Nightfall in Middle Earth [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Blind Guardian | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 2, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Emd Int'l
• ASIN: B00000896M
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #603,406 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. War of Wrath

2. Into the Storm

3. Nightfall

4. The Minstrel

5. The Curse of Feanor

6. Blood Tears

7. Mirror Mirror

8. Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)

9. Battle of Sudden Flame

10. Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)

11. Thorn

12. The Eldar

13. Nom the Wise

14. When Sorrow Sang

15. Out on the Water

16. A Dark Passage

17. Final Chapter (Thus Ends...)

Editorial Reviews

Original press of legendary power/speed metal album by one of the most popular bands of the genre and one of Germany's greatest metal bands of all time.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST epic midevil metal band. Terrific album., July 2, 2001

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Xerofall "xerofall" (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nightfall in Middle Earth (Audio CD)

I have listened to this album about seventeen times since I bought it a few days ago. It is the best album on epic power midevil metal I've heard. Rhapsody comes in second, but they aren't as serious as Blind Guardian. This album is a concept album, like Rhapsody's three. It's based on a Tolkin novel. It has all the elements of quality metal, good speed, as well as terrific vocals. Then it has great midevil sounding music, like player flutes and minstral guitars. Very different... if your into just speed metal then get Iced Earth or old Metallica, but if you like epic story telling and fantasy movie like soundtracks then these types of bands are for you. I can't say enough about this band. They are just quality midevil metal. If you like Dream Theater's music and classic Queensryche's story telling and Iron Maiden's metal, then you'll like these guys.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute masterpiece!!, July 5, 2001

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"zsinj16" (Ill, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nightfall in Middle Earth (Audio CD)

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".

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whoa, epic midevil storytelling., June 27, 2001

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Xerofall "xerofall" (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nightfall in Middle Earth (Audio CD)

If you don't know who Blind Guardian is then this isn't the album for you. If you like metal and epic storytelling from midevil times like J.R.R. Tolkien and D&D then this is right up your alley. More of a story concept type album than a rock album like their other ones. I just discovered this type of music after being sick of american metal and its fading quality. Metallica is dead, these guys and bands like Angel Dust, Rhapsody, Kamelot and Iced Earth have taken the reigns of metal and continued on where american artists have sold out. I look forward to buying their other albums.