Description
A 2004 European released box set featuring two cds in a special slipcase
Disc 1: Tales From The Twilight World
Tales From The Twilight World was Blind Guardian’s third album, and the one that broke them to a wider audience in Germany and helped score them a deal with the German division of Virgin Records. It’s no surprise, then, that it was their best-crafted record up to that point, as the band had mastered its fusion of technical speed metal, powerful Judas Priest-esque grooves, and a dramatic, neo-classical feel. Helloween’s Kai Hansen guests on vocals and guitar.
Disc 2: A Night At The Opera
Probably the most adventurous disc of Blind Guardian’s career (and that’s saying something with this troupe), A Night at the Opera lives up to its name by channeling Queen’s most symphonic arias through a dynamic prog metal background that makes Fate’s Warning’s most complex licks seem positively pedestrian in comparison with a glorious production that allows every nuance to literally explode from the loudspeakers. As ambitious as this disc is, however, it is similarly difficult to digest. Everything is over the top to the nth degree; every refrain is bolstered with a chorus lifted to the heavens; every song is an overwrought epic overture of garish calls to Valhalla; every moment is a grandiose concerto. By the time you hit the bonus track “Mies del Dolor,” the only moment of the disc where Blind Guardian lightens up even a little, the band must be exhausted. No doubt, the listener will be too.
Track listing:
Disc 1: Tales From The Twilight World
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 Hall
7. Tommyknockers
8. Altair 4
9. The Last Candle
10. Run For The Night-live
Disc 2: A Night At The Opera
1. Precious Jerusalem
2. Battlefield
3. Under The Ice
4. Sadly Sings Destiny
5. The Maiden And The Minstrel Knight
6. Wait For An Answer
7. The Soulforged
8. Age Of False Innocence
9. Punishment Divine
10. And Then There Was Silence