3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Good Stuff Here!, February 2, 2006
This review is from: Live in Canada 2005: The Dark Secret (Bonus Dvd) (Audio CD)
This is a very good live album! All the songs sound really really good. The setlist is not the best, but it works well.
I wish the dvd had the whole entire Live In Canada concert on it... That would have been a lot better, but it only has a few previews of the shows.
If your a fan of Rhapsody, or a fan of POWER METAL in general, you should pick this up, and give it a listen.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Could have had a longer and better set, February 9, 2006
This review is from: Live in Canada 2005: The Dark Secret (Bonus Dvd) (Audio CD)
I'm giving this three and a half stars actually.
I don't feel I'm getting much more with the bonus DVD, other than finding out I'm going to be spending more on the upcoming live DVD (!). I don't find much use for the additional audio version of the concert on DVD.
Complaints first. Such a short set. Only nine songs actually, not counting the intro `The dark secret' and the `Gran finale.'
The selection is not great. They put relatively boring stuff like `Village of the dwarves' instead of something like `Holy thunderforce' or `Rain of a thousand flames.'
I'm not the biggest fan of the album `The dark secret' either, so to see three of the nine songs coming from there, wasn't very cool. Or they could have put `Never forgotten heroes' if they really wanted a `Dark secret' song.
You can barely hear the bass guitar in the mix, so there's always that lack when listening to it.
For live concerts, I prefer huge arena-sounding drums with a real deep end and strong reverb for the snare, but the snare in this CD is alright. The bass drum however could have been mixed a bit more.
I'm glad the CD contained `Wisdom of the kings' and `Emerald sword' at least. And Rhapsody is always a tight band, at least from what I'm heard from a bootleg.
So there. There could have been more songs, and less `trudge' songs like `Village of the dwarves.' They could have put a lot more goodies on this CD. I hope the DVD lives up to its claim of having plenty of documentaries and stuff. I actually enjoy documentaries and stuff as much if not more than the recorded concerts.
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