 | Tracklist:
Disc 1
01 War of Wrath
02 Into the Storm
03 Welcome to Dying
04 Nightfall
05 The Script for my Requiem
06 Harvest of Sorrow
07 The Soulforged
08 Valhalla
09 Majesty
10 Mordred\'s Song
11 Born in a Mourning Hall
Disc 2
01 Under the Ice
02 Bright Eyes
03 Punishment Divine
04 The Bard\'s Song (In the Forest)
05 Imaginations from the Other Side
06 Lost in the Twilight Hall
07 A Past and Future Secret
08 Time Stands Still (at the Iron Hill)
09 Journey Through the Dark
10 Lord of the Rings
11 Mirror Mirror
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Arguably the best power metal band in the world, Blind Guardian continues to release some of the best music you can buy. They release albums that are perfect in almost every aspect and never seem to let me down. With the release of the band's live album in 2003, I wasn't sure if the near perfect quality would continue, but after the first two songs, I was quickly rest assured that it was still there. The double disc album consists of 22 purely amazing songs and clocks in at nearly 2 hours and 15 minutes of what I would consider the band's greatest hits.
The album was recorded during the span of the Blind Guardian World Tour in 2002/2003, in many cities such as Tokyo, Venice, Barcelona, Madrid, and Moscow.
Disc 1:
The first two songs come courtesy of the band's 1998 release "Night Fall in Middle-Earth" ("War of Wrath" and "Into the Storm" ). After those first two tracks some of my favorites on the disc begin to play. "Welcome to Dying", "Nightfall", and "The Script for my Requiem" are played with razor sharp precision and give the notion that the band has the audience wrapped around their finger. Specifically with "Nightfall"; a magical mood is cast upon the listener. It's truly something to behold. While there is some good meat in the middle of the album, it's the last 4 songs that make you appreciate and love Blind Guardian that much more. With "Majesty" the band revisits their first release. That's fairly evident because instead of a power metal feel (which the band is now notorious for) there's more of a heavy metal and in some portions, speed metal feel to it. Winding up the first disc is "Born in a Mourning Hall" which is a fan favorite. While it's a decent track, I prefer some of the other songs more like: "Nightfall", "Welcome to Dying", "Majesty", and "Harvest of Sorrow".
Disc 2:
While the first disc was great, the second is phenomenal! Pretty much each and every song on it is a hit (or should be). Ripping right into it is "Under the Ice". After "Under the Ice" has gotten you in the mood, "Bright Eyes" comes in and is just a timeless track. In some aspects doesn't sound like a BG tune, but it's great nonetheless. One of the biggest hits is a track "The Bard's Song (In the Forest)". This song has a classical guitar sound to it and when I listen to it, I kind of just close my eyes and relax, but when you listen to it closely, it's actually a pretty sad song. The near 10 minute version of "Imaginations from the other Side" is Blind Guardian at their best. I'd have to say it's the best song on the second disc. The bad thing about this second disc is that the last 5 songs are so great; you don't want it to end. The last two really do it for me though. "Lord of the Rings" and "Mirror Mirror" (which is probably one of the 'biggest' songs on this album) totally blew me away. I adore "Lord of the Rings". The music is kind of gentle and creepy and the lyrics are so good it seems like they took a passage out of 'The Hobbit'.
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I saw this in my cd store...almost bought it too.
Should go back and buy it someday...BG is a band I'm attempting to get into.
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They're a great band to get into.
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Im kind of put off by their persistant fantasy like themes.
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It's power metal...would you expect anything less? :P
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They should have metal that's based on storylines from pornographic films.
I'd buy that album.
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lol
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"They should have metal that's based on storylines from pornographic films."
They do its called GWAR
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ha Gwar.... good comment
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| | | Album Rating: 4
Excellent album. The only thing on it I didn't like was that they kind of stole the name for one of their songs from Metallica. "Harvest Of Sorrow" "Harvester Of Sorrow" from AJFA
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I hope you realize that it's quite.. well, dumb to say things like that. There are tonnes of songs with the same title. Next you're probably going to say Serj Tankian stole the title "Money" from Pink Floyd?
havent heard this album, sadly 
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Even though they can't pull off the super grandiose tracks perfectly (which is like, half of the setlist), I just adore to hear them try...for some weird reason. Anyways, I'm gonna be picking this up soon, yay Christmas money :D
Digging: Tristania - Widow's Weeds
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