Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth review (2024)

Katatronik
Angel of Lust

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear,
and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Grey_Dandelion

04.07.2007 - 22:03

Piro

Aylee_Bodom
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Ellrohir
Heaven Knight

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My rest seems now calm and deep
Finally I got my dead man sleep

Piro

Have you read the silmarillion?

And what about "The Curse of Feanor". Did you like that song?
I've just recently listened to this album again, because I was writing a review for another site, and I have to say, I like it even more now.

15.08.2007 - 09:55

Blind__Earth

Yeah, NIME is an amazing album, but it's even far more interesting when you read the silmarilion and you understand the meaning of the lyrics.
I just don't like the guitars, especially the rythm, sometimes it's not enough present. It should have been accentuated, for my opinion.

Still I can't find a chorus that was not good... Nightfall is so great! And Thorn!!! Thorn is not that great, but when you arrive to the chorus, you can't say anything but : sh*t, this is f*cken epic!!
The interludes can be annoying, of course, but think : War Of Wrath is their opening on shows! Everytime!
So Blind Guardian's Nightfall On MIddle Earth is an exceptionnal album, and it doesn't deserve at all the 2/10 that aguirre put, cause the orginality is worth a 10, the songwriting a 9, performance 9, and production 7 (because of the guitars)

Angel Of Mercy

I honestly couldn't understand where this fits in with the book.

Help please?

Valentin B
Iconoclast

Written by Angel Of Mercy on 12.05.2010 at 16:03

I honestly couldn't understand where this fits in with the book.

Help please?

it's about the Silmarillion. read the first chapters at least and you'll clearly have the lyrics to some of the songs in mind.

Angel Of Mercy

Written by Valentin B on 12.05.2010 at 16:38

Written by Angel Of Mercy on 12.05.2010 at 16:03

I honestly couldn't understand where this fits in with the book.

Help please?

it's about the Silmarillion. read the first chapters at least and you'll clearly have the lyrics to some of the songs in mind.

I know it's about the Silmarillion, I've read the first chapter but clearly the album doesn't start from there. Where does it start from?

Valentin B
Iconoclast

Written by Angel Of Mercy on 12.05.2010 at 17:01

Written by Valentin B on 12.05.2010 at 16:38

Written by Angel Of Mercy on 12.05.2010 at 16:03

I honestly couldn't understand where this fits in with the book.

Help please?

it's about the Silmarillion. read the first chapters at least and you'll clearly have the lyrics to some of the songs in mind.

I know it's about the Silmarillion, I've read the first chapter but clearly the album doesn't start from there. Where does it start from?

if you haven't read the first few chapters then i'd say this might be a spoiler so read at your own caution, the first track is a narration between Sauron and Morgoth at the ending battle of the War of Wrath done by the Valar, and the actual album starts from the moment that Ungoliant and Morgoth stole the silmarils and drained those two trees, the dialogues are between Ungoliant and Morgoth, the bigass spider trying to eat all the silmarils, and the chorus is about the Noldor who decide to "follow the will of the one, through the dark age and into the storm" in order to get the silmarils back.

Lammoth is when Ungoliant bites Morgoth on the icy northern shore of Middle Earth, and the rest of the interludes aren't really part of the story afaik, after the track Nightfall they stop following the storyline, they just tell of random stuff happening in the book.

i noticed i haven't yet rated this album. it truly deserves a 10. BY FAR Blind Guardian's best album, and imo one of the best albums i've ever heard. absolutely mindblowingly epic, insanely catchy, beyond emotional and complex as f*ck.

Angel Of Mercy

Valentin B
Iconoclast

Written by Angel Of Mercy on 12.05.2010 at 17:22

Oh ok, I thought it was an album about the ENTIRE events of The Silmirillion. Glad too see I am wrong.

sh*t, the whole Silmarillion would need 3-4 albums like this one for complete coverage haha

Angel Of Mercy

Written by Valentin B on 12.05.2010 at 17:33

Written by Angel Of Mercy on 12.05.2010 at 17:22

Oh ok, I thought it was an album about the ENTIRE events of The Silmirillion. Glad too see I am wrong.

sh*t, the whole Silmarillion would need 3-4 albums like this one for complete coverage haha

True,true. I haven't read the book (I just started it) and the first chapter is driving me insane. I don't get it at all.

Good to see BG can understand it though xD

12.09.2010 - 02:14

Anriii

This is the album that got me not only into Blind Guardian but into power metal as whole. Thus it got me into speed metal (as I had to listen all albums of this awesome band). Which in turn got me into Thrash metal, which then helped me to understand Death metal better.

Could be that I am metal only thanks to this album.

26.07.2011 - 03:17

BlankFile

It´s an ambitious release. Really well structured and creative. One of the best releases by BG, for sure.

"Mirror, Mirror on the wall..."