Happens with everything from Blind Guardian, they have that unique style that is always out of the mainstream heavy metal movement. They are loved by many but not the cup of others.
I've always said that while 'Nightfall in Middle-Earth' is arguably their best and most creative effort, I've always believed 'Somewhere Far Beyond' is the DEFINITIVE Blind Guardian album that embraces the thrashier speed metal origins and the power metal epicness they would embrace.
For me is that he will always find ways to go to any place and find accessibility. Advocating for blind people is important. He's is de guardian of the blind
I actually quite like when bands do this. For me it's really interesting to see how they interpret their own songs years later with all the wisdom and experience behind them.These projects might not always turn out great, but I'm always curious to hear them.
Yeah, a lot of people don't like re-recordings, but I think when they're done right and not just a cash-grab, it is like a different flavor of the album. I thought "Time What Is Time" and "Journey Through the Dark" were a little weaker than the original, but all the other songs were cool hearing a fuller, thicker sound. The middle of the album improved a bit over the originals in my opinion.
My forever favorite Blind Guardian album, a power metal classic in the history books alongside Helloween Keepers pt 1 and 2, Gamma Ray- Land of the Free, Stratovarius- Visions, Grave Digger- Tunes of War, Hammerfall- Legacy of Kings, and others.
Legacy of the Kings from Hammerfall??? Jesus Christ, look at your ears my friend!! Glory to the Brave of course!! No doubt about it. Also Stratovarius have better albums than Visions, like Dreamspace, Episode and Fourth Dimension But ok these ones are all very close among them.. But Glory to the Brave is far away better than anything else from Hammerfall..
Amazingly done! And here I was thinking "wow can't wait to hear the new version of Somewhere far beyond, but wait, there's also The Bard's Song The Hobbit, Time what is time, journey through the dark, Theatre of pain..." This is going to be epic!!!
Love this! It was great to see some shots of Thomen in the older footage. That put a smile my face. Just shows you guys still respect his history in the band.
But how does it sounds even better after 32 years… BG are just too good! Maybe the only re-recording so far in my life that I love better than the original! And these vocals of Hansi in the beginning❤❤❤ Why is he not using this technique/singing this way more often😮 Already ordered the album!
@@robinanwaldtno, it’s not. It’s just too close and too good. It is re-recorded - or at least 90% of the stuff :) Was listening to this song for years and years, so I have a sensitive ear, ahah. The chorus is remixed though and quite amazed how good it blends with the new sound. Nowadays productions/mixings can make miracles❤ P.S You can’t be serious about the opening track - everything in it is different - the pronouncement, the push in the words, for example “wAIting for me” and the maturity and vibrato in the voice :) Really surprised that you can’t make the difference even with unarmed ear. And yes, the new recording is better.
First I was like: do we really need a rerecording of somewhere far beyond? And then I heard hansi sing and the way he sounds here blew my mind… I really love this new version ❤
I'm very happy that they decided to dedicate a video to this song! "Somewhere far beyond" was my first Blind Guardian album and will always be my favorite album (very, very closely followed by "Imaginations..."). "Quest for Tanelorn" was one of my absolute favorites from the beginning and I always had the feeling that this song didn't get the level of popularity it deserved.
Spectacular!!! This is one of the first songs I ever heard from Blind Guardian where I knew I had finally found the sound I was searching for. When that first divine choir chorus kicked in, I was a fan for life! This is absolutely the perfect song from the back catalogue to polish up with a brand new recording! The heroes of this tragic tale may be long gone, but Blind Guardian has never lost their way!
Thanks for all these years. Your music is a part of our lives and that's why we LOVE all that you create, all the concerts you offer to us, the fans and the public and all the magic that emanates from your incredible songs ❤
I love Somewhere Far Beyond, from my point of view the best of all, this re recording is astonishing, great vocal and guitar lines, I’m looking forward to hearing the full album revisited. Hansi’s voice is wonderful.
The Quest For Tanelorn Is An Absolutely Awesome Great Outstanding Straight Up Kick Ass Rock N Roll Song By BLIND GUARDIAN And Totally Rocks This Song Completely Kicks Major Ass And Needs To Be Fully Cranked Up All The Way To Full Maximum Volume. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎸🎸🎸🎤🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Oh how i loved this song... ...and i was sweet 23 years.... Time, where has the time gone? Everything became different, Only blind guardian remained unique...! \ ❤️ /
I listen to this New revisited of this amazing and respectfully Metal hymn called The Quest for Tanelorn... wow... it brings me so Many memories in the middle of 90's when me and metalheads Friends and really that's incredible for me... the New recording is brutal... Somewhere Far Beyond is inside my Top 10 of Best Metal Albums over the Earth, I compare this album with the same level Like Metal classics albums such Painkiller from Judas, Rust un Peace from Megadeth, The Number of the Beast from Maiden and over all, the amazing Master Of Puppets from Metallica...
Somewhere Far Beyond is one of the most important albums for me. Man, how I loved it when it was released. So many nostalgic feelings. The Quest for Tanelorn has always been one of my faves (besides Somewhere Far Beyond and Theatre of Pain). But to be honest this revisted version does not sound "right" for me. Production is great, but it does not carry the spirit of those good old days. A fantastic song and for new fans surely a great thing, but man, I prefer listening to the original stuff. Rock on!
