Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
| Release date: | 29 June 1992 |
| Style: | Power metal, Speed metal |
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01. Time What Is Time
02. Journey Through The Dark
03. Black Chamber
04. Theatre Of Pain
05. The Quest For Tanelorn
06. Ashes To Ashes
07. The Bard's Song - In The Forest
08. The Bard's Song - The Hobbit
09. The Piper's Calling
10. Somewhere Far Beyond
11. Spread Your Wings [Queen cover] [CD bonus]
12. Trial By Fire [Satan cover] [CD bonus]
13. Theatre Of Pain [classic version] [CD bonus]
14. Ashes To Ashes [demo] [2007 re-release bonus]
15. Time What Is Time [demo] [2007 re-release bonus]
Top 20 albums of 1992: 4
Top 200 albums of all time: 145
02. Journey Through The Dark
03. Black Chamber
04. Theatre Of Pain
05. The Quest For Tanelorn
06. Ashes To Ashes
07. The Bard's Song - In The Forest
08. The Bard's Song - The Hobbit
09. The Piper's Calling
10. Somewhere Far Beyond
11. Spread Your Wings [Queen cover] [CD bonus]
12. Trial By Fire [Satan cover] [CD bonus]
13. Theatre Of Pain [classic version] [CD bonus]
14. Ashes To Ashes [demo] [2007 re-release bonus]
15. Time What Is Time [demo] [2007 re-release bonus]
Top 20 albums of 1992: 4
Top 200 albums of all time: 145
Review
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Rating:
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Rating: 9.0 |
Somewhere Far Beyond by Blind Guardian, may very well be the best album of the band, or it should even rank amongst the best power metal albums of all time. The album starts off slowly with the intro to "Time What Is Time", and quickly progresses into the typical Blind Guardian speed and vocalism. I think personally that Time What Is Time is a low point for the album. I liked the demo version of the song better, and I think the extra effects were added to this song just for the heck of it. But one flaw does little to discredit this album. Read more ›› |
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| JÄY Metal slave Posts: 1533 From: USA  |
The perfect culmenation of their early and later sounds....still, plenty aggressive, but with better melodies than earlier releases....it is divine. Every release after is too soft, imo.
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| Zap Phlegmish Posts: 3055 From: Ireland  |
While listening to the title track recently I suddenly noticed/realized it's about The Dark Tower...
---- And the tears that we will weep today Will all be washed away By the tears that we will weep again tomorrow
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| mikeprado30 Posts: 1064 From: Costa Rica  |
Their first well-produced album.
---- BARDS WE ARE, BARDS WE WILL BE!
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| JÄY Metal slave Posts: 1533 From: USA |
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 51416 From: Norway  |
Speed and fats meets medieval charmony and eders, bards and bonefore, forests ehhh I love this this is changeing album, BG was lil diferebnt after this band strat play power but still are fast and speedy still kick ass like I have repeat many times band does not suck till Nighfall at Midle Earth
---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 51416 From: Norway |
Written by mikeprado30 on 30.05.2012 at 07:26 yes true because prev was poor quality sound, and seems studio mixing and mastering was also week
---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Deadmeat Necrobutcher Posts: 2425 From: Greece  |
I dont know why but as i listen through their discography i tend to adore their first albums much more than their next...
---- Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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| Rulatore Posts: 1036 From: Brazil  |
Written by mikeprado30 on 30.05.2012 at 07:26 I like the production on "Follow the Blind", maybe I find it better than the production on "Imaginations from the other Side". But yeah, this is pretty well produced/executed. The title track is godlike  Also props to "Journey through the Dark", such riffing.
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| pipis Posts: 10 From: Greece |
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 51416 From: Norway |
Written by deadone on 10.04.2014 at 08:25 this is not speed, real speed was 1tha nd second album only, rest is pure PM, even epic touch not as some cheasy Freedom call
---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Ruchesko Posts: 434 From: UK  |
Sweet Moses, this is a good album - should not have waited so long to look into BG.
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| Susan Smeghead Posts: 6941 From: USA  |
This may have recently eclipsed Nightfall as my favorite BG album
---- "A life all mine Is what I choose At the end of my days" --The Gathering "A Life All Mine" from Souvenirs
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| musclassia Posts: 2225 From: UK  |
This, IFTOS and ANATO are the 3 contenders - NIME cannot get close. Time what is time is a blistering opener, the bard's song is great for a band anthem, and the title track is extraordinary
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8447 From: Czech Republic  |
The bagpipe interlude in "Somewhere Far Beyond" may be one of their best music moments ever also this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zklqr1xj32Q 
---- My rest seems now calm and deep Finally I got my dead man sleep 
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| Metren Chameleon Posts: 945 From: Estonia  |
Over the course of many years, I have come to the firm conclusion that this is BG's best album by far. I think Nightfall and Imaginations have thier moments, but overall, both those albums are quite overrated and the songwriting on both of them is rather mediocre. BG and Iced Earth are the only power metal bands I like and this album still gets the occasional listen from me. Listening to it again as I type this and yep, it's still pretty good and very good when it comes to the acoustic moments.
---- I am not nor have I ever been a musician or a member of a one-man band, especially a band that has a name that starts with "D".
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| Redel Posts: 602 From: Germany  |
Yes, this is their best. Highlights: Journey Through The Dark and the title track. OMG, back in the 90s I have really been a huge fan of this band....
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| Paulh Posts: 438  |
01. Time What Is Time - 9/10 02. Journey Through The Dark - 9/10 03. Black Chamber - 9/10 04. Theatre Of Pain - 9/10 05. The Quest For Tanelorn - 9/10 06. Ashes To Ashes - 8.5/10 07. The Bard's Song - In The Forest - 9/10 08. The Bard's Song - The Hobbit - 8.5/10 09. The Piper's Calling - N/A 10. Somewhere Far Beyond - 9/10 Overall: 8.9/10 An impressively consistent release. For me, there are no standout songs as all are fantastic.
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