Members Rogueleader Posted August 11, 2010 Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 Sick Album!!![YOUTUBE]TMMCTE9ixWY[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RiffDaemon Posted August 11, 2010 Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 I have this dreadful feeling that I'm going to spin it a couple times and never listen to it again, just as I did with A Twist In The Myth and A Night At The Opera Edit: After listening to that song twice, that dread is getting much worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rogueleader Posted August 11, 2010 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 I have this dreadful feeling that I'm going to spin it a couple times and never listen to it again, just as I did with A Twist In The Myth and A Night At The Opera I like it better than both those albums. I've already spun it twice today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RiffDaemon Posted August 11, 2010 Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 I like it better than both those albums. I've already spun it twice today. That gives me hope. I'll keep my fingers crossed. I need to check out the new Gamma Ray, too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave L Posted August 11, 2010 Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 Bought it yesterday... I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rogueleader Posted August 11, 2010 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 That gives me hope. I'll keep my fingers crossed. I need to check out the new Gamma Ray, too.. I'm a huge Gamma Ray and I was disappointed with To The Metal. Don't keep your hopes up too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rogueleader Posted August 11, 2010 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 Bought it yesterday... I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave L Posted August 11, 2010 Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 Agreed, Nightfall is by far their best. Yeah, by now it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JerEvil Posted August 11, 2010 Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 They will never top Nightfall unfortunately. I am still a huge fan of Somewhere Far Beyond and Imaginations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jnurp Posted August 11, 2010 Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 LOLOLOLOL you completely dissed Marty then post this {censored}...gtfo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rogueleader Posted August 11, 2010 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 LOLOLOLOL you completely dissed Marty then post this {censored}...gtfo. Would I get back in your good books by posting the new behemoth video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members superflyinmonke Posted August 11, 2010 Members Share Posted August 11, 2010 They will never top Nightfall unfortunately. I am still a huge fan of Somewhere Far Beyond and Imaginations. {censored}ing this! I still like to listen to Follow the Blind though. Imaginations is unbelievably epic, but Nightfall in Middle Earth is my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RiffDaemon Posted August 12, 2010 Members Share Posted August 12, 2010 I'm a huge Gamma Ray and I was disappointed with To The Metal. Don't keep your hopes up too much. I was afraid of that. I'll give it a whirl on Grooveshark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeadNight Warrior Posted August 12, 2010 Members Share Posted August 12, 2010 I have this dreadful feeling that I'm going to spin it a couple times and never listen to it again, just as I did with A Twist In The Myth and A Night At The Opera Yeah, I'll still pick it up, but I don't imagine anything new they do will grab me like Nightfall or any of the other earlier albums. A Night at the Opera I didn't mind (except for the drum sound), but A Twist in the Myth didn't even give me a semi. Also not particularly a fan of Hansi's voice on ANATO or ATITM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeadNight Warrior Posted August 12, 2010 Members Share Posted August 12, 2010 Yeah, by now it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RiffDaemon Posted September 7, 2010 Members Share Posted September 7, 2010 Ok. Update. I listened to the new Blind Guardian album today. I'm kinda lukewarm about it ... The first four tracks are nice. The first is good once it gets going, the second is great, slows up a little bit on the third, and Ride Into Obsession speeds up again. Great "modern" Blind Guardian with nice throwbacks to the old stuff. Then it takes a turn on the "ballad", Curse My Name. This one irked me the entire way through. Kinda reminded me of "A Past And Future Secret meets Blackmoore's Night" ... but without the awesomeness of A Past And Future Secret. Then the next three songs are just overdone and go nowhere much like what you'd find on ANATO. A Voice In The Dark takes you away from the ANATO-styled stuff and goes straight into the goods. And the story ends ( ) with Wheel of Time, which is just too much on the orchestra stuff .. and I just realized that I've already written my thoughts on this earlier in this thread So yeah, I'll most likely rip the first half of the CD, add A Voice In The Dark to finish it out, and be done with it. The rest just doesn't do anything at all for me. Granted, it's my first listen. But, I simply can't imagine those ANATO-sounding songs ever growing on me. Anyway, that's my take. Definitely some good {censored} on this album. All in all, much better than their last two albums, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ke2 Posted September 7, 2010 Members Share Posted September 7, 2010 Since the first video is unavailable I like it. Nothing will ever top Nightfall, but it sounds promising.[YOUTUBE]eIZNb96EQJ8[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JacieFB Posted September 8, 2010 Members Share Posted September 8, 2010 I'm digging this one. "Turn The Wheel" off of Twist may be one of the most epic songs ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RiffDaemon Posted September 8, 2010 Members Share Posted September 8, 2010 Granted, it's my first listen. But, I simply can't imagine those ANATO-sounding songs ever growing on me. Anyway, that's my take. Definitely some good {censored} on this album. All in all, much better than their last two albums, imo. Eating my words a bit here. Re-listening to a few of those "bad" ones, and they're growing on me. I think listening to the songs out of context, i.e. alone and away from the speedier tracks that I love, makes them more palatable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members superflyinmonke Posted September 8, 2010 Members Share Posted September 8, 2010 I finally got around to getting it. I will be listening to it soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeadNight Warrior Posted September 8, 2010 Members Share Posted September 8, 2010 Yeah, I got my copy of it a couple of weeks ago or whatever, and I'm pleasantly surprised by it. First listens I wasn't sure about some of it (Ride Into Obsession rocked my balls off right from the start though!), but over time it's grown on me more and more. The ballads are the weaker parts of the album IMO... they're just not as good as their older ballads. Hansi's voice also sounds better than it has the last couple of albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RiffDaemon Posted September 8, 2010 Members Share Posted September 8, 2010 Yeah, I got my copy of it a couple of weeks ago or whatever, and I'm pleasantly surprised by it. First listens I wasn't sure about some of it (Ride Into Obsession rocked my balls off right from the start though!), but over time it's grown on me more and more. The ballads are the weaker parts of the album IMO... they're just not as good as their older ballads. Hansi's voice also sounds better than it has the last couple of albums. Yep, "Ride Into Obsession" is fantastic, and the three tracks preceding it built it up pretty nicely. I love the first half of this disc, along with "A Voice in the Dark" from the later part. Other than the ballad, the second half is growing on me. "Valkyries" has a Bright Eyes / Nightfall [the album] feel in places, and "Control The Divine" sounds better the second and third times through. "War of the Thrones" is just ... I dunno ... just is doing nothing for me after repeated listens. "Wheel of Time" is better, too, after a couple listens, but it was ok the first time anyway. It's just that the orchestra stuff gets in the way and is too much (e.g. during a chorus I'm trying to listen to the vocals, but these damned trumpets keep interrupting).But yes, definitely better than the past two albums. The first half is definitely how I'd want a "modern" Blind Guardian to sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wartoxin Posted September 8, 2010 Members Share Posted September 8, 2010 Kool a power metal thread. I'm not a fan of BG but I'll check out some new songs. What I DO like though is the first of the 2 Savage Circus ones [YOUTUBE]DQRuEGnwcOI[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FalseRevRG Posted September 9, 2010 Members Share Posted September 9, 2010 Wheel of Time = epic as {censored}, I love it. The rest is pretty cool, but I haven't fully absorbed it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Hiryuu Posted September 9, 2010 Members Share Posted September 9, 2010 A Voice in the Dark just put a big {censored}ing grin on my face. The kind you only get when listening to quality power metal. Like the first time I heard Imaginations from the Other Side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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