Glorfindel
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Avantasia Lost in Space Part I3.5
Avantasia The Wicked Symphony3.0
An album which really pales compared to The Metal Opera or Ghostlights. Dying For An Angel and the title track are all that save this album from being average dross.
Led Zeppelin Remasters4.5
Yes The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection4.0
The Who Then and Now4.0
Two Steps From Hell Invincible4.0
Stratovarius Intermission3.0
The Script The Script3.5
Scouting for Girls Scouting For Girls3.0
The Rasmus Black Roses3.0
The Rasmus Hide from the Sun3.5
The Rasmus Dead Letters3.5
The Rasmus Into3.0
The Rasmus Hell of a Tester2.5
The Rasmus Playboys2.5
Ludovico Einaudi I Giorni3.0
Gorillaz Demon Days3.0
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand3.5
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways3.5
Eagles Very Best Of4.0
Bon Jovi Crossroad4.0
Alan Parsons A Valid Path3.0
Avril Lavigne Let Go3.0
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction4.0
U2 The Joshua Tree4.0
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms4.5
Eric Clapton Slowhand4.5
Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night4.0
Fleetwood Mac Rumours5.0
Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll4.5
Rainbow Rising5.0
Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune4.5
Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties4.5
Yes The Ladder3.0
Yes Relayer4.5
Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans4.5
Yes Close to the Edge5.0
Yes Fragile5.0
Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards4.5
Uriah Heep Look at Yourself4.0
Uriah Heep Salisbury4.5
Uriah Heep Very 'eavy... Very 'umble4.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV5.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III4.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II4.5
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King4.5
Steppenwolf The Second4.0
Steppenwolf Steppenwolf4.0
Maegi Skies Fall3.5
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)4.5
Epica The Phantom Agony3.0
Elvenking Wyrd3.5
Elvenking Heathenreel3.5
Avantasia Ghostlights4.0
Avantasia The Metal Opera4.5
Sonata Arctica Ecliptica3.5
Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands3.0
Stratovarius Elements, Pt. 13.5
Stratovarius Infinite4.0
Stratovarius Destiny3.5
Stratovarius Visions4.0
Stratovarius Episode3.5
Stratovarius Fourth Dimension3.0
Gamma Ray No World Order4.0
Gamma Ray Power Plant4.5
Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space4.5
Gamma Ray Land of the Free5.0
Quite possibly power metal's finest hour (alongside Nightfall In Middle-Earth & Keepers II) - Hansen's vocals here are gleaming jewel in power metal's armour. Rebellion In Dreamland, Land Of The Free & Abyss Of The Void are quite easily some of the best songs ever produced by the genre, with RiD arguably the best ever written.
Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius1.5
Gamma Ray Sigh No More3.0
Gamma Ray Heading for Tomorrow3.0
Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror4.0
Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time4.5
Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth4.0
Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera3.5
One gloomy winter afternoon my ears were introduced to the wonders of power metal by the stunning
vocals of Hansi Kursch and beating drums of Thomen Stauch. The tragedy of the Trojan War had never
seemed more alive and encapsulating as when I first listened to 'And Then There Was Silence'. In
fourteen minutes of spell-binding storytelling I had been converted to a genre I had never heard
of before and found a new favourite band.

Five years later the memory of that fateful day is somewhat jaded. Blind Guardian's seventh outing
certainly does not sound as it once did before, having explored their entire repertoire. Other
albums capture the majesty which this German outfit can conjure and it is surely not a coincidence
that very few of the songs from A Night At The Opera are performed in their live concerts. It
seems to me now a wonder that this rather sedate yet well-crafted album led to my enduring love of
the genre.

For those new to power metal or Blind Guardian this is definitely not the album to start with.
Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth5.0
Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side5.0
Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond3.5
Blind Guardian Tales from the Twilight World3.5
Blind Guardian Follow the Blind3.5
Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear3.0
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II4.5
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I4.0
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