WOWOWOWOW! Ex Metal Elitist Reacts to Blind Guardian "Nightfall"
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
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At one point of my musical journey, I would of been considered an Elitist. I just liked what I liked. But as I've gotten older I've realized there's alot of great music out there, and I want to find it! Thank You for bearing with me on the beginning stages of this channel. Feel free to request any song.
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The Curse of Fëanor does an amazing job for me when I need some energy, but my favorite song from this album is "Time stands still (at the iron hill)", this one talks about the fight between Fingolfin and Morgoth.
That whole story is sooooo amazing!
Time Stands Still ❤❤❤
Probably a bit late to be replying, but Fingolfin's fight is one of the most epic moments in the Silmarillion, and Blind Guardian is the only significant band that would make a song about it. It's fantastic and one cannot help but feel respect for the High King of the Noldor.
THe curse of Feanor makes my cry every time i ear the song!!! Simply amazing song.
My favorite on the album might be Thorn just because it emphasizes Hansi's amazing voice and range
Hansi's voice, my gosh! I loved this one. And, I am so glad we are going on a Blind Guardian journey
This song!!!!!
@@TheWolffAndTheMelody No this song: "Mirror Mirror" xD
@johnsmoke1785 as great as that is, for me it's the weakest on the album. A bit too straightforward, but I guess you need the "hit single" 😊
@@punkjay4681 It's just Mirror Mirror is another one of those songs where the audience interaction is very high. The live videos are fun to watch imho.
@johnsmoke1785 sure, it's a great live song and I always sing my lungs out 🙂
This album is an absolute masterpiece, I like it even more than "Imaginations from the other side"...... the choruses are incredible and Andre´s guitar work is astonishing on the whole album......
As a rabid Tolkien nut, Nightfall in Middle-Earth is one of my absolute favourite albums ever. Such an amazing story and such amazing music to go with it. Damn.
Well, I dunno if anyone proposed that, but you DEFINATELY need to check Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green, live version. Hansi's vocals there are insane.
UPVOTE!!!!!!
Love D&W!!!
Ok....you had me at Lord of the Rings. I mentioned being a lifelong D&D player and DM. The game got a lot of its substance from Tolkien, so needless to say, I'm a big fan. This was really cool.
Dudeee hell ya! He inspires me so much!
I discovered Blind Guardian through this album, thanks to being absolutely obsessed with the Silmarillion when I was fifteen. It is superb! And this is probably my favourite song off it, although Time stands still is a close second.
He gleams like a star
And the sound of his horn's
Like a raging storm
Proudly the high lord
Challenges the doom
Lord of slaves he cries
🤘😁🤘
@@thedragon133
slowly in fear
The dark lord appears
Welcome to my lands
You shall be damned
Blind guardian lyrics are so good. Glad to hear they're important to you when you listen. You're going to love this band. They came out with an album with the Twighlight Orchestra and one of my favorite lines is from a song on that album called The Great Ordeal. Of course it's at the peak of the song when chills run down your spine, he says "We come alive in the darkness of evils defeat"... I absolutely love that
Being a metalhead and being a Tolkien fan im amazed you hadnt at least checked this album out (and Blind Guardian in general for that matter). This album is EASILY in my all-time top 5. Funny how a metal band with a few thousand dollars budget can do a better job of bringing Silmarillion to life using music, than Amazon did with a 1 billion dollar budget TV series.
As someone who's constantly disappointed by people who claim to be Tolkien fans but haven't read the Silmarillion, it's amazing to get a band who does not disappoint.
Good choice.👍🏻 Blind Guardian is about to get on stage here in my hometown in about 1 ,5 hours. I’ve been waiting for this 6 months ❤🤘🏻 check out more songs
Such a good start to the album. Nightfall is about the destruction of the trees, the death of the noldorian king, and the original theft of the simarils. It's such a good opening song.
