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Blind Guardian (Music)

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Blind Guardian (Music)	comment	Blind Guardian is a German Power Metal band formed in 1987 (or in 1984 if you count its earlier incarnation, "Lucifer's Heritage"). Though their first few albums sounded a lot like Helloween (Kai Hansen, Helloween's guitarist, actually guested on them), they quickly developed their own style and have become one of the most influential power metal bands. The band members are fans of Queen — one of their albums is actually called A Night at the Opera after the Queen album (itself named for a movie) — and their sound is strongly influenced by Queen. Their vocalist uses doubletracking in similar ways as Freddie Mercury. They are known for their epic sound, bombastic choruses, and pseudo-medieval/Celtic ballads. Many of their songs are based on fantasy and mythology.You may know them as the band that did "Battlefield". Until his collaborator's arrest for insurrection in 2021, Hansi Kürsch also had a side project called Demons & Wizards with Iced Earth founder Jon Schaffer. He frequently guests on other speed/power/progressive metal bands' albums, including Ayreon's 01011001 and The Source, Gamma Ray's "Land of the Free" and "Farewell", and Edguy's "Vain Glory Opera" and "Out Of Control".They now have an iPhone app devoted entirely to themselves.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_116f6f1c	type	Self-Plagiarism
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_116f6f1c	comment	Self-Plagiarism: Listen to the riffs of "This Will Never End" and "Tanelorn (Into the Void)"
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_16d8476f	type	Protest Song
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_16d8476f	comment	Protest Song: "Battalions of Fear" criticizes Ronald Reagan.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_18d15922	comment	"The Last Candle" from Tales from the Twilight World begins with the repeated line "Guardian, guardian, guardian of the blind", which previously appeared in the appropriately-titled "Guardian of the Blind" from Battalions of Fear.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: "Ride Into Obsession" is half this or more, it's hard to tell which lines are from Lews Therin and which are from Moridin. "Into the Storm", "Thorn" and especially "A Dark Passage" on the Nightfall in Middle-Earth album. Also, "Mordred's Song" and "Control the Divine", among others.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: "Quest for Tanelorn" and "The Ninth Wave". Also "Inquisition", though once you recognize the source it's not so ominous.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_21c05222	type	Long-Runners
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_21c05222	comment	Long-Runners: Among the longest in Power Metal, Blind Guardian have, as of this writing, been going at the craft for nearly 40 years.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_22093e9b	type	New Sound Album
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_22093e9b	comment	New Sound Album: Tales from the Twilight World started introducing certain elements, such as multi-layered vocal harmonies and keyboard melodies that were pretty much absent (or at least hardly noticeable) from the band's previous works. A Twist in the Myth included more progressive metal elements than previous albums and toned down the band's overdubbing somewhat. Its influence can still be heard on At the Edge of Time, though many of the more traditional elements have returned as well.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_2af0378f	type	Mayincatec
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_2af0378f	comment	Mayincatec: The ''A Voice In The Dark'' video has them in one with very Caucasian inhabitants.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: "Curse of Fëanor", sung from Curufinwë Fëanáro's perspective.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_2dae4381	type	My Master, Right or Wrong
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_2dae4381	comment	My Master, Right or Wrong: In the intro to Nightfall, an unnamed servant (implied to be Sauron) arrives in Morgoth's chambers to implore him to flee, since the War of Wrath is not going in their favor. Morgoth refuses, but tells the servant to flee instead.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_34f6774c	type	Concept Album
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_34f6774c	comment	Concept Album: Nightfall in Middle-earth is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. Every later album has common theme (faith in Night at the Opera, fairy-tales and legends in Another Twist in the Myth, control and rebellion in At the Edge of Time) but songs aren't connected. Beyond the Red Mirror is a sequel to the themes introduced in Imaginations From the Other Side.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_361d0d58	type	Concept Video
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_361d0d58	comment	Concept Video: ''A Voice In The Dark'' is about the Mayans. Also qualifies as Lyrics/Video Mismatch, as the song was based on A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_38371b2	type	Rock Me, Amadeus!
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_38371b2	comment	Rock Me, Amadeus!: "By the Gates of Moria".
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_3d455888	type	Then Let Me Be Evil
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_3d455888	comment	Then Let Me Be Evil: Mordred's Song.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: "Final Chapter (Thus Ends...)," concluding Morgoth's conquest.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_51f90774	type	Step Up to the Microphone
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_51f90774	comment	Step Up to the Microphone: Back when they were called Lucifer's Heritage, they had a song called "Symphonies of Doom", parts of which were sung by their then rhythm guitarist Markus Dörk.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: A Blind Guardian is apparently someone who guards the blind, not a guardian who is blind.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_5ade32d1	type	Metal Scream
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_5ade32d1	comment	Metal Scream: There are usually a few per album. Hansi does them well.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_5fe1360d	type	Audience Participation Song
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_5fe1360d	comment	Audience Participation Song: Most of their songs, but "The Bard's Song" is sung mostly by the audience, "Valhalla" and "The Last Candle" involve the audience chanting the chorus (or in "The Last Candle"'s case, the outro) for as long as possible after the song ends, and "And Then There Was Silence" actually has a part that goes "la-la-la", representing thousands of excited, celebratory people. They say that they don't plan for people to sing along... Ever seen a theater full of people all riled up to defend Troy against the Greek menace? Not to mention that the non-"la la la" lyrics include "Come join in our singing..."
