Anfang November 2004 soll das neue PRIDE OF LIONS-Album The Destiny Stone erscheinen, das erneut in der Besetzung Peterik/Hayes, Breckenfeld/Jones/Aquino/Cullen/Hitchcock eingespielt wurde. Produziert wird das Ganze im World Stage Studio von Jim Peterik selbst und Larry Millas. Neben dem Einfluss von Peteriks ehemaliger Band SURVIVOR, soll das neue Werk auch einige eher pompöse und bombastische Arrangements beinhalten.
Hier einige Infos von Jim Peterik zu den Texten des Albums: The title track is a song about a mystic experience I had during my early childhood when I seemed to travel back in time and saw infinity (really!) – it was as if I was seeing past lives or future lives or outer space.
There is a ancient sacred stone located in the Edinburgh castle in Scotland, that houses a mystic rock they call the stone of destiny. Seekers have come from the whole world over for hundreds of years to sit of the rock and receive messages from God about their future and their past. This song is about that sacred stone and my wish someday to visit that shrine and try to make some sense of my childhood visions.
Second Hand Life is about finding your own way in life and not relying on the blueprint anyone else has laid out for you. Back To Camelot is a power ballad about going back to a time when it was all for one and men made good on their promises: it is a very romantic song. Man Behind The Mask is about the illusions of stardom and a man trying to determine if a woman is interested in him, or his myth. The Courage To Love Somebody is about the committment we make when we decide to love. Falling in love is the easy part. Staying in love – a whole lot harder. It´s the courage to rise above the odds and risk a broken heart.
Weitere Songtitel: What Kind Of Fool, Falling Back to Then, Born To Believe, The Gift of Song, Parallel Line, Letter To The Future.