Follow The Blind - Blind Guardian

Okay, thanks for all the comments and tips concerning my first opinion, I'll try to keep up the good work and even improve my future opinions of course...

I'm continuing now in the album history of Blind Guardian and will now tell you something about their second release titled "Follow the Blind". The album was recorded and also released on No Remorse Records in 1989
and contained ten tracks.

The music ...
...guardain played on their debut, "Battalions of Fear" though but the sound could be improved. The album starts with a monk chant singing some Latin lines I can't recall right now. "Banish from Sanctuary" is the name of the opener: A fast and hard song with a great chorus. this song has been played live for many times since then and is still a classical tune.

Hansi's voice was a little bit better than on the debut ... more

Okay, thanks for all the comments and tips concerning my first opinion, I'll try to keep up the good work and even improve my future opinions of course...

I'm continuing now in the album history of Blind Guardian and will now tell you something about their second release titled "Follow the Blind". The album was recorded and also released on No Remorse Records in 1989
and contained ten tracks.

The music was not too different from the melodic speed metal Blind guardain played on their debut, "Battalions of Fear" though but the sound could be improved. The album starts with a monk chant singing some Latin lines I can't recall right now. "Banish from Sanctuary" is the name of the opener: A fast and hard song with a great chorus. this song has been played live for many times since then and is still a classical tune.

Hansi's voice was a little bit better than on the debut album, as you can hear on some high screams and Blind Guardian used choirs in their refrains more often than they did on the debut. Still fast and heavy songs ruled the album: "Hall of the King", "Fast to Madness" and "Damned for all Time" are tunes where you can easily bang your head to. The titletrack showed a more epic side of the band: "Follow the Blind" was in midtempo and offered a mixture of e-guitars and accoustic ones. There's also another instrumental on the CD entitled "Beyond the ice": Nice, but nothing special...

The best song by far on this album is without a doubt "Valhalla". It is heavy, pounding and the refrain is the best the band has written so far. Still a classic song in concerts you can hear the whole audience singing along the lines: "Valhalla, deliverance... have you ever forgotten me?"

The last track of the album is of a funny nature: Blind Guardian did a cover of the Beach Boys "Barbara Anne"!!! They had some guest singers for that track and it's always fun to see people's reaction when they listen to that tune for the first time! As the fans loved this song it still ends every Blind Guardian concert with a great party, the fans jumping and dancing and singing along "Barbara Anne"...

The cover was done by Waay Design who also did the cover for the debut and shows the dark guardian, who appeared on most of the following releases, for the first time.

Though there are way better album by Blind Guardian "Follow the Blind" is still a good album compared with other band's works.
 

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