Vain Glory Opera [Import, Extra tracks]

Edguy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Extra tracks
• Label: Jvc Japan
• ASIN: B00000DB1D
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #786,784 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture

2. Until We Rise Again

3. How Many Miles

4. Scarlet Rose

5. Out Of Control

6. Vain Glory Opera

7. Fairytale

8. Walk On Fighting

9. Tomorrow

10. No More Foolin'

11. Hymn

12. But Here I Am

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Metal at the Greatest, November 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Vain Glory Opera (Audio CD)

"The inofficial but until now only true successor of Helloween's 'Keeper Of The 7 Keys' - milestones whose success Helloween couldn't achieve again after recognizing that they were at a commercial dead-end." So far the latest prereview of EDGUY's "Kindom Of Madness" published in the German 'Evil Message Magazine'. But it would be very unfair to call those 4 guys from Fulda (Germany) a simple "Helloween-copy". With their ability to write catchy songs which will stick to the listener's ears, the 4 guys (average age: 18 years!) have already got something what many musicians will never achieve.

At the latest after listening to the 18-minute track "The Kingdom" which deals with the Inquisition and the suffering and burning of many innocent people, the slightest rise of critique is mortified. It's hard to imagine that 18-years old greenhorns would be capable of writing such a song. "The Kingdom" does not act boring or tiring, because it lives from fast, harmonized lead lines and also from expressive and emotional lead vocals.

The icing on the cake was the co-operation with "True Metal" defender Chris Boltendahl, vocalist of Grave Digger. Altogether the song provides a contrastive atmosphere, romantic on the one hand, medieval and gruesome on the other. Those bombastic songs should drive Metalfans crazy.

EDGUY are a refreshing young band who don't trim their sails to the wind and follow the roots of sounds that were topical in their kindergarten days. EDGUY wanted to use these already existing stylistic elements which have impressed them since the days of their predecessors and to give the sum of those elements something unique by using mainly elements of an extreme form : driving power and anthem-like melodies.

Some words of Tobias Sammet / Edguy (singer, bass player & main songwriter):

"Right, all you enthusiastic or flabbergasted listeners. Call us Old Metal, True Metal, Soft Metal, Rock or Pop band. We can live with all these names. We make the music about whose supposed death (Metal-) journalists have already cracked their brains and haven't found a result yet, music that will make some people happy, others may be slandering about it. Some tracks on "Kingdom Of Madness" might be compared to what some people call 'Teutonic Melodic Metal of the 80s'. We know that we haven't developed a new revolutionary style but our songs come straight from the heart - the honest way. We make good songs with some great melodies and such songs will always live, also in other music genres than Metal."

There is nothing more to add, only that I am very much convinced, the band will make their way because who of us was so self-confident like these guys do in their age to follow their aim so consequently? At least not me!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good!, July 3, 2002

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Gergellor (Supimpalāndia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vain Glory Opera (Audio CD)

This is the kind of album that none of the tracks are filler material, nor will make you bored. The real gem in EDGUY is the singer. He sounds as a mix of Dickinson, Kiske, Halford and Tate. Amazing!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Their Best Album-A shame to give it les than 5 stars!, February 9, 2002

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Theobalt (Ioannina, Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vain Glory Opera (Audio CD)

I read that a guy didn't like the song "Vain Glory Opera" because it reminded him of a Europe's song. Isn't this prejudism or what? Indeed the introduction is similar to the final countdown but the song has its own identity. As well as the album. It is probably the best album of Edguy second maybe only to Sammet's only other creation Avantasia part I. Great vocals, combining Dickinson, Defeis and Kiske, speedy solos, and suberb chorus. You will not regret purchasing this album.