Nightfall in Middle-Earth Revisited (Part One) | Blind Guardian

[@viridisdraco]

the best album ever? the best album ever.

[@sekobg]

"Rhiiinegoooooollldd quietly it crept in and changed us all..."

[@kaptansimav1710]

Glad to see a familiar name ;)

[@29brunu]

Tolkien wrote Silmarillion based on "Nightfall in middle earth" don't make a mistake friends.

[@viridisdraco]

now don't be heretic, my friend

[@RBCraneGongfu]

@@viridisdraco I'm still hesitating to actually read the book because I'm afraid it won't be as good as the album though.

[@lordandsaviour5666]

If you're into the type of stuff Tolkien writes about, definitely read it, it's a great book.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

@@RBCraneGongfu it is ;)

[@sebastianveranavarro4893]

@@RBCraneGongfu tnks to this album I discovered my all time favorite book. I love the Silmarillion with all my heart. You should read it my friend.

[@elessarrecords]

The album that changed my life and led me to the world of Tolkien.

[@viridisdraco]

i did the opposite way, that album introduced me to the Bards

[@PauloHowlett]

@@viridisdraco Lord or the Rings led me to BG as well.

[@Metalton95]

Noldor is arguably their greatest song.. such an underrated gem of a song (powerballad?!) with it's awesome pre-chorus & chorus and especially the section from 4:24 with that melody in the background!

[@danilovilasboas]

Alongside with Blood Tears. And Thorn. And Curse of Feanor. And A Dark Passage. Damm, all this album is a masterpiece.

[@c0xb0x]

Totally agreed, that buildup is so awesome!

[@emilyrattini8462]

We muuuust see it liiiiive...v

[@blasterofmuppets4754]

no

[@SonofGondor91]

Two decades of listening to various metal bands, diving into different genres, and even moving away from power metal as my comfort genre - this is still the best album I have ever heard. It's simply incredible how well the atmosphere of the story was conveyed through music. All killer no filler, an absolute masterpiece.

[@SolAlexiron]

Best album ever for me

[@jakobbottiger5331]

a little story: I once stumbled across Blind Guardian because a friend played a song of them in his car radio, and i looked their songs up on KZbin. I fell in love and you guys are my faourite Band to this day. But because I listened to your songs via KZbin I listened to them in a more random way and not one album at a time. Id say you all know that certain feeling you get when you listen to your favourite BG songs. And I was wondering if that is "just" nostalgia or the melodies creating this certain passionate nice feeling in some people who discover this Band. So one day a few years later i stumbled across Nightall and was shook because somehow i must have missed it when i began to hear BG. And when I listened to that song it prooved to me that Blind Guardian songs ( not all of them but most of them) are truly something special and I loved the song just in the same way i loved the songs I discovered when i was 10 years old. I dont know how you do that, but your melodies ARE something special. Grüße aus Schleswig- Holtstein, Ihr seid die besten :D

[@ArlekinVergeltungswaffe]

Best album....ever. Period.

[@tolkienismaster]

Tolkien fan since about 20 years, NiME was my first BG album. The Curse of Feanor was the first song I heard (here on YT). Loved the lyrics and the music so I checked more info on the Band, the album and powermetal. No choice, I must order this album. So I did. Now, many years later, I got all BG albums and discovered many interesting metal band.

[@thenomad4123]

Damn, I am really curious about that Rheingold chorus now!

[@ohdannyboy4727]

Good to hear all the history of this band. Nightfall is an amazing album. Thanks for these interviews. Though they don’t like to dress up they would look cool, not in full suits or medieval armor, but something like Aragorn in his ranger clothes. Long coats and such. They definitely don’t need it tho.

[@PauloHowlett]

I like to know that Hansi thinks Ni E is the best album It's one of my favorites.

[@PajakTheBlind]

I still have a clear memory in my head of final words of War Of Wrath, and like first 3 bars of Into The Storm. And a slightly more vague memory of the whole song the first time I listened to Nightfall In Middle-Earth. Great memories indeed.

[@emilyrattini8462]

Nightfall in Middle-Earth was how I discovered these guys...Itll always hold a special place among their discography for me. (Not that their other stuff isnt completely f^@king amazing.)

