Night Fall In Middle Earth +2 - Blind Guardian

Nightfall in Middle Earth is a very ambitious album that is based on JR Tolkien's The Simarillion.Many reviewers have compared this album to Queen but I think this lies in the song structures and vocals. This is also one of the best metal power/speed metal CDs ever to be released.It is fast and Heavy but it has a unique atmosphere that has been double tracked in the production department. Blind Guardian have produced some of the best choruses ever with these songs such as into the Storm, Blood Tears ,Noldor, The Curse of Feanor and Mirror Mirror. I would definitely recommend this album to anyone remotely interested in powermetal. I can ...  Read the complete review

“The field is lost Everything is lost The black one has fallen from the sky And the towers in ruins lie” The 1998 concept album from German power metal band Blind Guardian is based heavily on J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Silmarillion. Featuring spoken word segues and incredibly detailed song textures, this is more epic than any previous record released by the band, or many other bands for that matter. Metal fans unfamiliar with modern European metal (which can be classed as anything from progressive and speed metal to elf metal. Honestly.) may find this an excellent introduction to one of the most prominent and successful ...  Read the complete review

This is for me the best Blind Guardian album ever. Blind Guardian (from Germany) have Tolkien as it's Big Inspiration on their music. This album is based in one of his books - "The Silmarillion". Tolkien wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally ...  Read the complete review