Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth (2006) [Limited Digipak DCD Edition] RE-UPLOAD

A Twist in the Myth is the eighth studio album by the German progressive power metal band Blind Guardian. It was originally set to be released on September 5, 2006 in Europe (which became the North American release date), but Nuclear Blast changed the release date to September 1, 2006.
The album was released in several different formats: a normal version, a digipak version with a bonus track and bonus CD, and a limited edition book-version.

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Blind Guardian fans have grown accustomed to waiting long periods between the band's studio albums, which these masters of German progressive power metal tend to deliver only every four years or so – much like World Cups, curiously enough. That was precisely the gap separating 2002's A Night at the Opera, which dismayed some longtime fans with its nearly symphonic, unusually complicated compositions, and 2006's A Twist in the Myth, which establishes something of a middle ground between that trend and the group's slightly more approachable earlier material. Of course Blind Guardian, by any era or definition, can still be counted on to inject enough pretentious pomp into high-flying metal anthems such as "This Will Never End", "Straight Through the Mirror", and especially album standout "Turn the Page", to make Ronnie James Dio pull out his fantasy almanac, get Freddie Mercury nodding in posthumous approval. Speaking of ol' Mercury, "Carry the Blessed Home" marries Queen-sized guitar and vocal orchestrations to BG singer Hansi Kürsch's recurring extrapolations on Stephen King's Dark Tower novels; and his reading habits are given even further disclosure on the likes of "Otherland" (inspired by Tad Williams' novels by the same name) and the Celtic myth-inspired "Skalds and Shadows". In fact, it's hardly surprising to find just one song – the psycho-analytical "Another Stranger Me" – that might actually be (emphasis on "might") entirely based on real-world experience, not that the band's fans would have it any other way. And whether fans want to nitpick and argue over minor changes in direction, the fact is that A Twist in the Myth is tailor made for the everyman Blind Guardian supporter. Now if they can only hang in there until the next World Cup rolls around.

~ Eduardo Rivadavia, all media guide

Tracklist - CD 1:

01. This Will Never End
02. Otherland
03. Turn The Page
04. Fly
05. Carry The Blessed Home
06. Another Stranger Me
07. Straight Through The Mirror
08. Lionheart
09. Skalds And Shadows
10. The Edge
11. The New Order
12. Dead Sound Of Misery [Digipak Bonus Track]

All lyrics written by Hansi Kürsch
all music written by Olbrich and Kürsch



Tracklist - CD 2:

01. Interview [German]
02. Interview [English]
03. DATA [Blind Guardian Media Player]
a) Another Stranger Me [Music Video]
b) Making Of Another Stranger Me
(MPEG-1 352x288 | Audio: 224 Kbps)


Produced by Charlie Bauerfeind & Blind Guardian
Engineered by Charlie Bauerfeind & Jan Rubach
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered at Twilight Hall Studios, Germany from September 2005 to April 2006
Mixed and Mastered by Charlie Bauerfeind



• Hansi Kürsch – lead vocals
• André Olbrich - lead guitars
• Marcus Siepen – rhythm guitar
• Frederik Ehmke – drums, percussion, flute and bagpipes

additional musicians:
- Oliver Holzwarth – bass guitar
- The Choir Company - Olaf Senkbeil, Rolf Köhler, Thomas Hackmann
- Martin G. Meyer and Pat Benzner – keyboards

Release Date: September 1, 2006
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Nuclear Blast
Catalog No.: NB 1515-0


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