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Blind Guardian

Германия

Power Metal
Symphonic Metal

http://www.blind-guardian.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/blindguardian
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18 мар 2025 :
13 янв 2025 :	BLIND GUARDIAN Share Video Of "The Bard's Song" Live At Wacken Open Air 2024
24 дек 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN Share The God Machine Tour 2024 Official Aftermovie
9 дек 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN Share New Revamped Video For Cover Of SLADE's "Merry Xmas Everybody"
29 ноя 2024 :
15 ноя 2024 :
2 ноя 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN - "Ashes To Ashes" (Revisited) Official Lyric Video Available
21 окт 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN - "The Quest for Tanelorn" (Revisited) Official Lyric Video Available
7 окт 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN - "Theatre Of Pain" (Revisited) Official Lyric Video Available
28 сен 2024 :
16 сен 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN Performs “Valhalla” Live At Dong Open Air; Pro-Shot Footage Streaming
7 сен 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN - "Time What Is Time" (Revisited) Official Lyric Video Available
24 авг 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN Share "Time What Is Time" Vocal Recording Session For Somewhere Far Beyond Revisited (Video)
8 авг 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN Share Wacken Open Air 2024 Recap Video
5 авг 2024 :	HANSI KÜRSCH: New BLIND GUARDIAN Music 'Is Not Too Far Away'
2 авг 2024 :
12 июл 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN Release "Ashes To Ashes" (Revisited) Single + Official Live Video Filmed At Hellfest 2022
7 июн 2024 :
6 июн 2024 :	HANSI KÜRSCH Expects Next BLIND GUARDIAN Album To Be 'Heavy And Aggressive'
14 май 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN Guitarist MARCUS SIEPEN Unveils Signature Model Solar Guitar
21 апр 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN Share Recap Video Of The God Machine Tour 2024 London Show
15 фев 2024 :	BLIND GUARDIAN - Fan-Filmed Video Of Entire 70000 Tons Of Metal Cruise 2024 Pool Deck Set Streaming
6 фев 2024 :	HANSI KÜRSCH: 'I Would Be Very Surprised' If There Was No New BLIND GUARDIAN Album Before 2027
5 фев 2024 :	HANSI KÜRSCH: BLIND GUARDIAN Will Start With 'Real Songwriting' For Next Studio Album In 2025
30 окт 2023 :	BLIND GUARDIAN - Fan-Filmed Video Of Entire Barcelona Show Streaming
16 авг 2023 :	HANSI KÜRSCH Explains Why No Members Of BLIND GUARDIAN Have Tattoos

7 мар 2013

BLIND GUARDIAN’s Hansi Kürsch On Sold Out Box Set A Traveler’s Guide To Space And Time - "This Can Be Considered A Success And There Will Be No Reissues"

Germany's BLIND GUARDIAN recently released A Traveler’s Guide To Space And Time, a strictly limited edition box set with 15 CDs in 13 high quality digipacks, limited to only 8,000 copies worldwide. Italy's SpazioRock has issued a new interview with singer Hansi Kürsch, in which he discusses the set. An excerpt from the interview follows:
Q: Your fans’ dream came true: A Traveller's Guide To Space And Time is officially out. 8,000 copies only: how many of them are left in stock?

A: "As far as I know, there are no copies left on stock. I believe they’re all sold, but you can still order on Amazon. I am not sure how long this will take, until they will be completely sold out. I would guess the last copies will be sold in the next four or five weeks. All in all, this can be considered a success and there will be no reissues. So everyone who got his own copy should be happy."

Q: I have to inform you that I have a copy of this wonderful “guide”. The design is superb, all reminds us the ancient times, the fantasy world and the Middle Age: why did you decide to release this boxset after the best of?

A: "It was an agreement we had with the label: they asked us for the “best of” and then this compilation. We really had the time to focus on A Traveller’s Guide, which means we have been able to spend the first three months focusing completely on it . And later on, we just had to decide how to finalize it, it took us more than twelve months to complete, but it was worth the toll."

