I also received in yesterday’s package the new album of my other favourite band, Blind Guardian. It’s titled A Twist in the Myth. Let me tell you, it rocks.

Very well built, composed and presented songs, with good old Blind Guardian-level hit songs like Fly or Skalds and Shadows, but – unlike the new Maiden – there are no songs that are “less good”, so to say.

You can read the first review on my blog – on the Rage album i wrote about before…

To begin with, this Rage has nothing to do with the rap-metal band Rage against the machine. This Rage is much older, and in my opinion, much better – at least the quality is. The strange is with this album is the amount of instrumental tracks – while an other band makes one such track only on every third album, Rage made no less than five on only this release. The first two, the fourth, the sixth and the seventh are in the lack of the vox humana, but all five of them are very well composed works.

There seems to be a break after the song titled Beauty – while there are mostly slow, emotional tracks before, after Beauty the style changes a lot. There are no instrumental tracks, and all songs are a lot more hard. No fear is the first of this series, and it is like a connector between the slow and the faster songs. It has both slow and fast parts, though the fast ones are rather dominant. The verses are easy to listen to, easy to sing, and very hard to forget. My favourite song from the album is the one that comes after, titled Soul survivor. It’s an original, fast, very tuneful song, so high in quality that i could only compare it to Iron Maiden or Blind Guardian songs. Turn my world around is the third 100% perfect song from the album, with a chorus that any band could envy.

To sum it all up, this year’s Rage release worth buying, to everyone who listens to metal. Really.

Rating: 5/5

Official Rage website