One of the things I always have loved about Vlind Guardian is how well the vocal lines fit in with the instrumentals. Hansi has mentioned that he always focuses on the vocal melodies first and figures out lyrics later, which is what I always assumed caused that phenomenon.
Also Andrew is just a phenomenal guitarist. He always seems to know exactly how much flair and little leads to throw in without it ever disrupting the song.
I hope you like the album! Not sure if you were planning to listen to anymore on RUclips or not, but I'd definitely be interested in your thoughts. Time Stands Still (at the Iron Hill) is probably my favorite -- it's very dynamic and also I've always loved Fingolfin's last stand.
Everything you said I agree! I cant wait to dive all in to this album.
Excited to see someone go further than The Bard's song and Valhalla
Blind Guardian fan my entire life. Pretty sure you're the ONLY reactor to check out nightfall... also if you love the bards song please check out SKALDS AND SHADOWS by blind guardian. keep it going bro 🙏
FOR REAL! Thats insane if thats true I'm the only one. But yea I plan on diving deep into them! I loved the album Somewhere Far Beyond. I just never ventured into other stuff.
@TheWolffAndTheMelody they've got some epic songs & albums for you to catch up on then for sure. & hell yeah Somwhere Far Beyond is one of the best albums ever
Appreciate you doing this without a music video. Blind Guardian is one of the bands, that are not so much about videos. They shine through their music mainly.
I a fan of them since the beginning of the band. Sadly only saw them live once in their early time.
much love friend! I loved this.
That song is a masterpiece - still one of the best metal albums of all time 🤘
Every BG song is clockwork mechanism that includes thousands of gears, pendulums and springs. Every gear turns or shakes with its own speed and direction, but in the end you see the perfect composition.
As the second part of The Dune by Vilneuve has been realeased I suggest you their "Traveler in Time". Not for a show just for yourself.
And that, my friend, is probably my favorite song of all time. haha Or at least, it made good part of my life for many years. From the melody to the narrative - all the harmony of the accompaniment highlighting the guitar leads and placing at 'center stage' all the theatricality, emotion and atmosphere that this band brings -, and everything purely through music. Completely spectacular!
Thanks for this one, dear Cosmic! A truly joyful journey!
From this album my 2 favorites...."Noldor" and "The Eldar"
This album is a masterpiece and probably my favorite power metal album of all time. Hansi's vocal range is incredible and has so much power! I recommend listening to it from start to finish but you absolutely need to hear "Mirror Mirror", but not the music video, the song is edited. 💀🤘
Maybe you should react to the full album? It tells all the stories :)
I discovered Blind Guardian when I was 14 thanks to a friend. I fell in love and I never regretted it! Please, it would be nice to watch you reacting to "Imaginations from the other side", it's the first song I listened back in 1995!
More Blind Guardian please :D one of their best songs. May i suggest a Blind Guardian song that is one of my favourites, an older one - The Last Candle.
Yeah dude! Nightfall in Middle Earth ist one of the best conecpt albums ever. the songs "the curse of feanor", "noldor (dead winter reigns)" and "thorn" have a very sepcial feeling too imo. glad you're enjoying your BG journey. Down for it 🤘
These guys are still killing it too - you should check out something from their last album to see how it stacks up. "Violent Shadows" for a wild ride, "Secrets of the American Gods" for something more epic and soaring, or "Life Beyond the Speres" for a song that gets into your soul with the incredible vibe.
Got this album as a present from a schoolmate, because he found it to soft for his liking. Its one of my favorite albums of this band, a real classic of this band.
And so many good songs on it. Mirror Mirror has a live version on RUclips.
Will listen to this album again tomorrow, its nearly 11pm at my place, so i need to rest now 😅
I was 16 when I first listened to this album back in 1998... Blind Guardian changed my musical taste in many many ways...