I have to notice only one problem for this box: why the decision to take off the booklets with the lyrics?

At first, it was a matter of weight, then a matter of capacity, because if it had the booklets with the lyrics as well, I wouldn’t say it was a problem with the budget, but it would have been hard to design a box with even the booklets. My idea was to add the lyrics to the big book that was included in the box. But even there the space was an issue and we would have had only four extra pages and it was impossible to add all the lyrics in a few pages. We had to skip that idea, but I didn’t realize that could be a problem for people, I realized it later, when the box was released.

The pictures in the box are awesome! You looked like anyone other guy who had fun in making music...

Oh yeah, especially at the very beginning, when you usually don’t take things too seriously. You just enjoy life, as you can see in the pictures but we have always been ambitious, you can see that as well!

“Nightfall In Middle Earth” without the instrumental songs is quite strange. I don’t know the fans’ opinion, but I prefer the original version: it’s more atmospheric. Which version do you prefer?

I agree with you: it wasn’t my intention to release this “Nightfall - Special Edition”, but we had a lot of complaints over the years from fans who loved “Nightfall”, but who struggled with the interludes and so on. This is a favour to them and I hope they’ll be happy with it.

How the orchestral album will sound like? I need to know something you haven’t told anyone yet! I need a real scoop!

Oh well, the album is progressing very quickly and it’s progressing in the right direction. Each day, though, we find something to adjust. It will be a concept based on a fantasy story and we have plenty of material, in order to release a Part 1 and a Part 2. I would love to say that we need other 24 months to have everything completed. I am not sure when we will release it, I have a good feeling that it might be in 2015.

You said that the second “Blind Guardian Fest” depends on this orchestral project. Why?

Because the opportunities to present this orchestral album in a proper live situation would be very few. We need the right environment and the right situation, that festival would be the right chance to do so. And we would like to do a proper three days festival, with two Blind Guardian concerts in a row, with the band performing with an orchestra.

Can you tell me something about the concept of the next album?

There’s no concept so far, we’re collecting the songs and drum recordings for some of the songs. It will be a very natural-sounding album, but it will be a complex album, no doubt about it. The quality of the sound will be like our last two, three albums and it will give you an insight of how the orchestral album will sound like.

All right. What about the lyrics? Will you write something based on G.R.R. Martin or Tolkien?

Maybe Martin, I don’t think Tolkien. It’s still a difficult issue to decide the direction of the lyrics, because I need a stronger picture of the album, I need a good amount of songs. There might be two or three songs related to historical issues...

Do you like “A Game Of Thrones”?

Yeah, I like it a lot, and so the TV series. I have just watched the first season and I think it’s very close to the story in the book.

Read the complete interview at this location.

