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Blind Guardian

Beyond The Red Mirror

Greatly inspired by life experience, world myths, legends, and their own fervent creativity,German Metal's most epic storytellers BLIND GUARDIAN continually aspire to define themselves on a whole new level. With their highly-anticipated, orchestral tenth studio album Beyond The Red Mirror, they have successfully captured the scope of their essence with unprecedented accuracy.
Contemplating the band's extremely successful thirty-year career when asked to describe the band's guiding principles for the creation of this new release, BLIND GUARDIAN guitarist Andre Olbrich shares: "Nowadays, music tends to be arbitrary and predictable. But we want to keep developing our music." In October 2012, the band settled into Twilight Hall Studios in Grefrath, Germany with producer Charlie Bauerfeind (SAXON, HAMMERFALL, HELLOWEEN) to begin recording Beyond The Red Mirror. For the next two years, the band worked relentlessly at infusing their inimitable, emotion-rich music with classical orchestrations within and throughout.

Confesses BLIND GUARDIAN vocalist & lyricist Hansi Kürsch. "Thanks to 'Sacred Worlds" and 'Wheel Of Time' [from 2010's At The Edge Of Time album], I can say that we have learned a lot about scoring, recording, and mixing when it comes to such music." Working with three different classical choirs - Prague (the Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary) and Boston (United States) - plus two grand orchestras featuring 90 musicians each, have generated absolutely spellbinding results that - at key moments - mimic the feeling of flying, making this new album everything BLIND GUARDIAN fans have been hoping for.

Gracing the cover and pages of this musical masterpiece is artwork by long-time collaborator Felipe Machado.Hansi reveals. "He truly is a magician. Whenever I throw in a few mumbling words, he comes back with art. It is amazing."

These ten new tracks will transport the listeners - via a mysteriously powerful red mirror - into an otherworldly dimension that includes tyrants, gods, and the Holy Grail. And it's no coincidence that Beyond The Red Mirror bears strong lyrical ties to 1995's Imaginations From The Other Side, for we are reunited with the young protagonist we first met twenty years ago in the songs 'Bright Eyes' and 'And The Story Ends' who stood before a magic door, unsure whether to make the leap into a new, unknown world or to stay in his own. Now an adult, the impact of this important moment in the protagonist's life is the launching point for the entire album.

Tracklist

• 1. The Ninth Wave
  2. Twilight of the Gods
  3. Prophecies
  4. At the Edge of Time
  5. Ashes of Eternity
  6. The Holy Grail
  7. The Throne
  8. Sacred Mind
  9. Miracle Machine
  10. The Grand Parade