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Emerald Sword

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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.

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).

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....

Emerald Sword is the CD single from Rhapsody's album Symphony of Enchanted Lands. The single contains just three tracks: the standard album version of Emerald Sword, an alternate version of Land of Immortals, and an all-new track called Where Dragons Fly.

I already had the full-length album, so I essentially purchased this single for just one song. Where Dragons Fly is a good song, though a bit more tranquil than the rest of the tracks on Symphony of Enchanted Lands. Still, Rhapsody was in fine form for that album, and this studio track is worth the price of the import single.

If you're a Rhapsody fan, you're going to want to own this single. Sure it's a lot to pay for just one new song, but the song is actually good enough to be worth the money.

Three happy little songs sure can do amazing things to one's sanity. If the stupid grin you'll have after listening to these songs does somehow wear off, you'll know magic is real.