[@dmitryshkolnik5233]

NIME makes me wonder if there's really something more to the world than we see and know. because.. it's hard for me to imagine something this beautiful and deeply touching - from a human standpoint, anyway - can be just made up from random or even purposefully man-made variations of wavelengths and intervals between them. and come out of nowhere, just as a result of some chemical reactions in a human brain. like a genius insight, it must come to being from some place beyond, it just has to

[@c0xb0x]

This talk is very much related to that kzbin.info/www/bejne/omfSmWRqq8uboqs

[@jeandumoulin1669]

I've been listening to this album for 26 years. And I still play the same CD today. It has been played thousands of times. By far the best concept album ever written. And yes. I took care of it. It is like a bible to me. Thank you so much for all your hard work putting it together. Love you guys. Forever.

[@chrisdelacour2313]

Jean Dumoulin u couldnt have listened to it for 26 yrs since it was released in 1998.

[@jeandumoulin1669]

@@chrisdelacour2313 Haha. Oh ya. Bad math. I was about 20 and I am 36 now. So about 16. Lol. My bad

[@chrisdelacour2313]

Jean Dumoulin no worries its still their greatest album in my opinion 👍

[@jeandumoulin1669]

@@chrisdelacour2313 without a doubt

[@gringochucha]

I discovered it when I was 15. I'm 35 now, so I've been listening to it for about 20 years. It never gets old and I can sing every second of it.

The album which get me in Blind Guardian music (listening to it in 2008) was NIME. It was the part of my life when Tolkien books were the only one I read, again and again, playing also LOTR game from Games Workshop and so on. Still now one of my favourite music album of all time ! Still, I feel like the production, voice mixing were poor at this moment, I will taste the remastered version soon !

[@A_Ducky]

Thank you SO much for these interviews, and insights into how each album came to be. They're absolutely priceless! I hope all of this ends up on a "Blind Guardian biography DVD" soon. 🤘

[@PauloHowlett]

The best vlog in the KZbin.

[@MetalPersonJ]

During Hansi's praise for Nightfall as his favorite BG album I realized something: this is a guy who's willing to do it for the fans. As most of you know BG toured playing all of Imaginations From The Other side, which of course I went to, and it was fucking awesome. 2018 came and went and we never got a 20th anniversary for Nightfall in Middle Earth (which I would have went to....if I wasn't broke). You'd think Hansi would want to do that given it's his favorite, but I guess it just wasn't possible in their schedule. Point is, props to Hansi for approving a tour doing all of that album even though it isn't his favourite. Slayer fans never got to hear Slayer do all of South of Heaven cos Jeff Hanneman didn't like it. Hansi's the man.

[@gringochucha]

South of Heaven is Slayer's weakest classic album, in my opinion, so no big loss to the world there. As for NIME, I would pay so much money to see them play the whole thing live. The Somewhere Far Beyond show last year was absolutely amazing. Of course it wouldn't be the same without Thomen's drumming, but you can't have everything.

[@andrewnld7250]

ive wore out 2 cds of this album it is my all time favourite piece of recorded music!!!

[@ladywhatsername713]

nightfall in middle earth was the first bg album I owened. Sooooooo awesome.

[@lordandsaviour5666]

It's going to be the first album I've ever bought, I'm definitely looking forward to hearing it (especially the new mix)

[@kristianferencik8685]

"The best album ever". You're goddamn right

[@darklordsauron398]

I love them

[@PedroIaco]

Rheeeeeeeingooooooold

[@rDudele]

the best cd ever!

[@maharero5555]

🤘🤘Hell yeaah🤘🤘

[@VindictiveRaider]

I named my son Thorne after the song thorn.😀

[@emilyrattini8462]

...now *that`s* dedication.

[@gringochucha]

It's a shame Thomen wasn't here for this one : (

[@TheWanderingBard17]

i honestly love Twist in the Myth Best

[@emilyrattini8462]

...I`m sorry, *what?* Its not a bad album, but aTitM is positively iffy compared to Nightfall!

[@TheWanderingBard17]

@@emilyrattini8462 Nightfall is amazing and i'm not saying anything is better, i just love twist in the myth the most

[@emilyrattini8462]

@@TheWanderingBard17 ok then, to each their own. :)

[@alexestevam]

Is Anders Friden there to copy ideas and get inspired?

[@minasmin4648]

Where can I download the new re-releases tho

[@Felipe-yk7od]

Subtitle in portuguese please!!

[@Voidootaku]

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