THE band that got me into metal - none other than the fantasy geeks: Blind Guardian.

THE album that made me even more ashamed I love a band that wanks over Lord of the Rings: A Twist in the Myth. At least I still have all my Forgotten Realms Drizzt books.

In previous albums, singer Hansi Kursch aggressive tone was a great asset, or even in classics like ‘The Bard’s Song’, his voice was natural in the sense that you could taste him sitting around a campfire in the middle of a forest in the middle of…middle-earth. Tastes like red-bull.

Unfortunately, The band’s taken a turn for the worse, heading more in the epic-symphonic metal sort of direction. Recently, Thomas Stauch, Blind Guardian’s ex-drummer from the band’s inception till A Night at the Opera has left them for ‘musical differences’.
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