Tag Archives: Blind Guardian

Feature: GRTR!@20 Anniversary – Metal – Primer

Posted on November 21, 2022 by GRTR! HQ
GRTR!@20 Anniversary – Metal – Primer

During the period 2003-2023 metal had morphed into various guises.  Brian McGowan tries to keep up with it and surveys the period… Heavy Metal is a musical phenomenon that continues to gain in strength and popularity, worldwide. It has the … Continue reading →

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Album review: AYREON UNIVERSE – The Best of Ayreon Live

Posted on March 26, 2018 by jason
AYREON UNIVERSE – The Best of Ayreon Live

Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group [30.03.18] Ayreon are masterminded by Arjen Anthony Lucassen, who prefers to create music in the studio rather than appear live and the announcement that Ayreon would play two shows in September 2017  (their first official … Continue reading →

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Album review: BLIND GUARDIAN – Re-issues

Posted on November 19, 2017 by jason

Battalions Of Fear/Follow Me Blind/Tales From The Twilight World/Somewhere Far Beyond/Tokyo Tales’/Imaginations From The Other Side/The Forgotten Tales (compilation)/Nightfall In Middle Earth/A Night At The Opera/Live Nuclear Blast [Release date 27.10.17] German power metal band Blind Guardian have produced some … Continue reading →

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Album review: ORDEN OGAN – The Book of Ogan

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Phil Berisford
ORDEN OGAN – The Book of Ogan

AFM Records [Release date 25.03.16] “The Book of Ogan” would appear to be German power metal band Orden Ogan’s way of closing the first chapter of their career as it is a very impressive double CD double DVD package. What … Continue reading →

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Album review: ORDEN OGAN – Ravenhead

Posted on December 23, 2014 by jason
Orden Ogan - Ravenhead

AFM Records [Released 12.01.15] This is the band’s fifth album and hopefully after an impressive back catalogue, along with this enjoyable new release, they will start to get a bigger following. They will appeal to fans of power and progressive … Continue reading →

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Album review: SINBREED – Shadows

Posted on March 25, 2014 by jason

AFM Records [Released 14.04.14] Sinbreed is a new band to me but Blind Guardian is not and both guitarist Marcus Siepen and drummer Frederik Ehmke have their day job there. Shadows is the follow up to 2010’s debut When Worlds … Continue reading →

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Album review: IRON SAVIOR – Rise Of The Hero

Posted on February 20, 2014 by jason

AFM Records www.afmrecords.de There is a fair number of German metal bands that have a direct link to Helloween in one form or another. Iron Savior were founded by ex-Helloween man Kai Hansen, then Blind Guardian drummer Thomen Stauch and … Continue reading →

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