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 Night At The Opera - Blind Guardian
Description: Genre: Hard Rock & Metal - Heavy Metal / Artist: Blind Guardian / Import / Audio CD released at Century Media / Disc #1 ... more  Night At The Opera - Blind Guardian ... Tracklisting1 Precious Jerusalem 2 Battlefield 3 Under the Ice 4 Sadly Sings Destiny 5 Maiden and the Minstrel Knight 6 Wait for an Answer 7 Soulforged 8 Age of False Innocence 9 Punishment Divine 10 And Then There Was Silence 11 Mies del Dolor [*] Newest Review: ... high-pitched, effeminate squeak remarkably similar to Sparks' Russel Mael. Hansi's regular singing style only surfaces on a ... more ... few occasions such as the ballad opening of 'The Maiden and the Minstrel Knight,' and the rest of the time he conjures the image in my mind of a delighted mole popping up from the ground and celebrating his freedom. This maintained mood becomes incredibly tiresome across a seventy-minute album.
The album's progressive leanings are its biggest failing, as not one song seems able to stand still, and the only ones that manage to retain some sense of consistency and repetition tend to be the best (the more mellow 'Sadly ...more |
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Night At The Opera - Blind Guardian: Reached the Point of No Return (1009 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 23/02/08 (Very useful, 20 readings)
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'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 ...
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