[b]Blind Guardian Album update[/b]
“We are still alive and we are getting further day by day. As said, the single is done and Virgin is taking care on all release matters. The cover is created by a Russian guy called Anry and he easily can compete with Andreas Marschall´s works. You will hopefully agree with me once you see his masterpiece, but I am really optimistic that this will be the case. Describing the cover doesn´t make sense at all, so I better stop here telling nonsense. The single (called ‘And Then There Was Silence’) will be released on November 12, but before that we are going to present some smaller samples of the song to you here on the homepage ( www.blind-guardian.com ). We will also provide more shots from the studio rather soon, as we have decided to go online with some studio cams. The whole thing occurs like witchcraft to me, but it somehow seem to work. You should be able to follow our attempts to get throught the album on the computer from one of the next days on. This is a brave new world I must admit. With regard to the album production I don´t see any further delays from our side, since we work on a really tough but very precisely and well planned schedule the last months. We approxamtely need 4 more weeks to finalize all recording sessions and then will focuse on mixing for about 30 days. The lyrical topics for the songs I have sung already, just to give you a short idea are as follows: Mythology: The battle of Troy in ‘And There Was Silence’ and also what happened to Cassandra afterwards in another song.
Epical stuff: Inspired by Das Hildebrandlied I have come up with a kind of anthem about the final, fatal confrontation between father and son reported in the older original without a happy ending and tried to add a more raw battlefield atmosphere to it. The topic of course implies a link to the Mordred/Arthur dilemma. Bible: Becoming aware of oneself. Dragonlance: The Soulforged. History: Gallileo Galilei and the Sanctum Officium. I am almost done with the 7th song and have to face three more afterwards. The one I am working one has a good chance to become the opener and its working title is ‘The Answer’, which I probably will keep, as it fits well to the new lyrics. Lyrically I partly follow the ‘Bright Eyes’ and ‘And The Story Ends …’ direction on that one, but in a more escalative manner. André has to work on two and a half songs lead guitarwise and should be done short before me. There is the third choir session scheduled for next week. The session will take place outside the Twilight Hall in a smaller studio in Hamburg. This definitely will help us keeping the schedule and would also be a good insider question for another contest.”
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