Tales From the Twilight World

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Blind Guardian

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"Tales from the twilight world" is truly Blind Guardian's best work so far. I believe the album to be the peak of their song writing. Never has a Blind Guardian album had more melody than this album has. Every song is packed with double-bass drum and hard guitar riffs. The lyrics are great, and the choruses give the album even more melody. The guitar leads are placed in the songs in perfect places, making fluid transitions. And with all of the hard elements, fast melodies, and great lyrics, each of the album's tracks is different and great. My favorite song from it is.. well, honestly, all of them are favorites, and no, i am not exaggerating. This album is a MUST HAVE for any metal fan.

The only thing keeping Blind Guardian from being the biggest metal band is redundancy. Tales is a good example of what happens when a great band writes mediocre songs. To the albums credit, it is more straight forward, and has less vocal overdubs than A Night at the Opera, but lacks in the good song writing and dynamics. The musicainship is great,but the album is flat, and typical. No songs stand out and you have basically heard it all after the first two.If you not a BG fan, skip this one and get Demons and Wizards. A side project between BG and Iced Earth, It is more dynamic and memorable.