Track Listing

1. Heart of Our Time
2. In Your Own Light
3. Genius
4. Expressing the Heart
5. High Climber
6. Crossfire
7. Grown Up
8. Summit
9. One Small Step
10. Hyperactive [Alternative Mix][*]
11. Dance of Life [Alternative Mix][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83855 in Music
• Released on: 2002-10-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

One of the best
This album is a very good album. It is the first one that Dave Hill did without Mal Spooner. The music is first class, their are slow songs like Grown Ups. Faster ones like the title song. Black and White is also first class music with the sound effects of what is going on the the world, in `1985, man being blow up by a bomb and being burned alive. Sadly not alot has changed. Dave Hill has a brillant voice for this kind of rock music. The way he can do ballards and hard rock songs. One of the best. It def is one of the best albums by Demon.

A timeless classic of an album.
Demon should have been huge. Dave Hill has the most emotive voice in rock, bar none. The standard of songwriting on this album is as good as it gets, but when you couple that with the phenomenal musicianship that's demonstrated, it makes for a uniquely satisfying listening experience.
One amazing thing about Demon is their ability to play from the heart, without ever repeating themselves or regurgitating old ideas. The remaster features eleven diverse tracks. 'Grown Up' sounds Pink Floyd-ish without being derivative, while the beautifully emotive 'Heart of our Time' never fails to put a smile on my face. 'High Climber' sees Dave Hill taking a powerful, aggressive vocal stance, backed up by heavy-riffing twin guitars and a perfect rhythm section. 'Hyperactive' - the first of two bonus tracks on the remaster - features transcendent guitar melodies and a chorus that's vaguely reminiscent of Marillion's 'Incommunicado'. The other bonus track, 'Dance of Life', is an upbeat rocker with a lyrical tip-of-the-hat to Elvis Presley.
Demon are true originals, which is perhaps why they never achieved the gigantic commercial success they deserved. They did, however, produce some of the finest rock albums of all time. This is one such album. Every self-respecting fan of rock or metal should own it.
Having seen Demon playing live, I can confirm that they are very much the real deal. I met and hung out with them afterwards, and they are the most genuinely friendly, funny, and generous musicians you could ever come across.
A final note is that Mike Stone's production work on the remastered album is nothing short of stunning.
Buy it, play it loud...it will have you smiling from ear to ear!

Second to one
Demon did one outstanding record: "The Plague". Before that two sort of Sabbath meet AC/DC -ish ones - "Night of the Demon" and "The Uninvited Guest" - both of wich totally lacked originality but were worth a listen just the same. After "The Plague" came this one.
Expectations were high for the follow up: Heart of our Time. And the outcome is more than ok - 4 stars might be half a star to much, but as a whole "Heart of our Time" is certainly worth your money and time if you like rock in the moody and introspect way that Demon did it at the time.
Demon sadly lost one of the main creative sources - Mal Spooner - along the way and this may well be the reason why the quality of the music from here on is deterioating - hardly any of their subsequent releases are more than 2 maybe 3 stars tops.
But if you like The Plague - go and by this one aswell - its a good collection of songs and especially the downtempo and mellow ones are standouts - I particularily like "Grown Ups" and the The title track.
But dont spend money on this one before you own "The Plague". If you dont own it or know it go and get it - its a masterpiece and one of the most consistent and well thought out conceptalbums ever made.