Looking back over Blind Guardian’s career from the here and now in 2013, you see a success story gone global, the likes of which very few other German metal bands have ever experienced. This band from Krefeld has been just about everywhere, conquering the North American market in the same way as they stormed the charts in Asia or packed concert venues in South America and even South Africa. From their (at that point purely) German beginnings with debut album Battalions of Fear (1988), followed by their first international recognition with the second album Follow the Blind (1989) and the euphoria which went round the world when Tales from the Twilight World (1990) and Somewhere Far Beyond (1992) came out, right through to their masterpiece of composition in A Night at the Opera (2002), the name of the band developed to become an unmistakable world brand. There are lots of reasons for this, but no doubt much of it is down to the extraordinary skill of everyone involved, their virtuoso dexterity and that gift for bringing mystical themes in tune with unusually complex metal directives. Something else which really makes Blind Guardian stand out is the way they have always kept so close to their fans. Even more proof of their unconditional commitment to the huge fan-base is being released now; A Traveler’s Guide to Space and Time, a strictly limited edition deluxe box set with a total of 15 CDs in 13 high quality digipacks, which the musicians and the record company have been working on together for almost a year. A particularly long time to create a compilation you may think, but a glance at just how much this box set encompasses explains why their conscientious and time-consuming preparation took so long.
A Traveler’s Guide to Space and Time not only includes all the albums released during the so-called Virgin years (the record company brought out all the bands’ records between 1988 and 2004) but also all their previously unreleased demo recordings, rare bonus tracks and alternative versions of famous pieces from this era, and all of them have been remastered and some even remixed. To be precise; it includes the seven studio albums Battalions of Fear, Follow the Blind, Tales from the Twilight World, Somewhere Far Beyond, Imaginations from the Other Side, Nightfall in Middle-Earth and A Night at the Opera, and on top of all that you get the live albums Tokyo Tales and Live as well as The Forgotten Tales compilation, all of them now with 2012 mastering and some of them with new mixes. Above and beyond that, Blind Guardian have dug deep into their archives and come up with some real treats: in Imaginations Through the Looking Glass for the very first time the phenomenal concert they put on in Coburg, Germany in June 2003 appears in audio format on two CDs. And another first, in a special edition of Nightfall in Middle-Earth, the musicians also present the legendary 1998 studio album without any breaks (including a new mix of “Blood Tears”). This precious box is rounded off with An Extraordinary Tale, which includes so far unreleased demo versions of the pieces 'Welcome to Dying', 'Lord of the Rings', 'The Bard’s Song (In the Forest)', 'The Bard’s Song (The Hobbit)', 'Theatre of Pain', 'Trial by Fire' and 'I’m Alive' and the never before released, around 90 seconds longer version of the song 'The Quest for Tanelorn' as well as the comparatively rare number “Harvest of Sorrow”.

So, there is so much to find, enjoy and rediscover in this outright opulent deluxe box which is accompanied by a 20 page glossy booklet (size: 27cm x 27cm) containing comments from the members of the band and more than 100 rare and mainly unpublished photos belonging to the musicians. A limited edition and numbered Blind Guardian art print on special paper (sized 27cm by 27cm) and a guitar plectrum engraved with the band’s logo have also been added to the box. Blind Guardian are rightly proud of this glorious package. “With A Traveler’s Guide to Space and Time we document how much has Blind Guardian developed between 1988 and 2004 in, as I see it, a particularly impressive and vivid way,” explains singer/bassist Hansi Kürsch who, together with original members André Olbrich and Marcus Siepen, still controls the destiny of this amazing group. Kürsch adds: “The brand new mastering also makes sure that all 15 CDs are on the same level as far as the dynamics are concerned so theoretically you can listen to the whole box at one go, without having to adjust the volume level at all.”

Of course this jam-packed compilation also includes all the compositional climaxes and milestones along Blind Guardian’s career path; 'Majesty' from their debut album Battalions of Fear was the first time the band presented their unusual song writing combined with the boundless energy which still makes Blind Guardian stand out so much today. 'Traveler in Time' from Tales from the Twilight World then puts the band’s epic approach into focus. 'The Bard’s Song' has developed into a real classic, creating that perfect symbiosis between band and audience at concert after concert and reinforcing the folklore element within the typical Blind Guardian sound.

Of course, in this box, Blind Guardian also present the sublime title track from the album Imaginations from the Other Side with its capable mixture of anthemic power metal and progressive directives, as well as the downright cinematic number 'Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)' from the album Nightfall in Middle-Earth. The experts reckon the fantastic 'And Then There Was Silence' from A Night at the Opera was the icing on the cake of those Virgin years and you can hear it in all its glory on A Traveler’s Guide to Space and Time.

