The sound has its advantages and disadvantages. For orchestral elements, it is excellent mixed, unfortunately this is not always true to the band's music itself. So is (though rarely) the singer from the chorus almost swallowed and the sound of drums acts unfortunately continuously washed out relatively strong, which is quite a shame for the solid performance of the drummer sometimes. On the other hand, at least the virtuoso guitar solos's occur uncommonly voices to the fore. The bottom line is I feel the sound as quite worthy, albeit with the proviso that up still plenty of air would have been left to be filled in any case.
Conclusion for sound:
Not wanting to buy this disc only for the sound or even demonizing, I think definitely exaggerated, even though there would certainly have been possible.
But now for the music itself:
Taken in three words I would say complex, bombastic, Stimmig! To discuss this a bit; I think in terms of complexity, nevertheless steady catchiness of the songs impressive. Although the song did not really open up with the first one, two runs, round and harmonious but they sound right away. Only a bit disturbing are the here and there interspersed la la la passages that a bit too cheerful (or Delight Metal Size) come for my personal taste over. But the playfulness and the truly magnificent Can Blind Guardian's have a look over it well away, the strong guitar solos's, the virtuosic singing and clever sound writing with his seemingly inexhaustible tempo changes makes just plain fun. You can tell the troops that this album is not itself copied Age project, but that she still holds an enormous hunger and having fun at what she does.
Conclusion of music:
Enthusiasm, skill and experience everything a permanent presence and packaged in bombastic complex songwriting. The truly create not many bands with such a long history.
The bottom line is to say:
BUY! CLEARLY! Who complains about the overall product and consistently warns against the album, can either perceive and understand that it is neither understandable nor felt by the normal-mortal consumers music on such a high level, or ... he simply and simply have no idea of - or no sense of this kind of music.
