Post Reply - The Great Collection Rediscovery

Album: Somewhere Far Beyond

Old Rating: 5/5

Verdict: My favourite Blind Guardian album. Didn't used to be, Imaginations From the Other Side was, but this worked it's way up over time. It's more polished than Tales From the Twilight World and the original speed metal sound almost completely shed away by this point, but it's so fast and aggressive as hell that as much as I love other power metal it makes me wonder why most bands are missing the trick in that regard and serving to regulate the genre to one that many self-defined tr00 (accurate spelling) metalheads readily dismiss while moshing to their trash metal (also accurate spelling). True story from my YouTube days when first discovering Blind Guardian.

New Rating: 10/5