Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon are a Swedish power metal and progressive metal band from Gothenburg, active from 1998 to 2009. The line-up includes Martin Furängen, Wojtek Lisicki, Christian Nyquist and Daniel Heiman. The band is associated with heavy metal as well as power metal and progressive metal.

History

The group first performs under the name 2ighlander from 1990 to 1994, with Joacim Cans on vocals and other musicians who later become members of HammerFall. The band then pauses, reforms in the late 1990s, briefly uses the same name again, and then adopts the name Lost Horizon. Although the band is Swedish, Wojtek Lisicki is from Poland.

Line-up changes and later activity

Daniel Heiman and Fredrik Olsson leave the band in 2005. In 2009 the group releases three short instrumental teaser clips, titled “Wizard”, “Spirit” and “Fire”. The band continues to sell merchandise, but no further new music activity follows.

Other act with the same name

Another group has also recorded under the name Lost Horizon: a rock outfit from Fairbanks, Alaska, which releases the studio album Indecision in 2000.