GMD Poll: Blind Guardian's Discography Ranked

[crimsonfloyd]

Directions: Rank Blind Guardian's 11 albums, and number each album 1-11. Ties are OK. Your first place album earns 11 points, your second place album earns 10 points, etc.

Rules:

• You may rank as few as 6 albums. Lists with less than 6 albums will not be counted.
• If you list less than 11 albums, the first placed album will still get 11 points, the last placed album will still get 1 point, and the albums in between will have points distributed proportionately. The average points earned for albums that are not listed will not be impacted positively or negatively, so if you don't rank an album, you neither help it or hurt it.
• If you don't number your list then it will be assumed that it is ranked in order

At the end, the albums will be ranked based on their average number of points per vote.

You have until Saturday, July 17th at 10:00 AM PST to finalize your list, re-familiarize yourself albums you haven’t heard in awhile, familiarize yourself with albums you haven’t heard at all, lobby for any albums you think are underrated, and lobby against any albums you think are overrated.

Battalions of Fear (1988)
Follow the Blind (1989)
Tales From the Twilight World (1990)
Somewhere Far Beyond (1992)
Imaginations From the Other Side (1995)
Nightfall in Middle Earth (1998)
A Night at the Opera (2002)
A Twist in the Myth (2006)
At the Edge of Time (2010)
Beyond the Red Mirror (2015)
Twilight Orchestra: Legacy of the Dark Lands (2019)

 

[Slammed]

1. Tales From The Twilight World (1990)
2. A Night At The Opera (2002)
3. Imagination From The Other Side (1995)
4. Beyond The Red Mirror (2015)
5. Battalions Of Fear (1988)
6. Somewhere Far Beyond (1992)
7. A Twist In The Myth (2006)
8. At The Edge Of Time (2010)
9. Follow The Blind (1989)
10. Twilight Orchestra – Legacy Of The Dark lands (2019)
11. Nightfall In Middle Earth (1998)

 

[RadicalThrasher]

1. Somewhere Far Beyond
2. Battalions of Fear
3. Tales From The Twilight World
4. Follow the Blind
5. Nightfall in Middle Earth
6. Imaginations from the Other Side
7. A Twist in the Myth
8. A Night at the Opera


Need to give their newer stuff a listen and maybe refresh some other things.

 

[zerostatic]

1. Somewhere Far Beyond
2. Tales from the Twilight World
3. Imaginations from the Other side
4. A Twist in the Myth
5. A Night at the Opera - I want to rate this one higher because it has Battlefield and the Soulforged.
6. Nightfall in Middle Earth
7. At The Edge of Time

 

[CiG]

1. Somewhere Far Beyond
2. Follow the Blind
3. Battalions of Fear
4. Tales From the Twilight World
5. Nightfall in Middle-Earth
6. Imaginations From the Other Side
7. A Night at the Opera
8. A Twist in the Myth

I haven't heard the last 3 and likely won't anytime soon, they're too long and the style isn't something I wanna sit through. Legacy of the Dark Lands alone is like 2+ hours long.



Oh yeah and shout-out to the Lucifer's Heritage demos.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1. Imaginations From the Other Side
2. Nightfall in Middle-Earth
3. Somewhere far Beyond
4. At the Edge of Time
5. Tales From the Twilight World
6. Beyond the Red Mirror
7. A Night at the Opera
8. Follow the Blind
9. Battalions of Fear
10. A Twist in the Myth
11. Twilight Orchestra

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I think Nightfall is my favorite

1. Nightfall
2. Somewhere Far Beyond
3. Imaginations From the Other Side
4. A Night At the Opera

Basically all the Blind Guardian I listen to. lol

 

[Bloopy]

Festive poll bump. Plenty more people out there with nothing better to do over holiday time than come up with lists, right?

 

[CiG]

Who voted for this shit and then never participated?

 

[Bloopy]

@Podgie and @Vegard Pompey

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Yeah, I was trying to rank this but after the first 3 or 4 albums everything started to sound the same.

 

[CiG]

 

[Krow]

Imaginations From the Other Side
Somewhere Far Beyond
Nightfall in Middle Earth
Tales From the Twilight World
A Night at the Opera
Battalions of Fear
Follow the Blind
A Twist In the Myth
Fuck off the rest

I’ve always wanted to like the first two more than I do. Just never have

 

[Bloopy]

If this was tallied up...

11. Twilight Orchestra: Legacy of the Dark Lands [1.5/11 from 2 votes]
10. A Twist in the Myth [2.9/11 from 6 votes]
9. At the Edge of Time [4.33/11 from 3 votes]
8. A Night at the Opera [4.67/11 from 6 votes]
7. Follow the Blind [5.14/11 from 5 votes]
6. Nightfall in Middle-Earth [5.4/11 from 6 votes]
5. Battalions of Fear [6.31/11 from 5 votes]
4. Beyond the Red Mirror [7/11 from 2 votes]
3. Imaginations From the Other Side [7.73/11 from 6 votes]
2. Tales From the Twilight World [8.15/11 from 6 votes]
1. Somewhere Far Beyond [9.6/11 from 6 votes]

Also lol that the band managed to sneak out another album over a year after the poll was supposed to close.