Lo de la boca abierta es lo que causa una banda tan grande como BG definitivamente grandisimos estoy orando todas las plegarias para que vengan a colombia sólo han estado una vez.el chico que escribio que siguen arriba por encima de Metallica tiene razón asi me lancen insultos BG . Es lo más exelso que he escuchado en mi vida no se que comen en Alemania pero me les quito el sombrero a todas las bandas que ha parido esta nacion no parecen humanos Turn the page, Time stands still
the iron hill, Blood of the elves Into the storn un viaje folklórico Medieval GRACIAS INFINITAS ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hace poco vinieron a México a un festival y no quise ir a verlos porque quiero verlos solos en un concierto, y se que valdrá la pena la espera
I would give a kidney just to listen this album for the first time again...
HELL YEA!
They made it with so much love and you can feel it at every song 😊
Honestly if you're a Tolkien fan, a full listen to this album is a MUST. It's a masterpiece, I'm the opposite of you; I liked Lord of the Rings, but then I found this album last year and it just propelled me into The Silmarillion and all of Tolkien's other work.
Ya Im going to do an album listen party of this
I'd love for you to do every song on this album. It's iconic and considered by many to be their best album. I would however also recommend you check out their full concert Imaginations Through the Looking Glass. It's absolutlely impeccable.
I'm really considering do a live album listen
Most likely the best BG album ever!
the whole album is a masterpiece
This album is peak storytelling and peak power metal overall. Completely grandiose and still nothing superfluous.
I can't wait to dive all in!
You need to react to "A Past and Future Secret" Live at Wacken from that same concert. It's absolute marvelous!
Sounds amazing!
Your reaction to this is my reaction everytime is listen to this. And its been a couple of hundred times so far. It never ceases to amaze me. Such an immortal piece of music
This whole album is just sooooooo good!
Mirror, Mirror
The Curse of Fëanor
Time Stands Still
The Eldar
Well... pretty much any song is just amazing!
The opening track of this album (Into the Storm) is one of my favorite openers ever. And I LOVE opening tracks.
SAME. They opened some shows with it last year and I was sooo excited for that but when I saw them a few weeks later they opened with something else 😢
In my opinion BG is always better live. I will be on a BG concert next week;) " Traveller in Time" is my favorite song. There is a wacken live Version on RUclips.
Have fun! I know it will be great.
I think there are two live versions online on yt. ruclips.net/video/PrEm8jMC5Q8/видео.html
First thing I did, when I read your comment was check and see where they were playing. Only Europe, sigh. And, here I am stuck in the US. Have a great time!
@@WNYretiree Stuttgart;)
30.09. Lichtenfels🤘
My absolute favorite Blind Guardian album, and it was the first one I bought. What an introduction to an awesome band! !! I can't wait to see where else you Blind Guardian journey takes you. ^whispers^ curse my name ... cuuurrrssse mmyyyy naaaame ^trails off^ 😈😈
Glad you now have "Nightfall" in your life! The piece is glorious, beyond amazing. Truly, this should be the song to introduce BLIND GUARDIAN to a new listener, if we had to pick only one - because beside its melodic prowess, unparalleled sing-along quality/ memorability and the widely known source of lyrical inspiration, it combines both the hard and driven elements of the band's music, complete with their patented guitar sound, AND their tender, Medieval minstrel side to a majestic effect. Heck, I would have "Nightfall" on a short-list of songs to show what is "right" with Metal overall! :))
The whole album, story-telling aspect is through the roof, with Hansi easily outdoing his former self in the multitude of ways of delivering those lines, while the band just never cease pulling out riffs and melodies of overwhelming epicness... For some people, the "hardliners", this album seemed too soft, too extended - they were used to something like a more adventurous form of Power-Thrash from BLIND GUARDIAN, increasingly original, but classifiable nonetheless. THIS was more: an epic story in music, movie of the mind, complete with sound clips and narrative interludes done by actual actors. "Nightfall in Middle-Earth" became the benchmark album, from whence BLIND GUARDIAN was no more "simply" a Power metal band, rather its own, unmistakable entity. Whatever they did next - and you'll find they experimented a lot - this was the sound they could always latch on to, their signature. What is important to note: aside from interludes, which even work out really well when listening to the whole, the album is not short on heavy, speedy and powerful stuff. "Mirror Mirror" is a long-time fan favorite, deservedly so (and you might have heard it, even if unintentionally), but "The Curse of Feanor", "When Sorrow Sang" are also powerful smashers, "A Dark Passage" - a progressive closing epic, while my favorite "Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)" - one of the greatest anthems ever written, crossing into the lands of heroic opera without leaving the realm of Metal! You will have grandiose fun with the entirety of this album, and happy us if you decide to share some of it in future reactions!
