![]() ![]() The opening song ‘Halloween’ would, in time, become ‘Wizard’s Crown’ and feature on the debut album Battalions of Fear. As though caught under the spell of a premonition, that work was entitled Symphonies of Doom, foreshadowing a grand masterwork to be completed some three decades later by Hansi and Andre – the Blind Guardian Twilight Orchestra’s Legacy of the Dark Lands. Our story begins in Krefeld, Germany (1985) where four young bards – Hansi Kursch, Andre Olbrich, Marcus Dork and Thomen Stauch – have just completed their first work under the name of Lucifer’s Heritage. ![]() To see the full remixed and remastered reissue series: /blindguardian-reissuesĪll Blind Guardian albums are also available on picture-disc vinyl and on CD. To fans they need no introduction of course, but in celebration of their thirty-fifth year of making music and the remixed and remastered reissue series now available on Nuclear Blast, it seems only right to tell the chronicle of the Bards’ tales. To many the music and imagery of Blind Guardian epitomises the power metal style, and while it is fair to say that Rainbow and Iron Maiden are the real progenerators of the power metal aesthetic, Blind Guardian certainly codified many of the elements which you might hear in contemporary power metal titans and label-mates Battle Beast, Beast In Black, Rhapsody of Fire and Sabaton – high-register wails, fast and technical musicianship, symphonic layering and a conceptual approach to album arrangement and composition. You may even have caught a glimpse of them performing live from far across a festival-ground somewhere. ![]() You might have heard their music played in rock and metal bars. You will have seen their logo on the fronts of t-shirts, on the backs of hoodies, or proudly stitched into a denim vest. You will have seen their records in shops. Blind Guardian are one of those bands which you will not have gotten far into heavy metal without coming to know. ![]()
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