Track Listing

1. This Will Never End
2. Otherland
3. Turn The Page
4. Fly
5. Carry The Blessed Home
6. Another Starnger Me
7. Straight Through The Mirror
8. Lionheart
9. Skalds & Shadows
10. Edge
11. New Order

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9913 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .33 pounds

Customer Reviews

Hobbits & mead ahoy!
Eighteen years on from their debut album, "Battalions Of Fear", and on this, their umpteenth album, Blind Guardian are making the usual noises about updating their sound and going in new directions. I'm, not sure why long standing band do this. After all, the phrase 'long standing' is there because folks like the noise they make and keep on buying it. It's not to hear their radical new crunk influenced direction.

Mind you, if you've heard the hit single "Fly" you'd have cause for concern. A sleeker, poppier side to Blind Guardian, it reached #1 in Japan, #4 in Spain and breached a few other countries on the way. Luckily it's a bit of an aberration as most of "A Twist In The Myth" concentrates on the symphonic progressive metal that has made their reputation.

It may be a sign of my own impending mental collapse but I can't stop returning to the power ballad "Carry The Blessed Home", despite it's faux Celtic, Eurovision feel. Worrying. Praise be then for "Lionheart" and "Skalds And Shadows", the former for it's full on metal and the latter for its utter Blackmores Night, madrigal madness.

This is a cracking release, but it does broaden their sound, something that may have a few die hards flinging their rusty, studded wristbands away in disgust. But, sensibly, they've taken baby steps, and this dragon drenched disc should keep them in flagons of mead for a while yet.

Bind Guardian-Twist in the Myth Review
This is my first review of any product that i have bought on amazon.
First of all i really like this album, i think its really well produced and i love the music that they have made. Iv heard from people who are die hard Blind Guardian fans that this album is not good compared with there other stuff. I heard Blind Guardian at Bloodstock this year for the first time and i was absolutly blowen away by them, i thought they were brilliant live so i decided to buy a couple of albums and again i was not let down. The other album that i bought was "Follow the Blind" which was a good album in my opinion.

So if you are just getting into Blind Guardian this is a really good album to get, but if you are already a fan then just buy it anyway to add to your collection :P.

totally awesome
This needs more reviews ! There's not a bad song on the album, and don't be put off by the descriptions of Fly, it is an awesome hard rock song, catchy and up-beat, like most of the Bards' songs. Also worthy of note are Turn the Page, with its Pagan lyrics and almost 70's Celtic fantasy soundtrack vibe, and Carry the Blessed Home which I can't get out of my head. I'd already heard Skalds and Shadows, and Another Stranger Me and liked them a lot; the former with its Medieval vibe and the latter with its psychotic lyrics and bouncy riffs. Hansi's voice gets better and better, and their new drummer also plays bagpipes and flute ! The guitars are as tight as ever, and the lyrics intriguing and though-provoking. I can't wait for the next album as I'm sure they're going to build even more on the styles and melodies etc introduced here; there's never a boring moment on a Bards CD so buy it or forever miss out on some of the best epic power metal you'll ever hear....
oh, and I object to hearing more of those bagpipes, Freddie :D