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| 0.0 | rasputin | November 18th 08 |
Undoubtedly the greatest power metal album ever released. You don't even need to listen to any other power metal albums, because they sound exactly the same as this except not as good.
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| 5.0 classic | Zizzer | July 14th 10 |
With Nightfall in Middle-Earth, an album based on Tolkien's high fantasy tale The Silmarillion, Blind Guardian strikes gold. Hansi Kursch does an outstanding job of changing his voice to portray the emotions of Feanor, Melkor, Maedhros, Fingolfin and others in the collection of tales preceding The Lord of the Rings books, and the music is right with anything else they've done, making it accessible to those who aren't familiar with the tales (even though they might prefer to skip the dialogue sessions in between). Nightfall in Middle-Earth is a classic album and highly recommended if you're into this type of music.
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| 3.5 great | Harlz | March 7th 21 |
No doubt these dudes are talented, and this is rated very highly but boy I just can't get into the vocals, something is just off about them and it has always bugged me like nothing else. Probably a 4.5 if I didn't find them so poor.
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| 4.5 superb | Arokan | May 22nd 18 |
Initially I had a hard time getting into this album. Propably because it's quite long and rhas a lot of spoken interludes. But I'm so glad I kept listening to this because when it rfinally clicked with me it was like nothing I've ever heard before. Compared to this, other rpower metal groups seem like they are some high school bands. Vocal on this record is rpropably one of the finest performances ever recorded for a power metal album. Tracks are rvery diverse and often shift tempos along with vocal style and guitar work, all this rcombinded makes you sit on the edge of your seat for the whole duration.
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| 4.0 excellent | Corde64 | March 30th 16 |
One of the greatest power metal albums ever.
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| 4.0 excellent | BRAman22 | June 22nd 15 |
This is a very unique album, I'm glad not all albums are like this but its cool since its different. On here you'll find some solid dark fantasy sounding power metal.
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| 4.0 excellent | ThrashK | June 2nd 14 |
Certainly the most accessible Blind Guardian album to this point, however it's far from uninspired or generic. Strengthens my opinion that Blind Guardian is the best power metal band ever.
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| 4.0 excellent | maninthebox | April 9th 13 |
On Nightfall in Middle Earth Blind Guardian, shed some of the faster and thrashier elements found on their classic albums Imaginations from the Other side and Tales from the Twilight World. This is both a good and bad thing. It's good that in doing so Blind Guardian stayed fresh and relevant and practically created a whole new orchestral/classical/operatic version of power metal with the likes of songs like Nightfall and Mirror, Mirror which does draw influences from the mentioned genres. The bad is because they lost some of their more metal elements which was one of the big draws for me on their earlier albums which were epic power metal but still had a mean streak. Still a great album and a master concept album. Best songs: Into The Storm, Noldor, and Time Stands Still(At the Iron Hill)
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| 4.5 superb | Sincal1996 | November 11th 12 |
Blind Guardian, Tolkien and Power Metal - need I say any more?
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| 5.0 classic | MaidenUFO | July 7th 12 |
THIS IS THE BEST BLIND GUARDIAN ALBUM! After the awesome "Somewhere far beyond" and the other masterpiece "Imaginations from the other side", the power metal gods made their best album...best songs here? the whole album, but the highlights are Mirror mirror, time stands still, noldor and nightfall....
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| 4.0 excellent | Fernando Alves STAFF | December 27th 11 |
One of the greatest power metal albums released in the 90's. "Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)" is an amazing song.
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| 5.0 classic | 05McDonaldT | August 3rd 11 |
the ultimate album from the ultimate power metal band
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| 3.5 great | Xenorazr | August 11th 10 |
Blind Guardian tackle a promising concept on Nightfall in Middle Earth and bring some strong material throughout the runtime. But this also leads to a couple problems with the album, namely its length and unnecessary, quick track breaks with almost every song. The music here is good enough and excellent during select points, but its all executed without living up to the greater potential.
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| 5.0 classic | CutMan | July 30th 10 |
Blind Guardian really mastered their style on this album, I believe. This is where everything came together entirely, and they very much knew who they were. And this is probably lead singer Hansi's proudest lyrical endeavor, as it is a concept album based on a pretty complex J.R.R. Tolkien book. If that's not too cheesey for you, this will blow your socks off.
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| 4.5 superb | iceman3019 | June 29th 08 |
If you didn't know already, this album tells a story, that of The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. Blind Guardian's interpretation is very faithful to the orignal work, and at the same time, very unique and suitable for their brand of power metal. The album is interlaced with spoken word interludes, that really help to convey that you are not only listening to excellent music, but also how the Noldor were exiled from Aman, how Fingolfin valiantly fell in single combat in front of the iron gates of Angband, how Morgoth forever doomed the children of Hurin . . . etc.
In other words, you're listening to a tale of epic proportions, told by a band playing technical and melodic music of epic proportions. Highly recommended.
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