Blind Guardian is one of those niche bands that are respected and looked upon by the fanbase of that specific genre. In Blind Guardian’s case is the metal community with all of their subgenres. The german band fits into the power metal, symphonic metal, and speed metal subgenres. In addition to the music genre fanbase, Blind Guardian gets the love from another passionate fanbase: geeks and nerds. A great part of their work is based upon the nordic culture and the work of geniuses of the likes of Stephen King and J. R.R. Tolkien (Lord of The Rings trilogy, Silmarillion, The Hobbit and his whole Middle-earth universe), videogames, books and suchlikes. The band was first named The Lucifer’s Heritage and was heavely speed metal and closer to thrash metal. The name changed to Blind Guardian in 1988 and launched their first album Battalions of Fear that same year. This first work is almost labled as thrash metal close to the also German Helloween. The band raised to success with a hange of style and making songs with an epic style, more melodic metal hugely influenced by celtic culture and having literary fantasy as a subject. To this day Blind Guardian is the go to band when the topic is power metal.
Blind Guardian’s album Somewhere Far Beyond
Blind Guardian isone of those bands that you won’t be enjoying enough by listening only to the songs.You must listen to the whole albuns. Maybe, in this case, it’s worth taking a look at Somewhere Far Beyond, Imaginations From the Other Side and Nightfall in Middle-Earth.
Blind Guardian’s inspirations in Somewhere Far Beyond
The album in itself is based mostly in Stephen King’s novel series The Dark Tower. However, the album contains songs about many other universes like Bade runner, Twin Peaks and J.R.R.Toliken’sThe Hobbit. The song posted intothe playlist lightly references The Hobbit, for instance.
Thissong reveals my personal history as a metal head, that used to play guitar in a heavy metal band and was a huge fan of symphonic metal like Avantasia and Blind Guardian. This song is one of those times that pop into my head from time to time. unannounced
Andas always,the full playlist:
