BLIND GUARDIAN — Imaginations From the Other Side (review)

BLIND GUARDIAN — Imaginations From the Other Side album cover Album · 1995 · Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
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Blind Guardian’s fifth album, Imaginations From the Other Side, has the Germans picking up pretty much where the prior Somewhere Far Beyond left off and that, in all honesty, is the best thing Blind Guardian could have done after the power metal masterpiece that was Somewhere Far Beyond. When a band has something that good going for them I really don’t see why they’d want to change it, and that’s exactly what happens here, following pretty much the same sort of structure as before which is a bunch of power metal anthems of the kind they’d made us listeners accustomed to by this stage, topped off by Hansi Kürsch’s amazing voice, but also slowing back to show their soft side with a folk ballad, A Past and Future Secret.

Imaginations From the Other Side is one of those albums where a band doesn’t really break any new ground but are so good at what they do that they are able to follow one masterpiece with another. Perhaps it's even because of following a similar pattern that the album ends up this good. It’s very much a tough call which is the better album between this and Somewhere Far Beyond (Tales From the Twilight World can get a look in too) but between them they are, for me, some of power metal’s most defining moments, and I think this one just about takes it. Blind Guardian started to change a bit after this one, and while it is ultimately good that they’ve kept a fresh take on their power metal with their following albums, they’re yet to match the same level of consistency they showed between 1990 – 1995.
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Tupan wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Yep, great album indeed. Some of the best chorus ever made by a metal band!

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