With A Traveler’s Guide to Space and Time Blind Guardian stay true to their reputation of not doing anything only halfway. As always with this band you get the full-on thing, on both the composition and technical production sides. This box is also full of rare photos from the musicians’ private collections as well as previously unreleased demo recordings, once again documenting how far this group will go to give their fans the best possible product. And as Hansi Kürsch put it: “We poured our heart and soul into A Traveler’s Guide to Space and Time making it a well worthwhile box for our fans which fully meets the demands we make of ourselves as well as those of our fans. And that is exactly what we were aiming for.”
Tracklisting for A Traveler’s Guide to Space and Time (15 CD Set)

Disc 1- Battalions of Fear (Digitally Remastered 2012)
'Majesty'
'Guardian of the Blind'
'Trial by the Archon'
'Wizard’s Crown'
'Run for the Night'
'The Martyr'
'Battalions of Fear'
'By the Gates of Moria'
'Gandalf’s Rebirth (New 2013 Mix)

Disc 2 – Follow the Blind (Digitally Remastered 2012)
'Inquisition'
'Banish from Sanctuary'
'Damned for All Time'
'Follow the Blind'
'Hall of the King'
'Fast to Madness'
'Beyond the Ice'
'Valhalla'
'Don’t Break the Circle'
'Barbara Ann

Disc 3 – Tales from the Twilight World (Digitally Remastered 2012 & New Mix 2012)
'Traveler in Time'
'Welcome to Dying'
'Weird Dreams'
'Lord of the Rings'
'Goodbye My Friend'
'Lost in the Twilight Hall'
'Tommyknockers'
'Altair 4'
'The Last Candle'
'Run for the Night (Live)

Disc 4 – Somewhere Far Beyond (Digitally Remastered 2012 & New Mix 2012)
'Time What Is Time'
'Journey Through the Dark'
'Black Chamber'
'Theatre of Pain'
'The Quest for Tanelorn'
'Ashes to Ashes'
'The Bard’s Song (In the Forest)'
'The Bard’s Song (The Hobbit)'
'The Piper’s Calling'
'Somewhere Far Beyond'
'Spread Your Wings'
'Trial by Fire'
'Theatre of Pain

Disc 5 – Tokyo Tales (Original 1993 Mix, Digitally Remastered 2012)
'Inquisition'
'Banish from Sanctuary'
'Journey Through the Dark'
'Traveler in Time'
'The Quest for Tanelorn'
'Goodbye My Friend'
'Time What Is Time' 'Majesty'
'Valhalla' 'Welcome to Dying'
'Lost in the Twilight Hall'
'Barbara Ann'

Disc 6 – Imaginations from the Other Side (Digitally Remastered 2012 & New Mix 2012)
'Imaginations from the Other Side'
'I’m Alive'
'A Past and Future Secret' '
The Script for My Requiem'
'Mordred’s Song'
'Born in a Mourning Hall'
'Bright Eyes'
'Another Holy War'
'And the Story Ends'

Disc 7 – The Forgotten Tales (Original Mixes Digitally Remastered 2012)
'Mr. Sandman'
'Surfin’ USA'
'Bright Eyes'
'Lord of the Rings'
'The Wizard'
'Spread Your Wings'
'Mordred’s Song'
'Black Chamber'
'The Bard’s Song (In the Forest)'
'Barbara Ann'
'A Past and Future Secret'
'To France'
'Theatre of Pain'

Disc 8 – Nightfall in Middle-Earth (Digitally Remastered 2012 & New Mix 2012)
'War of Wrath'
'Into the Storm '
'Lammoth'
'Nightfall'
'The Minstrel'
'The Curse of Feanor'
'Captured'
'Blood Tears'
'Mirror Mirror'
'Face the Truth'
'Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)'
'Battle of Sudden Flames'
'Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)'
'The Dark Elf'
'Thorn'
'The Eldar'
'Nom the Wise'
'When Sorrow Sang'
'Out on the Water'
'The Steadfast''
'Dark Passage'
'Final Chapter (Thus Ends)'

Disc 9 – A Night at the Opera (Digitally Remastered 2012 & New Mix 2012)
'Precious Jerusalem'
'Battlefield' '
Under the Ice'
'Sadly Sings Destiny'
'The Maiden and the Minstrel Knight'
'Wait for an Answer'
'The Soulforged'
'Age of False Innocence'
'Punishment Divine'
'And Then There Was Silence'

