Lens really good, but I miss the last kick

Still, I have to say that my new BLIND GUARDIAN album at all objective quality simply is little and I, when I'm by BLIND GUARDIAN, always reach for classics like Somewhere Far Beyond. Of course, I am not so naive to think that the band again so einspielt an album that finally even musicians change, and in the case of BLIND GUARDIAN, this is a shame, because the band could make full use of their strengths, especially in this phase. BEYOND THE RED MIRROR personally just do not Rousing which eg Somewhere Far Beyond for over 20 years so distinguished for me, but seems a bit too artificial and constructed.

Objectively, it indicates BEYOND THE RED MIRROR little to complain about. BLIND GUARDIAN have now created a completely unique style and can hardly be compared with any other band. At compositional skill and quality is not lacking the album certainly, and in comparison to its predecessors, the band goes again somewhat understandable, catchy to work.

However, subjectively this album blows me away still not particularly order. Somehow it seems overloaded and clogged up with too many ideas, and I think to myself again and again that this would be a quite classic case of less is more was. Stuck really is little to me about this album in certainly 20 runs. In addition, one thinks always in the good moments of the album, that this has been simply heard better by BLIND GUARDIAN.

In this respect, BEYOND THE RED MIRROR evaluation makes me anything but easy. Basically make BLIND GUARDIAN here much good and right, and they also show that they are stylistically now no ifs and buts are simply a class of its own, comparisons to other bands fall hard. Even compared to the sometimes something very strenuous predecessors the band has corrected its course as I find positive. But somehow, I note that BEYOND THE RED MIRROR despite all the somehow not really ignites me. Something is missing to me, perhaps because it acts to overload anything at all sophistication.

For fans of the well-established in recent years BLIND GUARDIAN Stiles or hardcore fans of the band as such, I would give 5 points for myself, I ended up with 3 stars.

Mediating I therefore interesting, at 4 stars. The album is definitely good, even if lacking for me the kick who like BLIND GUARDIAN hereby not go wrong, at least, and I'm quite sure it will delight many fans of Krefeld.