Blind Guardian polarize over the Red Mirror

If a music group, no matter what, to bring out a new album, then there is in advance Always the two very famous questions: Does the new album really something new, and if so, the new album is then as good as the old albums, or is it might even be better? Here is a band always comes in the notorious double bind situation, because if the new songs sound as or similar, as the old, it is common: The new songs are not really anything new or anything special! Blade the title but completely new, then it is often said that the new title does not come close to the old, or that the album is not quite as good as the earlier stuff.

So, or something like that, it seems to have become even with the new Blind Guardian album Beyond The Red Mirror, because the fans that it is a Imaginations On The Other Side, a Bards song, or a Time Stands Still by the brilliant Nightfall -in-Middle-Earth album expected, are likely to be disappointed because the new songs just sound completely different. Also all those who are just as likely to be disappointed, the 2002 their difficulties with the chosen orchestral direction of the band since A-Night-At-The-Opera album or generally can not do anything with such music. And even those who want to always packed the same thing just different, will surely make also very long faces when they listen this album for the first time, because Blind Guardian offer with Beyond The Red Mirror really something completely new, but without their famous neglecting trademarks.

So whoever of Blind Guardian a new album expected that all strengths of this great band together in a completely new look, and who is able to engage primarily on new, and also open for other musical genres, but especially those who take the time takes to let go through this album more than once to the partial but very complex arrangements of the two masterminds Hansi Kürsch and André Olbrich to lead to the ear, which will be very surprised at what a masterpiece the band from Krefeld here with Beyond the Red Mirror have delivered from the first to the last note.

I wish to highlight a single title. The album is the title, and the seventy minutes, is good.