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2/11/2009

Blind Guardian - "Tales from the Twilight World" (1990)



I've really been getting into German Power Metal titans Blind Guardian this week. I've listened to Somewhere Far Beyond (1992), Nightfall in Middle-Earth (1998), A Twist in the Myth (2006), but I'm in fucking in love with Tales from the Twilight World (1990).

Blind Guardian, specifically lead singer Hansi Kürsch, are OBSESSED with Tolkien, Moorcock and Stephen King. One of the songs on Tales from the Twilight World is about Dune, and one is even called "Tommyknockers"... awesome. Hansi is also a huge Freddie Mercury fan, using hundreds of vocal overdub tracks to create massive fantasy metal choirs of himself. It's pretty god-damn epic.

Someone here in Dallas should want to start a power metal band with me. I'd like it to all be based on the Book of the New Sun. I'll play bass.
- posted by Mason @ 5:54 PM
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