A New Myth For The Guardian

It should no longer matter to Blind Guardian fans that their new releases take more than 4 years to see the light of day. Their perfectionism and commitment into delivering something unique pay off and the wait is more than worth it. Their previous album, "A Night At The Opera", received a lot of criticism but mainly, in my opinion, from short-sighted sources. It was a brilliant album whose only fault was that it was over the top. Indeed, it was the complexity and the elaborate production that was the reason of most criticism.
"A Twist In The Myth" is the next logical step. Retaining the new, progressive elements of "A Night At The Opera" but also recruiting a couple of their old-style dynamics that made them so popular, the new Blind Guardian offering will satisfy just about everyone who listens to this kind of music. What kind of music? Well...it is definitely a heavy metal album, but it's been a long time since we could compare Guardian with anyone else. The production is reasonably less ambitious than "ANATO", but the band's inspiration (even though there's no "And Then There Was Silence" here) is still phenomenal after all those years. Oh, and one last thing...Thomen's absence behind the drums is not felt at all! The german bards did it again.