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Traveller in Time
Welcome to Dying
Weird Dreams
Lord of the Rings
Goodbye my Friend
Lost in the Twilight Hall
Tommyknockers
Altair 4
The Last Candle
Run for the Night -live-
(CD-Bonus)
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For quite a while Blind Guardian
was my favorite german band, more exactly until "Imaginations from
the other Side". They had an optimal start with "Battalions of
Fear". This album is a metallians dream come true. Speed and huge melodies,
great guitar work and outstanding vocals. Not even a whole year later came
"Follow the Blind", and it was even better! With >Banish from
Sanctuary< the best Blind Guardian track ever was on this album, among
classics as the title-track, >Valhalla<, >Hall of the King<
and so on! Also an alltime-classic! But I decided to only take one album
of each band in the classics-section, so it is not featured seperatly here
as it deserves. Well, as I tried to explain "Follow the Blind"
is nothing but a milestone in metal! And than comes the surprise: The next
album "Tales from the twilight world" is even better!!! No joke,
songs as the varied speedmetal hymns >Traveller in Time<, >The
last Candle< >Lost in the Twilight Hall< are eternal! Exactly like
the fantasy medieval ballad >Lord of the Rings<, the weird >Altair
4< or the dark smasher >Tommyknockers<. The best stuff germany,
no, europe has to offer!!! Nothing can be compared with these creations!
Hail to the Guardians! I will buy all their albums forever always hoping
that any time they create something equal again! But sadly the Guardian
weakens. "Somewhere far beyond" was the last all great release.
"Imaginations from the Other Side" has to few real great melodies,
a problem the record is sharing with the follow-up "Nightfall in Middle-earth".
Of course no bad album, but compared to the early works also no good one,
sorry. Since "Imaginations..." Blind Guardian is nearly not writing
"verses" any more, just changing melodies around the (too) bombastic
chorusses. For a musician this may be greater challenge, but to the listener
it's getting boring I think. |
