Track Listing
1. Traveller in time 2. Welcome to dying 3. Weird dreams 4. Lord of the rings 5. Goodbye my friend 6. Lost in the twilight gall 7. Tommyknockers 8. Altair 4 9. The last candle Year: 1990 Label: EMI - Official Site |
Blind Guardian - 'Tales from the twilight world' - By J. Korkiam�ki
Blind Guardian�s previous album Follow The Blind improved the Blind Guardian sound a lot compared to the little hastily produced and boring debut Battalions Of Fear from the year 1988. Maybe one of the most important attractions of the album was Germany�s heavy metal legend Kai Hansen, who did not only play a couple of leads on the album, but also sang on the album. Kai has also lended his talent for Tales From The Twilight World, and in the best song of the album, "Lost In The Twilight Hall", everyone can relax once again and listen to the powerful singing of the fantastic duet Hansi/Kai. So, that�s about it on that subject, now�s the time to see what is good about Tales From The Twilight World and what improvement has the band made to keep the flame of Guardian alive. I can declare already, that this is once again a fantastic album. Twilight World begins with a... hmm, neat, but a little disturbing to the ears kind of song, "Traveler In Time", which is based on the science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert. The real enthusiasm begins with "Welcome To Dying", which is the first proof that the choruses on the album have clearly been improved from the ones on Follow The Blind, although that too had a few outstanding, powerful choruses, like in "Valhalla" and "Banish From Sanctuary", only this time they have more sentences than just one or two. Besides "Welcome To Dying", there are also a couple of songs that especially should give the "swing effect", like the mentioned best song of the album "Lost In The Twilight Hall", the great "Lord Of The Rings" (a theme they�ve used a lot during the years), the threateningly slow "Altair 4", "Tommyknockers" from Guardian�s Stephen King department and "The Last Candle", although I�m a bit annoyed by the "guardian, guardian, guardian of the blind" chant in the intro, and that maybe because I didn�t like the original song, which was on the debut. Tales From The Twilight World is definitely one of Blind Guardian�s best albums, also for the known fact that it was the final breakthrough of getting Blind Guardian�s career on an uphill streak. Of course Follow The Blind wasn�t a bad album, on the contrary, but being released as the infamous "second album", you think of it as a replacement of some kind for the debut�s dull outcome. Twilight World on the other hand is a fully independent album, that pretty much beats up both of its predecessors. You could mosh your head off through small hours listening to this. Metal Obsessive Grade: 93% |