Blind Guardian
Member
I was going to pretend that i had enough of a life to not take the effort to translate the rest of the song descriptions but what the hell.
"First out is the mellow "Zeppelin",the albums shortest track. Dur and moll is mixed and Mikael shares the vocal duties with Nathalie Lorichs. I dont know if the three minutes and seven seconds long interlude is such a jeans creamer that the record company wants to say but still a easy listened introduction to a hard listened album.
""Tool/Sabbath/Tull" starts in a doomy manner with a riff that stinks Candlemass and Black Sabbath long way. Not because the riff sounds like anything Leif Edling or Tony Iommi would write,here it´s rather the feeling that counts. A calm vers follows,followed by the return of the heavy riff,something that puts even more of a Sabbath-feel to the whole thing. Very Good. The song takes whole new turns when a "For Whom The Bell Tolls" harmony drives a hypnotizing chord progression that never wants to end. The final impression is nice but anonymous."
"The albums long runner "The Epic" starts with fatal and bluesy soloing. Something that could be a verse starts and the mellotrone has a constant presence. Then it gets twisting. Backward voices in true Twin Peaks-spirit takes on,a black metal harmony takes over,when the albums most typical Opeth-part starts. Black metal dramatic and dissonant moll chords against a mat of thundering bassdrums. A threatful crescendo is pulsating and the Voivod-feel from the first track takes on. I sigh of relief when the song is over. To me the first time impressions are way too many and i dont really know which eyes to shut or which knees to hammer on. But the strange thing is that i like what i´ve heard."
"The bombasticness - that has a presence throughout the whole album - gets almost filmical proportions in the last track "Middle eastern introspection" The telephone-voice,that was used on among others Blackwater Park and Deliverance,is back. As the working title implies it is a middle eastern sounding ending track with big riffs and melancholic mellotron playing. Exciting but hard to grab."
"First out is the mellow "Zeppelin",the albums shortest track. Dur and moll is mixed and Mikael shares the vocal duties with Nathalie Lorichs. I dont know if the three minutes and seven seconds long interlude is such a jeans creamer that the record company wants to say but still a easy listened introduction to a hard listened album.
""Tool/Sabbath/Tull" starts in a doomy manner with a riff that stinks Candlemass and Black Sabbath long way. Not because the riff sounds like anything Leif Edling or Tony Iommi would write,here it´s rather the feeling that counts. A calm vers follows,followed by the return of the heavy riff,something that puts even more of a Sabbath-feel to the whole thing. Very Good. The song takes whole new turns when a "For Whom The Bell Tolls" harmony drives a hypnotizing chord progression that never wants to end. The final impression is nice but anonymous."
"The albums long runner "The Epic" starts with fatal and bluesy soloing. Something that could be a verse starts and the mellotrone has a constant presence. Then it gets twisting. Backward voices in true Twin Peaks-spirit takes on,a black metal harmony takes over,when the albums most typical Opeth-part starts. Black metal dramatic and dissonant moll chords against a mat of thundering bassdrums. A threatful crescendo is pulsating and the Voivod-feel from the first track takes on. I sigh of relief when the song is over. To me the first time impressions are way too many and i dont really know which eyes to shut or which knees to hammer on. But the strange thing is that i like what i´ve heard."
"The bombasticness - that has a presence throughout the whole album - gets almost filmical proportions in the last track "Middle eastern introspection" The telephone-voice,that was used on among others Blackwater Park and Deliverance,is back. As the working title implies it is a middle eastern sounding ending track with big riffs and melancholic mellotron playing. Exciting but hard to grab."