Live (Digitally Remastered 2012)
Disc 10
'War of Wrath'
'Into the Storm'
'Welcome to Dying'
'Nightfall'
'The Script for My Requiem'
'Harvest of Sorrow'
'The Soulforged'
'Valhalla' 'Majesty'
'Mordred’s Song'
'Born in a Mourning Hall''

Disc 11
'Under the Ice'
'Bright Eyes'
'Punishment Divine'
'The Bard’s Song (In the Forest)'
'Imaginations from the Other Side'
'Lost in the Twilight Hall'
'A Past and Future Secret'
'Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)'
'Journey Through the Dark'
'Lord of the Rings'
'Mirror Mirror

Imaginations Through the Looking Glass – Live in Coburg, 2003 (for first time on CD – digitally remastered 2012)
Disc 12

'War of Wrath'
'Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)'
'Banish from Sanctuary'
'Nightfall'
'The Script for My Requiem'
'Valhalla'
'A Past and Future Secret'
'Punishment Divine'
'Mordred’s Song'
'The Last Candle

Disc 13
'Bright Eyes'
'Lord of the Rings'
'I’m Alive'
'Another Holy War'
'And Then There Was Silence'
'Somewhere Far Beyond'
'The Bard’s Song (In the Forest)'
'Imaginations from the Other Side'
'And the Story Ends'
'Mirror Mirror

Disc 14 – Nightfall in Middle-Earth – Special Edition (Digitally Remastered 2012 & New Mix 2012)
'Into the Storm'
'Nightfall'
'The Curse of Feanor'
'Blood Tears (new vocal mix 2012)'
'Mirror Mirror' 'Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)'
'Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)'
'Thorn' 'The Eldar'
'When Sorrow Sang'
'A Dark Passage'

Disc 15 – An Extraordinary Tale (Live Rarities & Demos – Digitally Remastered 2012)
'Welcome to Dying (Demo)'
'Lord of the Rings (Demo)'
'The Bard’s Song (In the Forest) (Demo)'
'The Bard’s Song (The Hobbit) (Demo)'
'Theatre of Pain (Demo)'
'Trial by Fire (Demo)'
'The Quest for Tanelorn (unreleased extended version)'
'Harvest of Sorrow (rare version)'
I’m Alive (Demo)
An eight minute preview of the package is available below:

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7 мар 2013

ein schwein

Охота что-нибудь в духе последнего альбома, или Ночи в опере.

7 мар 2013

Dimson1976

Уж лучше тогда Ночь в опере, это последняя работа Стражей, которую можно слушать целиком. Далее пошли альбомы, с абсолютно не запоминающимися серенькими песнями. Грустно.(( И ужу не очень верится, что выйдет что-то стоящее.....Но кто знает, а вдруг.

7 мар 2013

artmageddon

че то сомсем не хочется слушать этот бокс, пытался начать, но сразу хотелось включить оригинал. Последний альбом был супер! Надеюсь новый будет в таком духе, на альбом в духе 95 года и не надеюсь)

7 мар 2013

Nakedman

Последний был действительно неплох, да и Twist in the Myth говном язык не поворачивается назвать, но вот часто возвращаться к ним совершенно не хочется. Так что тут соглашусь с Димсономцифрами про "Оперу", которую можно слушать целиком и при этом получать неподдельное удовольствие.

7 мар 2013

Blaсkw1ngеd

Тоже плюсуюсь к коментам про ночь в опере. Классный был диск, жаль после него не такие яркие альбомы пошли.

7 мар 2013

ein schwein

Не гоните на поеледний, мне он почти больше всех из дискографии нравится. Раз 200 переслушал, может вам его тоже малец "пообкатывать"?

7 мар 2013

MeatWolf

Ричард из The Unguided тоже сказал, что "копий больше нет в продаже". Никто в магазин Бласта не заходит, что ли?
http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/products/tontraeger/cd/cd-boxset/blind-guardian-a-traveler-s-guide-to-space-and-time.html
Бери не хочу.

