Night At The Opera - Blind Guardian

'A Night at the Opera' is a difficult album in the Blind Guardian discography, and sadly proved to be the start of a new sound that turned a number of old fans away. As the follow-up to their brilliant Tolkienian concept album 'Nightfall in Middle-Earth,' it had a lot of pressure upon it: the band could opt for a back-to-basics style in the face of their previous experimental epic, but one that would inevitably fail to stand out compared to their excellent earlier releases, or they could try to up the ante further. They tried the second approach, but the end result isn't particularly satisfying. The main difference here is a shift from power metal to a form of ...  Read the complete review