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EricT
Don't you ever get...
Damn fucking right it is.
Fucking incredible live too... probably my favorite song of their live set.
Fucking incredible live too... probably my favorite song of their live set.
EricT
Don't you ever get...
I take that back, Ashes to Ashes was my favorite song of their set. I really was not expecting a gem like that to be pulled out, and they did mention it to be the first time to be played in the states. Haven't seen it on a setlist since, not to mention hadn't really seen it on a setlist before 
I dunno about that, but I'm really enjoying that album at the moment
You know what, I was going to say best "power" metal song...and then figured it wasn't really standard power metal....and then just left it alone to metal.
The day that ALL metal becomes "heavy metal" again will be glorious.
spaffe
Geisterglut
Yeah it's damned good, but not better than other kick-ass songs of theirs like Majesty, Battalions of Fear, Run for the Night, Lost in a Twilight Hall, Nightfall, Mordred's Song, Mirror, Mirror etc etc
They're such an awesome band and I can't understand why I haven't listened to their music for so many years. Most of the bands that got me into metal, such as Slayer's God Hates us All, Dark Funeral's Diabolus Interium, Borgir's Enthrone Darkness Triumphant are records that I've outgrown and that don't do anything for me nowadays, (and I think that talk of some sort of notion of "progress" and "refinement" in my tastes in music is warranted) but I do enjoy Blind Guardian just as much now, as I did when my interest in metal started.
What are the opinions on ANatO btw? Seeing how I'm enjoying them atm, I'm kind of tempted to give that record another try. The last mammoth of a track was quite phenomenal, but the others came off as soulless technical show off :|
They're such an awesome band and I can't understand why I haven't listened to their music for so many years. Most of the bands that got me into metal, such as Slayer's God Hates us All, Dark Funeral's Diabolus Interium, Borgir's Enthrone Darkness Triumphant are records that I've outgrown and that don't do anything for me nowadays, (and I think that talk of some sort of notion of "progress" and "refinement" in my tastes in music is warranted) but I do enjoy Blind Guardian just as much now, as I did when my interest in metal started.
What are the opinions on ANatO btw? Seeing how I'm enjoying them atm, I'm kind of tempted to give that record another try. The last mammoth of a track was quite phenomenal, but the others came off as soulless technical show off :|
Tranquillian
Svartmetallist
And then there was silence is magnificent. Hearing it for the first time actually brought a tear to my eye at a certain part of the song. It's all you can ask of an epic.
IOfTheStorm
Gogol Bordello
I can think of at least 30 B.G. songs that i like more than this but yes... it's killer.
QFT, except for the "first time" part, i had to listen to it some times to fully appreciate it.
QFT, except for the "first time" part, i had to listen to it some times to fully appreciate it.
EricT
Don't you ever get...
Yeah but if it was released in 1980 and only 7 copies of it were ever pressed on red vinyl, you'd be all over it like a cheap suit.
ANATO is fucking great, I don't understand why so many people loathe the album. It kills "A Twist in the Myth" which everyone went nuts over.
skeptik
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Yeah but if it was released in 1980 and only 7 copies of it were ever pressed on red vinyl, you'd be all over it like a cheap suit.
If it was Tales From The Twilight World I would.
I agree that it's better than A Twist In The Myth, but it sounds overly ambitious. Too busy for the band to be able to manage, in my opinion, and the guitar sound is neutered, and the vocal layering is abysmal. And the song writing is poor in comparison to everything they've done prior.
IMO
skyrefuge
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Hmm, it's like the 5th best song on that album (after "Lost in the Twilight Hall", "The Last Candle", "Lord of the Rings" and "Traveler In Time"), but it's still a great song, so yeah, I think that means Blind Guardian wins.
And ANatO is great. Took some time to warm into it, but now I love it. I'm one of the rare ones who doesn't think "And Then There Was Silence" is actually any better than the rest of the album (it's just a longer version of the same stuff), but that says more about how good the other songs are than it does about ATTWS.
The simple fact that BG is a rare "evolving band" in the "power metal" (ok...) genre gives them about 1500 extra points.
Neil
And ANatO is great. Took some time to warm into it, but now I love it. I'm one of the rare ones who doesn't think "And Then There Was Silence" is actually any better than the rest of the album (it's just a longer version of the same stuff), but that says more about how good the other songs are than it does about ATTWS.
The simple fact that BG is a rare "evolving band" in the "power metal" (ok...) genre gives them about 1500 extra points.
Neil
Demonspell
cheating the polygraph
That's exactly the reason why that album lowered my interest in BG, agreed on the fact that the orchestration disguises a drop in songwriting and leaves the songs little breathing room (though a few flashes of their previous glory show up, and ATTWS works because it's supposed to be as epic as humanly possible).
