last Breath are written in their maternal language, nevertheless in the three last ones already have decided to use the English, a pity then its language gives a more interesting and original character them.
The sound that me has at the top come when listening this CD, is the one whom they did there by the principle of the decade of the 90, in the beginning of its musical race, the Crematory Germans, even some cochair to the Therion of the Lepaca Kliffoth. That mixture of death full atmospheric metal of keyboards with some tendencies pertaining to doom closest to gothic metal.
The final result is the creation of mcd that sounds aged and that reunites a series of influences that go from doom to ghotic, but where death prevails melﾃｳdico, really, Last very simple Breath is full of melodﾃｭas and easy listening, but of little creative complexity.
This Mcd not does not suppose discovery neither either astonishes more minimum but not him it can to deny that what wants to do, they do it decently and that Last Breath even has subjects and interesting moments, mainly, if you enjoyed in its day the first Crematory that is then when you must hacerte with this MCD, but is not thus this album is another one of is those that some will pass without glory through your hands.
We will see if they publish something more in the future, its evolution makes its proposal more attractive and interesting and polish its music. Its intention is good and at the moment the result is decent five subjects.)
