The release’s title Lionheart describes the included music perfectly: on the one hand incredibly snappy and aggressive, some compositions also show a hearty, harmonious, even fragile component, which gives the album a changeable and varied character.
This versatility begins with the experienced vocal acrobatics, from intense screeching vocals with At-The-Gates-Vibes over voluminous growls to spoken passages and discreet female singing, we can find more than one can expect from a Metal album.
Even the opener Take Your Fear combines melancholy and scratchy heaviness in a formidable manner, wonderfully melodic leads and a simple catchy refrain at Down Through The Gardens act as  additional ear-catchers. So really exciting and goose-pimps-arousing packs me the emotional and yet completely uncomfortable half-ballad The Mirror Of Tragedy with dynamic increases and almost vulnerable sounds.
Truth Unfolds entertains with many-voiced text passages and a variety of moods, since a breather would be just right... but no way, the drifting rhythms of the title track Lionheart do not leave me alone - the initially relaxed groovy instrumental piece The Ice Storm creates a remedy, before The Light Will Rape Us All again presents an injurious structure for the vertebral vertebrae, but one-dimensionality remains an alien word through flowing rhythmic changes. Very nice but not at all placative leads offer the right amount of melody without pushing the aggression into the background.
The epic effort Punishment Of Life inspires with filigree melodic curves and delicate vocals, before subliminal rage spreads, which reflects the inner struggle of sad melancholy and desperate effervescence. The outstanding singer William Bergbacka is once again deeply involved in the vocal trick box at Suicidal Final Art, because hysterical cries, hearty clear vocals and voluminous growls are used very intensively and extremely well for the refinement of the varied, dynamic piece. Finally, the quiet The Passage completes the album formidably and ends a rich, exciting and variable work with long-term effect.