Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

8.8 | 933 votes |

Release date:	29 June 1992
Style:	Power metal, Speed metal
Owners:	1203 have it 88 want it

01. Time What Is Time
02. Journey Through The Dark
03. Black Chamber
04. Theatre Of Pain
05. The Quest For Tanelorn
06. Ashes To Ashes
07. The Bard's Song - In The Forest
08. The Bard's Song - The Hobbit
09. The Piper's Calling
10. Somewhere Far Beyond
11. Spread Your Wings [Queen cover] [CD bonus]
12. Trial By Fire [Satan cover] [CD bonus]
13. Theatre Of Pain [classic version] [CD bonus]
14. Ashes To Ashes [demo] [2007 re-release bonus]
15. Time What Is Time [demo] [2007 re-release bonus]

Top 20 albums of 1992: 6
Top 200 albums of all time: 167

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Rating:
9.0

Somewhere Far Beyond by Blind Guardian, may very well be the best album of the band, or it should even rank amongst the best power metal albums of all time. The album starts off slowly with the intro to "Time What Is Time", and quickly progresses into the typical Blind Guardian speed and vocalism. I think personally that Time What Is Time is a low point for the album. I liked the demo version of the song better, and I think the extra effects were added to this song just for the heck of it. But one flaw does little to discredit this album.

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JÄY Metal slave Posts: 1471 From: USA	28.08.2011 - 07:17 Rating: 10 JÄY Metal slave Posts: 1471 From: USA The perfect culmenation of their early and later sounds....still, plenty aggressive, but with better melodies than earlier releases....it is divine. Every release after is too soft, imo. Loading...
Zaph The Nothingth Posts: 2598 From: Belgium	21.03.2012 - 16:57 Rating: 8 Zaph The Nothingth Posts: 2598 From: Belgium While listening to the title track recently I suddenly noticed/realized it's about The Dark Tower... ---- Wubba Lubba Dub Dub Loading...
mikeprado30 Posts: 752 From: Costa Rica	30.05.2012 - 07:26 Rating: 10 mikeprado30 Posts: 752 From: Costa Rica Their first well-produced album. ---- BARDS WE ARE, BARDS WE WILL BE! Loading...
JÄY Metal slave Posts: 1471 From: USA	23.09.2012 - 23:06 Rating: 10 JÄY Metal slave Posts: 1471 From: USA About to fall off the top 200.....I weep Loading...
Bad English Masterchief Posts: 45767 From: Sweden	30.12.2012 - 23:49 Rating: 9 Bad English Masterchief Posts: 45767 From: Sweden Speed and fats meets medieval charmony and eders, bards and bonefore, forests ehhh I love this this is changeing album, BG was lil diferebnt after this band strat play power but still are fast and speedy still kick ass like I have repeat many times band does not suck till Nighfall at Midle Earth ---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing Loading...
Bad English Masterchief Posts: 45767 From: Sweden	30.12.2012 - 23:49 Rating: 9 Bad English Masterchief Posts: 45767 From: Sweden Written by mikeprado30 on 30.05.2012 at 07:26 Their first well-produced album. yes true because prev was poor quality sound, and seems studio mixing and mastering was also week ---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing Loading...
Deadmeat Necrobutcher Posts: 2399 From: Greece	13.12.2013 - 23:00 Rating: 7 Deadmeat Necrobutcher Posts: 2399 From: Greece I dont know why but as i listen through their discography i tend to adore their first albums much more than their next... ---- Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD! Loading...
Rulatore Posts: 901 From: Brazil	27.02.2014 - 04:47 Rating: 10 Rulatore Posts: 901 From: Brazil Written by mikeprado30 on 30.05.2012 at 07:26 Their first well-produced album. I like the production on "Follow the Blind", maybe I find it better than the production on "Imaginations from the other Side". But yeah, this is pretty well produced/executed. The title track is godlike Also props to "Journey through the Dark", such riffing. Loading...
pipis Posts: 9 From: Greece	23.04.2014 - 18:41 Rating: 10 pipis Posts: 9 From: Greece Best album blind guardian:bow: Loading...
Bad English Masterchief Posts: 45767 From: Sweden	20.02.2015 - 15:53 Rating: 9 Bad English Masterchief Posts: 45767 From: Sweden Written by deadone on 10.04.2014 at 08:25 Some great songs on this one! German speed/power metal as the Branch Davidians intended it themselves. this is not speed, real speed was 1tha nd second album only, rest is pure PM, even epic touch not as some cheasy Freedom call ---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die'' I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing Loading...
Ruchesko Posts: 390 From: UK	08.03.2015 - 00:53 Rating: 9 Ruchesko Posts: 390 From: UK Sweet Moses, this is a good album - should not have waited so long to look into BG. ---- "Making a death threat is too easy these days. If every tweet cost a stamp, people would have a whole lot less opinions." -Andrew Maxwell Loading...
Susan Smeghead Posts: 6925 From: USA	08.03.2015 - 01:07 Rating: 10 Susan Smeghead Posts: 6925 From: USA This may have recently eclipsed Nightfall as my favorite BG album ---- "A life all mine Is what I choose At the end of my days" --The Gathering "A Life All Mine" from Souvenirs Loading...
musclassia Posts: 824 From: UK	08.03.2015 - 02:35 Rating: 9 musclassia Posts: 824 From: UK This, IFTOS and ANATO are the 3 contenders - NIME cannot get close. Time what is time is a blistering opener, the bard's song is great for a band anthem, and the title track is extraordinary Loading...
Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8323 From: Czech Republic	08.03.2015 - 11:18 Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8323 From: Czech Republic The bagpipe interlude in "Somewhere Far Beyond" may be one of their best music moments ever also this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zklqr1xj32Q ---- So behold the flight of the sapphire dragon soaring through the skies once again Loading...
Metren The What The? Posts: 413 From: Estonia	15.08.2016 - 18:21 Rating: 8 Metren The What The? Posts: 413 From: Estonia Over the course of many years, I have come to the firm conclusion that this is BG's best album by far. I think Nightfall and Imaginations have thier moments, but overall, both those albums are quite overrated and the songwriting on both of them is rather mediocre. BG and Iced Earth are the only power metal bands I like and this album still gets the occasional listen from me. Listening to it again as I type this and yep, it's still pretty good and very good when it comes to the acoustic moments. ---- Dreadrealm's Bandcamp with free downloads: https://dreadrealm.bandcamp.com/ (200 Free Downloads Every Month is Bandcamp's limit) Loading...
anathema_1977 Posts: 117 From: Germany	16.10.2016 - 00:40 Rating: 10 anathema_1977 Posts: 117 From: Germany Yes, this is their best. Highlights: Journey Through The Dark and the title track. OMG, back in the 90s I have really been a huge fan of this band.... Loading...