BLIND GUARDIAN — Follow the Blind (review)

BLIND GUARDIAN — Follow the Blind album cover Album · 1989 · Speed Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Time Signature
Fast to madness...

Genre: power metal, thrash/speed metal

"Follow the Blind" is rearely metioned when people discuss their favorite Blind Guardian albums, but I actually think it is a very good power metal album. One of the things I like about it is that it combines the melody and epicness of German power metal with the speed of thrash metal, much like Helloween in their early days, but with more consistency to the texture of the music. And them of course, Hansi Kursch has a quite unique folksy voice, which suits the whose concept of Blind guardian quite well.

Most of the tracks have plenty of catchy twin guitar melodies and catchy and melodic sing-along choruses as in the case of the melodic chorus of "Banished from Sancturary", the soccer fan chorus of "Damned for All Time", and "Valhalla" which also features Kai Hansen on vocals.

The style and sound on this album is rawer than on subsequent Blind Guardian releases, but I think it works very well, and I quite like the raw and fast style of early German power metal, which is displayed on this album. It is power metal, and it is epic, but the thrash/speed metal influences create a sense of balance which prevents the effort from capsizing into "the seas of cheese" (than you, Primus).

I think that this album will appeal to fans of power metal, speed metal and traditional metal alike. Certainly, if you're a fan of German metal in general, your life will be incomplete without this album in your collection.
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