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6788e74a	type	Lead Bassist
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6788e74a	comment	Lead Bassist: Hansi Kürsch was a type B until session bassists took over.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_67d722d8	type	A Storm Is Coming
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: "Mirror Mirror", "Into the Storm", "And Then There Was Silence", several others.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: There's a classic one from Morgoth in the Nightfall in Middle-Earth interlude "Captured", and Hansi has taken to doing an insane-sounding laugh in "Valhalla".
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: "Welcome to Dying".
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6dac7d2e	type	Lust Object
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6dac7d2e	comment	Lust Object: The Silmarils in "Into the Storm".
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6f2fe973	type	Epic Instrumental Opener
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6f2fe973	comment	Epic Instrumental Opener: "Sacred Worlds" rocks out instrumentally for 2:10 (in a song that's about 9:15 total) before the lyrics start.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6f4af3e5	type	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_6f4af3e5	comment	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: Hansi has nearly perfect fluency in English, which sets him heavily apart from many European power metal singers and songwriters. That said, he still has a massive German accent, which on occasion leads to some...interesting arrangements of syntax and pronunciation. For instance, in "The Quest For Tanelorn": And famously in "Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)":
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_73fa8db	type	Singer Namedrop
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_73fa8db	comment	Band Name Drop: A sneaky one in "The Last Candle", with the phrase "Guardian, guardian, guardian of the blind" being repeated four times in a row, meaning that you get to hear "blind guardian" three times.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_74149c93	type	Epic Rocking
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_74149c93	comment	Epic Rocking: And Then There Was Silence is not only 14 minutes long, the full version was released as a single.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_74b7629c	type	Instrumentals
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_74b7629c	comment	Instrumentals: "Lucifer's Heritage", "Trial by the Archon", "By the Gates of Moria", "Gandalf's Rebirth", "Beyond the Ice", "Weird Dreams", "The Piper's Calling".
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_78e8eba5	comment	"I Am" Song: Wheel of Time, which is from the perspective of the hero of the titular series, Rand al' Thor.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Onstage and as a person, Hansi is a very grounded, subtle presence, setting him apart from, say, the thigh-pounding of Joakim Brodén and the scenery-chewing of Tobias Sammet. This only makes it all the more stunning that the guy's singing voice can best be described as a bombastic, echoing roar, belting his high-fantasy lyrics pretty much in all caps.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_8409a385	comment	2003 - Live (live)
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: A lot of their songs are from the villain's point of view. For example, "Under the Ice" is from the viewpoint of Clytemnestra, who was responsible for murdering Agamemnon and Cassandra. And don't get us started on their Sauron tributes.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_8eb3d48f	type	Revisiting the Roots
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_8eb3d48f	comment	Revisiting the Roots: The God Machine is a stylistic throwback to their early/mid 1990s output, with a more aggressive and riff-driven sound, less heavily layered vocals, and virtually no symphonic presence.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_913646a5	type	Speed Metal
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_913646a5	comment	Speed Metal: Battalions of Fear was still heavily tied to the German speed metal sound, with a sound fairly reminiscent of Helloween's early works, and while Follow the Blind was a shift to power metal, it still had prominent speed metal elements.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_a6254a7a	type	Loudness War
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_a6254a7a	comment	Loudness War: Everything after Nightfall In Middle-Earth, but A Night At The Opera is easily the worst offender of them all.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: "Blood Tears." If you know your Silmarillion, you know the guy'll be saved. It'll cost him a hand, but he'll be okay for the entire First Age.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_b58642b1	type	Trapped in Another World
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_b58642b1	comment	Trapped in Another World: "Imaginations From The Other Side" is about this.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Many, both to bands and writers. Possibly a reverse shout out; in the last Wheel of Time novel, A Memory of Light, chapter 23 is called At the Edge of Time, the same name as the Blind Guardian album which featured two songs about the book series.
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_cff53786	type	Cover Version
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_cff53786	comment	Cover Version: "Barbara Ann", "Surfin' USA", "Long Tall Sally," "Mr. Sandman," "Don't Talk to Strangers," "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida", "Dream a Little Dream," "Hallelujah," "The Wizard," "To France," "Spread Your Wings," "Trial by Fire", "Don't Break the Circle", "You're the Voice" and "Beyond the Realms of Death".
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: an attempt to defy it in "Curse my Name."
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Blind Guardian (Music) / int_d4db8c54	type	Symphonic Metal
Blind Guardian (Music) / int_d4db8c54	comment	Symphonic Metal: They have more elements of this from Nightfall in Middle-Earth onward, but "Sacred Worlds" and "Wheel of Time" are definitely this, being performed with a full orchestra. Beyond the Red Mirror expands the style for almost every song. They almost completely abandoned this on The God Machine for a Revisiting the Roots approach reminiscent of their early/mid 1990s output.
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