Masterplan - Masterplan
Tracklist
01. Spirit Never Die02. Enlighten Me
03. Kind Hearted Light
04. Crystal Night
05. Soulburn
06. Heroes
07. Sail On
08. Into The Light
09. Crawling From Hell
10. Bleeding Eyes
11. When Love Comes Close
12. Through Thick And Thin [Japanese bonus]
13. The Kid Rocks On [Japanese bonus]
Line-up
Jørn Lande - vocals
Roland Grapow - guitars
Uli Kusch - drums
Jan-Sören Eckert - bass
Axel Mackenrott - keyboards
Guest musicians
Michael Kiske - vocals
Janne Viljami Wirman - keyboards
Ferdy Doernberg - keyboards
Jürgen Attig - bass
Jørn Lande - vocals
Roland Grapow - guitars
Uli Kusch - drums
Jan-Sören Eckert - bass
Axel Mackenrott - keyboards
Guest musicians
Michael Kiske - vocals
Janne Viljami Wirman - keyboards
Ferdy Doernberg - keyboards
Jürgen Attig - bass
Additional info
Produced by Andy Sneap and Masterplan.All music and lyrics written by Masterplan except track #8 (music written by Masterplan, lyrics by Rainer Laws).
Songs arranged by Masterplan.
Recorded by Andy Sneap at Crazy Cat Studio, Hamburg.
Mixed by Mikko Karmila at Finnvox Studio, Helsinki.
Mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studio.
Cover and band logo by Thomas Ewerhard.
Guest review by
Ghost_Sentinel
Ghost_Sentinel
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Masterplan gives us their debut album. First of all, just let me say that Masterplan is not warmed up Helloween or Ark stuffs. It's a complete new fusion between Roland Grapow's guitars and Uli Kusch's drums with the incredible voice of Jorn Lande. Great songs, with deep atmospheres. Sometimes near the metal FM, songs like 'Into the light' or 'Soulburn' smell totally fresh easy compositions, but so wonderfull for the ears. Every melodic part of the album is a slap on your face cause Jorn's voice is always on the mood and very strong. The wheel feeling of the band is going and gives a best result for that category of metal. 'Bleeding eyes' is so oriental and deep, 'Crawling from hell' takes you in a complete land of fury. A great album for people who need a good metal journey. Read more ›› |
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Near perfection...This one never gets old to me. And with every listen a different song pops out as current favorite of mine. 
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It is Masterplan's best album so far. Every song is different. I like this one the best. 
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Posts: 2955 Written by wh1te603 on 19.03.2010 at 04:31 Exctly! This is power metal at its best imo. Masterplan's works are by far the most enjoyable pieces of Power metal out there. =D And this album stays in the top, probably my alltime favorite in the genre.
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This album defines what power metal should be like, every song memorable, and not super cheesy like a lot of power metal bands tend to be. songs like sail on, heroes, spirit never dies, and crystal night are some of my favorites although i love the entire album and i just discovered it this week
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My favourite album of Masterplan and the one I consider the most inspired and powerful. Favourite tracks: Spirit Never Die, Enlighten Me, Sail On, Crawling From Hell, When Love Comes Close.
---- "And we are not who we think we are We are who we're afraid to be" - Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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An album where Jörn Lande puts more value as other, because he is big name in metal, and album artwork its a bit Rinbowish if you ask me and in my version was Stairway to Heaven . Nice cover
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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The Dio-isms are there of course, but Jørn also does a pretty good David Coverdale on "When Love Comes Close".
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The sample driven drums annoy me sometimes and I feel like the songs get a bit flat by the end but it's an excellent record. Why have I been sleeping on this for so long...
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A very solid debut, and the best thing about it is the vocals, with my favourite songs being "Soulburn", "Kind Hearted Light" and "Spirit Never Die".
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Posts: 8630 Written by AndyMetalFreak on 05.02.2022 at 19:26 Yeah this is one of my favourite power metal albums, and Jorn's vocals are a big reason why. Kind Hearted Light, Crystal Night, Sail On and Crawling Through Hell are the top picks for me, although aside from the closer I think they're all really strong
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Posts: 6613 Written by musclassia on 05.02.2022 at 19:28 The closer is the weakest song here for me too, your right, the rest of the songs are decent, it's an album I have taken an instant liking to.
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Forgot how good this album was. Most songs here are high quality PM with great hooks and Jorns singing is spot on. Maybe the album gets a bit repetetive at times though
---- Everything's twice as bright with money in your hands
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This will always be one my my alltime favorite records. Still remember when it came out and how much in awe I was. And here I am still playing it in 2026 and loving it
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