r/blindguardian

I’m a leathercraft hobbyist and needed a new belt, of course had to take the opportunity to rep my favorite band. Probably about 14-15 hours of work all told.

I don't know how other BG fans feel about this one overall, but I thought this was a truly amazing album, even by BG's standards. It's got some of their all-time best songs, and really shows how even after forty years, BG are still as great as ever.

Which makes it hard as hell to pick my top five songs, but here they are, in no order:

• Deliver Us From Evil
• Blood of the Elves
• Destiny
• Life Beyond the Spheres
• Damnation

Honourable mention to Let It Be No More

Another difficult challenge, heh. Rest assured, it’s just as difficult for me as it is for you.

Here are my picks in no order:

The Bard’s Song (Forest)

Somewhere Far Beyond

Ashes to Ashes

The Bard’s Song (Hobbit)

The Quest for Tanelorn

This one is often ranked as one of BG's top-tier albums; Loudwire and Metal Hammer both ranked it in their top 3 power metal albums of all time. This album's quality is impossible to doubt. So if you had to pick its top 5 tracks, which ones make the cut?

Here are my top 5, in no order:

• Mordred's Song
• Born in a Mourning Hall
• Bright Eyes
• A Past and Future Secret
• And the Story Ends

For my part, this is one of my favourite Blind Guardian albums. Some of the very first BG songs I ever heard came from this album, and it's chock-full of great songs.

Picking just five is a hell of a task, is what I'm saying, but for what it's worth, here are my top 5 in no order:

• Turn the Page
• Carry the Blessed Home
• Lionheart
• Skalds and Shadows
• The New Order

Honourable mention to Straight Through the Mirror, Fly, The Edge, This Will Never End, and Otherland

The bond between Blind Guardian and the „Sacred“ universe remains and we teamed up with the band so they can join the world of our upcoming 16-bit RPG: “Sacred: Last Pixel of Ancaria” as NPCs.

For those of you who wish to follow the project’s journey, there will be a chance of getting a special Blind Guardian Kickstarter reward when supporting this project, and it’s already available for Steam wishlisting!

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sparklingbit/sacred-last-pixel-of-ancaria
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4092130/Sacred_Last_Pixel_of_Ancaria/

Hey there! We are a podcast devoted to discussing the discographies of our favorite metal bands.

We're doing a mini-season of albums we loved in our youth but haven’t listened to in decades, and today we dive into "Nightfall in Middle-Earth"

Spoiler- we loved this album. As a kid, I never truly appreciated the intricacies and sheer technical prowess.

Hope you'll listen and share some memories you have of this album!