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[Conan]

Knalllåt.

[Øl]

Den første her er tøff som bare det, her snaker vi fett refreng. Elsker bassen og hvor fremtredende den er i lydbildet.

Framtredande bass = alltid win.

Måtte slenge på BoF her, ei goood stund sidan eg har hørt på denne. Har aldri vorte nokon BG-favoritt, men absolutt bra saker.

[Dick Hardy]

Har satt førsteskiva på innkjøpslista allerede! På vinnyLL. Typisk vinyl-skive.

Hehe, sikkert. Innser forresten at jeg begynner å irritere meg mer og mer over uttrykket "vinyl". Vet ikke hvorfor, men det låter så hipt. Før i tida kalte man det LP, eller rett og slett plate. Vinyl er et moderne ord som er dukka opp etter at LP blei hipt igjen etter 90-tallet...

Har vel noe å gjøre med at plater ofte blir gitt ut på CD og LP i dag. Før CD'en kom platene på LP og kassett. Da var det vel naturlig å kalle LP'ene for plate og kassett for, ja, kassett.
Trur nå je.

[Gorgar]

Men LP står jo for Long Play og sier ingenting om hva slags produkt det er. Både CD, kassett og vinyl kan være LP. "Plate" er også vagt, siden både vinyl og CD er en plate. Derfor synes jeg "vinyl" fungerer best.

Det som irriterer meg mest er når folk sier at det og det bandet har gitt ut ny CD.

[Dick Hardy]

Enig med Gorgar. "Nå skal vi spille ei ny låt fra vår nye CD". Feil, feil, FEIL!

[Affen]

Enig med Gorgar. "Nå skal vi spille ei ny låt fra vår nye CD". Feil, feil, FEIL!

Hvorfor det? Flere før i tida som sa "we're gonna play a song from our new LP" og "we've got a new LP out...", og jeg ser det som like naturlig at de idag sier "we're gonna play a song from our new CD" og "we've got a new CD out..." Nøyaktig hva er galt med det?

[Stian]

"New album" var jo det som ble mest sagt før, og sikkert fortsatt.

[Affen]

"New album" var jo det som ble mest sagt før, og sikkert fortsatt.

Kommer ihvertfall på Coverdale i farta som har sagt "LP", men vet det er flere..

[Gorgar]

Er det snakk om et album, sier man album eller LP. "CD" refererer kun til det albumet er printet på, og med tanke på at man kan printe nesten hva som helst på en CD, får man teknisk sett ingen informasjon om hva det er snakk om. For alt vi vet kan det hende bandet har gitt ut en CD med bilder av valper. Selvsagt skjønner alle hva man mener, men er man kverrulant så er man kverrulant. Sånn er det bare.

[Aslak]

Har satt førsteskiva på innkjøpslista allerede! På vinnyLL. Typisk vinyl-skive.

Den kan fort bli dyr på vinyl når du først finner den, hvertfall for et fint eksemplar. Jeg sleit når jeg samla opp skivene på vinyl hvertfall.
Alle skivene tilogmed Nightfall ble utgitt remastra med bonusspor ifjor

[Hege]

Såpass, ja? Om det er blodpris for en grei vinylutgave av den skiva, går jeg vel heller for cd.

[Joakim]

Hansi har klipt seg jo. Kort hår.

[Ivan]

I det siste har jeg begynt å høre en del på dette bandet igjen. Ble veldig skuffet over A Twist in the Myth, men når jeg hørte den igjen for tre-fire uker siden (for første gang siden den var ny) satt den som et skudd, kongeskive. Skal se skaffe meg de to første albumene snart, som er de eneste jeg mangler.

Stemte forøvrig ANATO sist, og det står jeg for fortsatt.

[Opeth82]

Battalions Of Fear

[stramvaier]

Fy f**n hvor bra The Soulforged er! Hadde forsvart en plass på hvilken som helst "Best of" BG plate

[Gorgar]

Gikk nettopp inn på hjemmesida deres og fant denne oppdateringen fra 10. november:

The last time I wrote something I promised to give the next update around Easter. Well, Easter season is a little late this year, but better late than never is my favorite saying. Here is my long promised message.

To keep this one a short but essential one: we finally have started the production of Blind Guardian studio album number nine. Frederik is literally rushing through the songs already. Who knows, this time we may deliver the finished master prior to the ultimate deadline (set by an about-to-get-insane record company after thousands of broken promises to finally deliver the new record within the next days). Well Frederik isn't Marcus, who isn't André, who most certainly is not Hansi. So there still lies trouble (i.e. delays) ahead.

Back to Frederik, back to the production: We started sometime last week and Frederik accomplished drums for some seriously tricky tracks. If I am correct he has two more tracks to go and should be finished during the next days. Altogether there are 11 songs to work on. As mentioned last time, we do have a strong amount of heavy Guardian hymns, which come along with such a harsh intensity that I am sometimes surprised myself. There is a fine balance of extremely fast songs and ultimate epic stuff. "Wheel of Time" would be one example for the last mentioned. The song contains many surprises - I am deadly honest about that, so mark my words here. Lyrically I am of course tempted to deal with Robert Jordan's great "Wheel of Time" story, one of the best fantasy series ever. If you asked me with which song the number could be compared I most probably would say "The Script for my Requiem" or "And then there was Silence". This tune does really have the potential to mess with these two songs.