Definately check out the edge of time album too
Glad you didn't wait! This is the album I usually put on when I shower. Half of the time because I can cry there without making a mess. 😂
It's so good!
@@TheWolffAndTheMelody I absolutely adore this album. I know you won't regret a second of it either!
I consider them to be apart of the Power metal big 4
Nightwish, Eivør, Avantasia, Heilung and now Blind Guardian - sounds like my playlist! 👌 you could do a crossover reaction with "The raven child" by Avantasia because Hansi sings in there, too 😁
Love that you're doing Guardian. Please consider Wheel of Time or Sacred Worlds if you want their excellent orchestral stuff.
Sacred Worlds is the song that caused me to discover BG, through the video game. I forgive the game for not being that good, because it introduced me to such an excellent band.
This entire album is a journey!
You have stumbled across my favourite BG songs. Keep them coming
Great reaction,i believe you would enjoy listening to the song Fiddler on the Green by Demons and Wizards,a band where Hansi and Jon Schaffer created together.
I will have to check it out.
"an oath we shall swear by the name of the one..."
That was such a great album. Caught the Spirit of the Silmarillion so well - oh so well!
That jaw drop and "awww" when the chorus starts for the first time... I remember hearing this for the first time and I did the same thing. Actually I think I still do it half a million listens later
THANK YOU for covering this album it’s one of the best albums ever made and I love seeing more people realize this!
Gosh what an amazing song!
Yo - check out Time Stands Still (at the Iron Hill) if you like The Silmarillion... it's about the last stand of Fingolfin. Into the storm is also dope...
I mean if you're a tolkien fan, the whole Nightfall in Middle Earth album is a must.
try Coburg 2003 or Wacken 2007!! you will be amazed!!
of this song?
@@TheWolffAndTheMelody yes, you are also this song, but both concerts are amazing! you will see! I became a fan of Blind Guardian, after I received a CD with the concert in Coburg as a gift, from 2003. They caught me with the live performance, because anyone can play well in the studio, but only real bands and singers can be good live...and by the way, nightfall is better live😄😁
I'd love to see you do Imaginations from the Other Side, the title track of the album before this one. Also, my all time favourite And then there was silence. Epic song about Helen of Troy. A real emotional rollercoaster that has very different parts, kinda like an opera. Well, the album is called A Night at the Opera 😊 (named after the Queen album of the same name)
Congratulations on breaking through Valhala/Bard's Song wall on RUclips!
I got a few reactions on here from BG, I've loved diving into them.
I was singing this song along with hansi and crowds in feb Sydney concert. That was awesome!
hope you have been listening this whole masterpiece concept album of all the time I'm not exaggerating when i saying it which it's pretty odd because people used to think blind guardian switch it up their previous "raw" and speed sound from this album but the time set up everything in their place.
LOVE BG, seen em bout 30times. I've only seen Maiden more. NIME is the album that got me hooked on BG without a doubt. Imaginations from the Otherside cemented them as my 2nd fave band. Like Maiden BG live show is on another level, the connection between band and audience is what it is all about. Love to see ya react to more from NIME, there are at least 5 tracks that are absolute staples in their top20 songs all time.