7 мар 2013

Nakedman

Ну так нужно же ажиотаж подогревать. :)

7 мар 2013

Blindman

дык его, видать, на опте нет, а в магазинах пока есть. Но опять же, никто из них не пишет, сколько там копий осталось. Самвер звучит любопытно, кое что еще лучше, что-то хуже. Еще б последний нормально сделать по звучанию...

8 мар 2013

Loretta

плюсану по поводу ночи в опере. Один из лучших их дисков...

8 мар 2013

Nakedman

Ох, забавно вспоминать, что в 2002 "Оперу" только ленивый не пинал.

8 мар 2013

Loretta

2 Nakedman
А разве сейчас что-то изменилось?

8 мар 2013

Dimson1976

2 MetaBorg
Достаточно много раз обкатывал последний релиз, но так и не проникся. Пытался извлечь хоть что-то стоящее....так как ранние альбомы тоже втыкали не всегда с первого прослушивания...Но после многократных прослушиваний последнего сделал вывод, что ни одной песенки оттуда я бы не вставил в свой BEST OF BG....И возвращаттся к прослушке того диска больше не хочется, время можно потратить на более приятные работы коллектива....

По поводу Оперы, ну да, помню, что хаяли тот альбомчик по началу, просто никто не знал ещё тогда, что это последнее такое сильное творение (на сегодняшний день)....И потом, к Опере тогда поменялся подход поклонников в лучшую сторону в связи с их первым приездом в Россию. Тогда как раз в поддержку того альбома как бы турне было. И помню, что многие люди перед концертом судачили, мол трудно представить, как песенки с того альбома будут звучать на концерте. Но при грамотной подаче, при хорошем выборе песен в сет лист, все прошло просто обалденно. даже с тухлым звуком, концерт был ураганным тогда в Дружбе. И Оперу стали слушать и покупать чаще.

8 мар 2013

Nakedman

" И помню, что многие люди перед концертом судачили, мол трудно представить, как песенки с того альбома будут звучать на концерте. Но при грамотной подаче, при хорошем выборе песен в сет лист, все прошло просто обалденно. даже с тухлым звуком, концерт был ураганным тогда в Дружбе"

О да, так всё и было.

2 Loretta
Сейчас, как мне кажется, стало попросту модным любить и лелеять Оперу. Хотя может народ и правда вслушался потихоньку. Да и за пршедшие десять с лишним лет Блайнды несколько раз успели обрасти новыми слоями поклонников. :)

9 мар 2013

Loretta

>>>.И потом, к Опере тогда поменялся подход поклонников в лучшую сторону в связи с их первым приездом в Россию.
Я б душу тогда продала за этот концерт))

>>>Хотя может народ и правда вслушался потихоньку.
Лучше поздно. Но, черт возьми, если б ее приняли тогда по-другому, возможно, два следующих альбома вышли бы совсем другими... а теперь ничего не вернуть.

9 мар 2013

Blindman

>>Я б душу тогда продала за этот концерт))

Лучше уж за выступление на Малой Арене, в Дружбе было просто хорошо, а вот на малой было отлично - это было и, видимо, останеццо лучшим их концертом в России несмотря на всякие косяки с терактами, бомбой и прочей фигней....

Еще года через четыре будут говорить, что и At The Edge хороший, ничего ровным счетом не меняется, все начиная с имаджинейшен идет по кругу

9 мар 2013

Arseniy

Я готов говорить о нём в таком духе уже сейчас. :-)

9 мар 2013

Loretta

>>>Лучше уж за выступление на Малой Арене
И за него тоже, я первый раз попала на БГ только в 2007м((

>>> что и At The Edge хороший
так вроде и сейчас так говорят...

2 сен 2013

N-K-A

Новый альбом аж в 2015? Долго. Но если работа того стоит, то подождём.