"Mandrake" and especially "Theater of Salvation" had set the bar very high but it does qu'exploser all the levels we offered the speed for two decades (ie the "Keepers of the Seven Keys").
From the intro of "Mysteria", we are caught up in this whirlwind of power and enjoyment alliange subtle melody and aggression qu'Edguy will never manage to reproduce thereafter.
Anthological riffs dot this first song sung by a very acute Tobias Sammet absolutely divine and whose unhealthy break almost as much as it surprises us sticking a huge slap.
But the result will only be higher, like the incredible "The Piper Never Dies", ten minutes long, making us into the depths of creation and hard rock depicting a world in constant osmosis.
The arms and ears of musicians fall when I speak of the doublet "We Do not Need a Hero" and "Down to the Devil."
On the first, there was first the pleasurable power, the speed, the feeling of hovering above all, qu'Edguy anyway is far ahead of the other, they are far from everything. And this solo !!!!! This superposition of a guitar solo (Jens size solis is magnificent throughout the album) and a battery light and Felix Bohnke unbridled imperial.
When the second, he is simply the piece with one of the best choruses that Tobi ever composed, powerful and incoming head so easily that it is impossible to get rid of.
Then the cheerful German unpack a directory bordering on genius almost one ten, from the splendid orchestral and "The Spirit Will Remains" the uncompromising "Under the Moon" through the hard rockien "Navigator" or fun but nevertheless very difficult to sing "Lavatory Love Machine".
Edguy was summun his career, and if the following opus reserve beautiful moments, Hellfire Club is a piece of history ... all by himself. Not owning this album will return to what Tobias chanting "You are the King of Fools" !!!