BUT if you want THE Blind Guardian song to react to, it would be And Then There Was Silence. It is their magnum Opus. 14minutes of Epic metal, musical story telling that will leave ya breathless but wanting so much more... Its about the Iliad, but from Cassandra's perspective...
I already liked this channel, but now you started going through archives of my favorite band 😄
HELL YA! lets gooo
This album deserves to be enjoyed from start to finish! Treat yourself to it all!
yeah, that book fries your brain.
any chance u do a full album reaction? great reaction btw!
I've been thinking of doing album reviews.
This was the first song i heard from them, back in ´98. I was as mesmerized as you...
Cant wait for And then there was silence !
This one is great somehow I missed this song, I should listen to more Blind Guardian.
Welp, we are going on the journey dude
@@TheWolffAndTheMelody Hell yeah, looking forward to discovering more of Blind Guardian with you.
I love that album, especially Noldor (dead winter reigns)
Probably my favourite BG song!!!
All the album is complete chills from beginning to the end.
Ah "Nightfall"... always great in concerts... just back in late September in Offenbach:
Hansi singing mildly and foreboadingly:
"The words of the banished king:"
The entire crowd with energy and aggression:
*"I SWEAR REVENGE!"*
Such a joy everytime^^.
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
Much love my friend! I love this song! I have been listening to it alot.
Oh, totally forgot about this song, when I saw the cover I was totally expecting Mirror mirror. Damn! Need to go back to this album!❤
Yeaaa, I think I wanna do a live album listen
They played it live at their show in Hamburg. Even better than this! 🤘🏼
Keep goin' down that rabbit hole!
Ha, was gonna recommend Ayreon but I see you have been there! In that case, let me suggest Electric Six - Clusterfuck.
You should check out Hansi live on "Ayreon - Age of Shadows" live in Tilburg 2017, just amazing!
maybe medieval metal is a better description of this music 🙂 When I was young, the only Tolkien inspired music I could find was by an artist named Bo Hansson, with Hammond organ and some synth. I am happy more artists were inspired by the Tolkien universe.
May I suggest some earlier stuff from them, if you haven't heard it, of course..."Majesty" from the very 1st album or its title track "Battalions Of Fear", and "Follow The Blind", title track from the 2nd one, which features "Valhalla"
Demons and Wizards sounds a lot like this, but more metal.
I love Tolkien and i love BG so i don't understand why i don't already have this album 🤔if not earlier i'll have to buy it as a christmas gift to myself lol.
still noone cries for Tanelorn.
If you haven't yet, listen to The Eldar for something completely different and The Curse of Feanor for something very much like this and as good in my opinion. Happy listening!
Hello good evening, thanks for reacting to BG.
May I suggest something:
pleeease do not use so often photos with open mouth as thumbnail.
Have a nice weekend
lol nah Im good. Thanks though
It's of course up you, but I think it looks stupid and - in this quantity - I see it as click baiting. Good reactions as yours don't need it. My opinion.
At least for this reaction, there was a good reason to be picking that jaw up from the desk! :D Some people emote more than others, I actually quite enjoy it. When someone is "overselling" the reaction, it is generally easy to notice. Of course, in editing, there is a choice of what you choose to emphasize. Keep being you, Cosmic!
I`m biased as a german metal fan, but for me BG are still in the Top 3 of metal bands after all these years. I will get backlash for this, but Metallica was never as good as anything BG produced after their black album, which was 34 years ago! BG is still on the top!
somehwere far beyond is my favorite but nightfall in the middle earth was great...just didnt like all of the intros and outros
All due respect, my friend, but what is a metal elitist? English isn't my native language so I wonder what it means contextually. I hope somebody can answer me. Take care, you all.
Sorry this is late, but one would expect it to mean someone who rejects pretenders to metal, and only likes what they see as "real" metal. That's dependent on the person's opinion, so maybe it's not very helpful, but that's all I can do.