As you most probably figure I am really excited about the new stuff and I cannot await to hear the final result somewhere in April 2010, when we will have finished mixing. We are targeting a late summer, early fall release, which means you still have to wait a little bit. To make the long waiting more comfortable we are at least intending to constantly provide you with information about the album's progress and supply you with small samples of noise from time to time. Right at the moment we are working on an accurate set up to make that possible. Expect something before Christmas. As it looks now I will start first vocals next Monday. Therefore I need to do some more research for proper lyrics. G.R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Michael Moorcock and so on they all knew how to write a good story or two...

Hansi

Nå er jeg virkelig spent på hva som vil gjøre at albumet blir utsatt til 2011. For det blir det. Ingen tvil om det.

[verra1349]

1. Nightfall In Middle Earth
2. Somewhere Far Beyond
3. Imaginations From The Other Side
4. A Night At The Opera
5. Tales From The Twilight World
6. Battalions Of Fear
7. Follow The Blind

[Gorgar]

Ikke hørt nyeste?

[Gorgar]

Ser ut til at albumet kommer i september hvis alt går som planlagt. Nøyaktig fire år etter forrige album, altså. Ikke verst.

Some important words right at the beginning: A small step for mankind, but a gigantic one for me. "It is finished" as people with a more pathetic attitude probably would say. For the first time in my long life I finally managed to complete a computer game!!! I have to admit that I more or less only assisted my son throughout the whole journey and all in all was of little help, but that's of minor importance I have to say. Brave and courageous I stood by his side throughout the whole quest. Such complexity, such passion, such grandeur and beauty all in one story... What an overwhelming feeling, after all. Why didn't anyone tell me before? Yes, André and Marcus tried to convince me here and there, but they should have tried harder!!! Very soon they will taste my revenge, I tell you. I am intending to play "Guitar Hero" next and once I am better than Marcus and André (shouldn't take too long) ... they are history. The game which got me hooked? "Rabbids Go Home" of course. Who needs "WOW"?

For those who are not interested in computer games (even though I doubt the existence of such silly people) I also would like to tell you what is going in the Guardian camp. We are progressing quickly! Even I, who is always last in line, can sense the end of the recording session is close at hand. Maybe another four weeks and we should be done with all recordings.

Apart from some minor guitar, bass, percussion, flutes and effect parts the time mainly will be used for vocals. I have to sing two more songs, which would be "Curse my Name" and "Song 12". As some of you figured already this hardly will be the title of the song once vocals are finished, even though we have had a live album, which carries the provoking title "Live"...

Back to "Song 12". After counting all songs (and I did that again and again) I finally figured we only have worked on eleven in total. Don't blame me, blame André. He has called it "Song 12". What can I do? Well, I do have two choices. I either call it "Song 11" from today on or I keep it as it is. To create no further confusion I call it the "Eleventh song which is called Song 12" for now. It is another nice one, to say that much.

To finish the "still- to-do-list": We will end up recordings with some gigantic choir sessions, which will take some time to be completed. Anyway, the stuff so far turned out even better than expected. Keep in mind it is me saying that and I partly have been involved. By now I assume it is no secret anymore that we twice have traveled to Prague during the last months for orchestral recordings. What can I say? It sounds brilliant. We have heavily used orchestration in "Sacred" (yes, the song will be on the album in an even longer and certainly better version) and naturally for "Wheel of Time" as well as in some other parts on the album. As probably said before, this will be our most bombastic and epic album so far. Whether there will be 8 or 9 songs on the album I do not know, by now. But each and every song has a completely different approach in comparison to each other and one compliments the other in a perfect way. Except probably for "Song 5" and "Song 10". Or was it "Song 10" and "Song 8"? I can't remember. So it won't matter, right? September you will know what I mean. We may show mercy and provide you with some small samples, before. If I don't forget. What was I talking about?

As you may have noticed we have finally started to establish our Facebook profile. For us it is the easiest way to provide you with current information in a constant mode. The page is now run by our webmasters who do have the privilege to get some first hand information directly from the studio while accompanying us or directly communicating with us via Skype (yes, I do know this modern tool, too). For us it is really impressive to see how many people have joined us within such a short amount of time. Thanks for supporting us.

We, of course, still check the forum to see what is going on there. As there were many questions about where and when we play which country on the next upcoming world tour I can only say this much: The announced shows will only be the beginning of an extensive tour marathon. Our intention for sure will be to play all continents, again. I am very positive about a Northern American tour in late 2010. But nothing is yet confirmed. As usual you will find all necessary information with regard to tour dates once they are confirmed on the homepage. As for our friends in these European countries where no shows are announced for 2010: Patience is a virtue! Do not worry we will come by in 2011. That's for sure. We of course will do everything possible to visit our friends in Asia, South America , Australia and Africa sometime in 2011 as well. But unfortunately you will have to wait for announcements a little longer, I suppose. It's just a matter of time, I promise. As for the set list and the general live production I can promise this much: we will perform a lot of stuff from the new album and we are working on some very spectacular visual effects. To be more precise: We have people working on visual effects.

Album title and album cover? We worry when we get there...

That's it from my side. Next infos will be provided by André.....just joking.

Hansi

[Odin]

"Battalions of Fear".