Emerald Sword [Single]

Rhapsody | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Lmp
• ASIN: B00002S82S
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #421,156 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Emerald Sword

2. Where Dragons Fly

3. Land of Immortals [Remake]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for one song, July 18, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Emerald Sword (Audio CD)

This single contains material that already appears on Rhapsody's album "Symphony of Enchanted Lands". However, there is one song on here that does NOT appear on the full album: Where Dragons Fly. This song alone is worth the purchase of this single! This is probably the most beautiful song that Rhapsody has ever written and played, and has a very deep "midieval" feel to it. It's too bad that this song does not appear on any full Rhapsody album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, as usual, April 16, 2001

By 

Samuel Rotta Castilla (Lima, Peru) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Emerald Sword (Audio CD)

If you're familiarized with Rhapsody's work, you won't find surprises in this cd. "Emeral Sword" and the remake of "Land of Immortals" (previously released on "Legendary Tales") show the best of this band: fast and virtuous guitars, a strong but melodic rhytmic frame and the powerful voice of Lione. "Where Dragons Fly" exposes a more soft side of the band, but without letting go the virtuosity and ability to take the listener to the worlds that the song describes. Lyrically, you won't find nothing new beyond the eternal fight between good and evil, poetically stressed. It is more of the same; but who cares when you are taken to a world of fantasy in every song?, how many bands are able to achieve that goal?

If you don't know this band, but you have listened to, for example, Yngwiee Malmsteen or Helloween, for sure you'll like Rhapsody.

Finally, don't forget to check out the album that this single precedes (Symphony of Enchanted Lands).

4.0 out of 5 stars One song and a remake..., July 17, 2007

By 

Kenneth Olsen "The Firelord" (Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emerald Sword (Audio CD)

Im a fan of this band. They deliver the goods if you're into "fantasy-metal" If you dont care much about wizards, demons, and so on stay away. If you like massive symphonic metal with big choirs you're right on the spot here. The fact that this single is almost impossible to find makes it worth craving for. The remake of "land of immortals" is to me worth it all and the "were dragons fly" adds to the nessessities to own this one....