Blind Guardian

If they're not a big fan or if they find extreme vocals a little bit daunting, I would say listen to this track.

I might say it's a Blind Guardian cover just to trick them, but...

In all seriousness, though, I think that this probably is one of the most accessible songs on the album.

And so I think that it would be a good place to start for somebody who had never heard the band before.

So let's get into it.

We're gonna start, uh, before we get into some doom and death and black metal, we're gonna start with a couple power metal songs, Sonata Arctica and Blind Guardian.

Yeah, both of them have songs about the harvest.

Uh, from Blind Guardian, we're hear- we're gonna hear Harvest of Sorrow from Nightfall in Middle Earth, their sixth album, released on Virgin Records back in '98.

And starting off tonight from Finland, Sonata Arctica, their fifth album, Unia.

That one was released by Nuclear Blast Records back in 2007, and we're gonna hear a song called The Harvest.

Harvest of sorrow, your seed has grown, in a frozen world full of cries.

When the ray of light breaks, shall cold winter nights begin.

Certainly matches up with the programming of B&M, and it's called Black Knight.

I don't have a story behind it other than the fact that when I was interviewing Hansi from Blind Guardian, I got him to read a liner for the station so we could play on air.

And he was reading it before I recorded, and he's like, oh, yeah, Black Knight, because we had been talking about Deep Purple earlier.

That's really the only story I have.

You're going to get the Retrowave, but you'll also get Dungeon Synth and Dark Ambient and Berlin School right after B&M is off air tonight.

So I mentioned Persuader.

Their album, The Fiction Maze, was one of those albums that scratched the itch for wanting something heavier from Blind Guardian, but you weren't getting at the time.

Now, since The God Machine, they've kind of, I guess you could argue, righted the ship, but I think it's more a case of just stripping the sound down a little more and not being afraid to pick up the tempo, which is what many of us have wanted for years.

Of course, Sting is a master of the lute.

Why wouldn't he be? But on that Blind Guardian style lute sound, like there's a piper in the courtyard playing that so this guy's in his cold cell and i can see it and i can feel it and that's that's a rare thing and that that's a perfect example of that uh talking about clive burr when i said that nico was was the missing piece i'm talking about the missing piece of that classic whatever the chemistry right chemistry you know this brian chemistry in a band is everything and whatever clive was doing or wasn't doing and nico was a much more progressive drummer which led them to where they went to yeah i think simon um dawson plays a lot more like clive

He does because, you know, we've had this discussion, you know, when he first came out, I was kind of underwhelmed.

But, you know, you mentioned talk to Lars because Lars said some good things about him.

It had the songs A Love Idea and also the theme song for Last Exit to Brooklyn.

In 1990, German power metal band Blind Guardian released their third studio album called Tales from the Twilight World.

This was released in Germany itself.

It did not do a whole lot of successful runs on the international commercial charts, but it is very influential in the underground speed metal scene.

Yee-haw.

All right, so the Night Eternal, getting back to the German metal here, they've supported some major players in the power metal world like Blind Guardian and Michael Schenker, and they've played with the old school Nawabumbam Angel Witch.

So they've been out there.

They're doing it.

get that vibe of the original music without it being a rip-off, of course.

I had several songs in mind when trying to get the vibe, partly classics like Bard's song by Blind Guardian, obviously, but more like trying to get a... story about okay he's talking about the stuff that will be much more apparent in the second part because the edge of eternity is pretty much the lyrics is about how the guru of time have seen that what time travel and like what these otherworldly powers can do to humanity and like what they...

Because when you get to the end of time, you also get to learn magic.

And he even says when you learn magic that, like, yeah, magic is also what destroyed the world, so be careful.