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Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth (2006) [Limited Digipak DCD Edition] RE-UPLOAD

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Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth (2006) [Limited Digipak DCD Edition] RE-UPLOAD

Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth (2 CD)
APE+CUE+LOG or MP3 CBR 320 | 87:28 min | Covers | DATA | 562 or 161 MB

A Twist in the Myth is the eighth studio album by the German progressive power metal band Blind Guardian. It was originally set to be released on September 5, 2006 in Europe (which became the North American release date), but Nuclear Blast changed the release date to September 1, 2006.
The album was released in several different formats: a normal version, a digipak version with a bonus track and bonus CD, and a limited edition book-version.

Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth (2006) [Limited Digipak DCD Edition] RE-UPLOAD

Blind Guardian fans have grown accustomed to waiting long periods between the band's studio albums, which these masters of German progressive power metal tend to deliver only every four years or so – much like World Cups, curiously enough. That was precisely the gap separating 2002's A Night at the Opera, which dismayed some longtime fans with its nearly symphonic, unusually complicated compositions, and 2006's A Twist in the Myth, which establishes something of a middle ground between that trend and the group's slightly more approachable earlier material. Of course Blind Guardian, by any era or definition, can still be counted on to inject enough pretentious pomp into high-flying metal anthems such as "This Will Never End", "Straight Through the Mirror", and especially album standout "Turn the Page", to make Ronnie James Dio pull out his fantasy almanac, get Freddie Mercury nodding in posthumous approval. Speaking of ol' Mercury, "Carry the Blessed Home" marries Queen-sized guitar and vocal orchestrations to BG singer Hansi Kürsch's recurring extrapolations on Stephen King's Dark Tower novels; and his reading habits are given even further disclosure on the likes of "Otherland" (inspired by Tad Williams' novels by the same name) and the Celtic myth-inspired "Skalds and Shadows". In fact, it's hardly surprising to find just one song – the psycho-analytical "Another Stranger Me" – that might actually be (emphasis on "might") entirely based on real-world experience, not that the band's fans would have it any other way. And whether fans want to nitpick and argue over minor changes in direction, the fact is that A Twist in the Myth is tailor made for the everyman Blind Guardian supporter. Now if they can only hang in there until the next World Cup rolls around.

~ Eduardo Rivadavia, all media guide
Tracklist - CD 1:

01. This Will Never End
02. Otherland
03. Turn The Page
04. Fly
05. Carry The Blessed Home
06. Another Stranger Me
07. Straight Through The Mirror
08. Lionheart
09. Skalds And Shadows
10. The Edge
11. The New Order
12. Dead Sound Of Misery [Digipak Bonus Track]

All lyrics written by Hansi Kürsch
all music written by Olbrich and Kürsch


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Tracklist - CD 2:

01. Interview [German]
02. Interview [English]
03. DATA [Blind Guardian Media Player]
a) Another Stranger Me [Music Video]
b) Making Of Another Stranger Me
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Produced by Charlie Bauerfeind & Blind Guardian
Engineered by Charlie Bauerfeind & Jan Rubach
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered at Twilight Hall Studios, Germany from September 2005 to April 2006
Mixed and Mastered by Charlie Bauerfeind

01. This Will Never End is inspired by Walter Moers' A Wild Ride Through the Night

02. Otherland is based on Tad Williams' Otherland series of novels

03. Turn The Page contains references to Wicca, as well as renewal and the change of seasons

04. Fly contains references to Peter Pan and was inspired by the film Finding Neverland

05. Carry The Blessed Home is about Roland the Gunslinger and Jake Chambers at the end of Stephen King's Dark Tower series

06. Another Stranger Me portrays the mind of a person with multiple personalities who becomes aware of his other self. It draws inspiration from The Drawing of the Three, book two of Stephen King's Dark Tower series

07. Straight Through The Mirror tells how dreams can change very quickly - it's about the importance of dreams in general too. Some claim it's about a person describing the experience and process of dying while in reality this person is just dreaming it all

08. Lionheart is about Roland the Gunslinger tracing Jake Chambers through a man-made labyrinth in the city of Lud and then into the sewers in order to rescue the boy from Gasher and his leader, the Tick-Tock Man. It uses metaphor of Ulysses and travel to Hades

09. Skalds And Shadows is about the tales of Old Norse Skalds

10. The Edge is about St. Paul and his version of Christ

11. The New Order deals with the necessity of changes

12. Dead Sound Of Misery is an alternative, darker remix of "Fly" about the Whore of Babylon


• Hansi Kürsch – lead vocals
• André Olbrich - lead guitars
• Marcus Siepen – rhythm guitar
• Frederik Ehmke – drums, percussion, flute and bagpipes

additional musicians:
- Oliver Holzwarth – bass guitar
- The Choir Company - Olaf Senkbeil, Rolf Köhler, Thomas Hackmann
- Martin G. Meyer and Pat Benzner – keyboards

Release Date: September 1, 2006
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Nuclear Blast
Catalog No.: NB 1515-0


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