{"id":96952,"date":"2019-11-14T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=96952"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T06:04:14","slug":"review-blind-guardian-legacy-of-the-dark-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/review-blind-guardian-legacy-of-the-dark-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Blind Guardian – Legacy of the Dark Lands<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In which Blind Guardian<\/strong> fully succumbs to their nerdery and writes a fantasy opera.<\/p>\n

I’ve been listening to\u00a0Blind Guardian for almost as long as I’ve been listening to metal. Their 2010 classic\u00a0At the Edge of Time<\/em> was a portal to a realm of music I hadn’t even fathomed up until then, wherein a mighty orchestra could play alongside a metal band and not only keep pace, but even outshine the metal parts at times. It changed my perception of what metal could be and has shaped my listening ever since. All this is to say that I’m a pretty big fan of the band, and I was excited to hear what they could do with a purely orchestral album.<\/p>\n

I have good news and bad news.<\/p>\n

The good news is that this is undeniably a Blind Guardian album. Despite the lack of a drum kit and electric guitars,\u00a0Legacy of the Dark Lands<\/em> has that sound that is distinctly theirs. Hansi’s signature growl plays no small part in this, of course, but it’s more than that; the melodic progressions, the timing of the accents, and the placement of the choirs will all feel very familiar to BG stalwarts. It’s as bombastic and powerful as one would expect from the band; combined with the inter-song skits and the fact that it’s essentially the soundtrack to a fantasy novel (Markus Heitz’s The Dark Lands<\/span>), on paper it sounds like this would be another (albeit non-metal)\u00a0Nightfall in Middle-Earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n