BLIND GUARDIAN — Tales From the Twilight World (review)

BLIND GUARDIAN — Tales From the Twilight World album cover Album · 1990 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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Genre: power metal, speed/thrash metal

As with the previous album, "Tales from the Twilight World" successfully blends the epicness of power metal with the rawness of thrash metal, drawing on both melody and speed.

There are plenty of melodic parts such as catchy choruses that often invite the listener to sing along, and melodic guitar parts. The opening track "Traveler in Time" is basically a streaight speed/power metal track with a rather epic opening that just about avoids being cheesy. This also applies to "Guardian of the Blind" Blind Guardian are obviously very good at just balancing their epicness right. We see that, or rather hear that, in most of the songs on this album.

While essentially a straight speed/power metal album, "Tales from the Twilight World" does contain inklings of the more progressively inclined style that Blind Guardian would later adopt as evident in the acoursting interludes and acoustic parts that appear in some of the songs.

Power metal fans should appreciate this album, and I think that some fans of speed and thrash metal might also like it, because Blind Guardian manage to keep the power metal cheesiness at a minimum.
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