Search - Blind Guardian :: Nightfall in Middle Earth

An absolute masterpiece!!

zsinj16 | Ill, USA | 07/05/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Okay, I'll admit it! When I first bought this Metal CD, I was a bit reluctant to listen to it because I'm not that much of a metal fan, I thought that all metal bands were a bunch of screaming yahoos and had filthy and obscene lyrics in their songs. When I listened to this album, boy was I ever wrong! This heavy metal album isn't just any heavy metal album, it's an epic fantasy metal album, and this epic fantasy metal album is based on one of the greatest fantasy sagas of all time, "The LOTR Saga". It is based on the first novel in the LOTR saga called "The Silmarillion" , and man, dies Blind Guardian ever do a good job of interpreting this novel through their songs!! My favorite songs on the album are "Nightfall" (in which you can clearly visualize the lament of the Noldor elves), "Time Stands Still at the Iron Hill" (which excellently depicts the epic battle between the Dark Lord Morgoth and Fingolfin), and "A Dark Passage", which I like to call "Smash Down the Light!" which clearly expresses Morgoth's rage and dark desire to pour out his revenge upon the forces of the Light! I must recommend this album to all fantasy and heavy metal bands alike! Definitely buy this album! Oh, and if your a bit like I was and don't like metal, and think this is just a typical metal album with obscene lyrics and screaming so loud and ugly that you can't understand a word of the song, don't worry, Blind Guardian doesn't do this type of stuff, and when there IS screaming, it's there to express a character's lament or rage in "The Silmarillion"."