Yes, it's technically improved, it's probably on a higher level - but in the original you just feel Hansi's hunger and anger in the voice and that's what captured me back in 1996 when I first heard this album. The new version doesn't have it, you just re-create that feel, it's a certain moment in time. To me.... ok, this was basically the last BG album I loved completely from start to finish but re-recording albums like Twisted Sister or whoever... I don't get it, sorry.
When I was a kid, I used to say that the only thing that made me glad I was living in this age was Star Wars. The film became part of my identity, and without it I would have been a completely different person. A few months ago I realised that there was another thing that had the same effect on me: the Blind Guardian. I watch this video and I feel heartbroken. The black-and-white imagery, the way I see the old happy pictures side by side with the serious faces of today... I don't know whether I feel more sorry for them or for myself that time has passed. What I do know is that once this band or one of its members is gone, the world will be a worse place, a lesser place.
@@StygianSaviour they said the And Then There Was Silence rerecording was a full rerecording too which was also a lie. The instrumental track, guitar tones etc are clearly the original remixed.
Actually, there is no need for a re-recording since there is already a remixed re-release version of the album available. However, nice to have it now with a much thicker production, more defined sounding and vocals put more to the foreground 🤘🎤🎶
@@robinanwaldt it is not the same, the vocals do not sound as good. Fine, but not as the original. same with instruments, its like a cheap version of a better song.
I was only 5 years old when the original was released, but looking at this old footage, and having listened to SFB to death since discovering the bards, seeing this makes me so happy!
Blind Guardian made an album that was filled with all this symphonic stuff. It discouraged me from buying any of their albums. I would sure like to know which album had this song on it - it is great
I'm loving this song that brought me to the book as well. Glad to see this mixed with the old footages reminding me that Kai appeared also on this magic album. I almost forgot this.
I love the Songs since it came out.... The whole album. The only classic heavy metal I bought in the last years (when they did a rerelease)... But honestly... I would wish for an fantasy-video 😆😆😆❤
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The fact that they included footage with Thomen, makes my heart really happy! 🤗
One of the best drummers out there!
I think they have a good relationship. I hope so.
and footage with Kai 4:54
@@Questmetalband Yeah, he was the lead guitar on the original track!
@@carlosluismendez7392 Thomen joined them for some retrospective videos a few years ago, for instance th-cam.com/video/0VugxcUccts/w-d-xo.html
We must be very happy, we had the privilege of growing up listening to Blind Guardian. Thanks for the magic! ⚔️
It's amazing that Hansi still sounds and sings as great as back then. I loved this version. I'll definitely get this album.
His voice is truly beautiful and phenomenal, and sounds more mature.
Exactly! A must to album for sure!The maturity in his voice here is phenomenal
A new album?
@@metalmanny666no they just recorded they old album from 92
@@u.s.m.c.fewproudthemarines2987 oh really? Is it gonna have a Blu-ray release?
This album is criminally underated. A masterpiece that is not talked enough. This news caught me off guard and I could not be happier.
Happens with everything from Blind Guardian, they have that unique style that is always out of the mainstream heavy metal movement. They are loved by many but not the cup of others.
I've always said that while 'Nightfall in Middle-Earth' is arguably their best and most creative effort, I've always believed 'Somewhere Far Beyond' is the DEFINITIVE Blind Guardian album that embraces the thrashier speed metal origins and the power metal epicness they would embrace.
One very important thing to me of Blind Guardian is that they always keep heaviness. Long Live Blind Guardian!🤘🤘🤘
For me is that he will always find ways to go to any place and find accessibility. Advocating for blind people is important. He's is de guardian of the blind
I simply LOVE the mature touch to this song. Still great, after all this years.
How long have they been touring together, since late 80s? 😂
So nice seeing Kai there back in those days
My favorite BG album getting a fresh coat of paint. Can’t wait!
Fantastic. Proof that Blind Guardian is the best metal band EVER. Its just that simple. THE BARDS FOREVER!
I actually quite like when bands do this. For me it's really interesting to see how they interpret their own songs years later with all the wisdom and experience behind them.These projects might not always turn out great, but I'm always curious to hear them.
Yeah, a lot of people don't like re-recordings, but I think when they're done right and not just a cash-grab, it is like a different flavor of the album. I thought "Time What Is Time" and "Journey Through the Dark" were a little weaker than the original, but all the other songs were cool hearing a fuller, thicker sound. The middle of the album improved a bit over the originals in my opinion.
My forever favorite Blind Guardian album, a power metal classic in the history books alongside Helloween Keepers pt 1 and 2, Gamma Ray- Land of the Free, Stratovarius- Visions, Grave Digger- Tunes of War, Hammerfall- Legacy of Kings, and others.
Me too, Nightfall...ranked 2nd, along with Imaginations...
Legacy of the Kings from Hammerfall??? Jesus Christ, look at your ears my friend!! Glory to the Brave of course!! No doubt about it.
Also Stratovarius have better albums than Visions, like Dreamspace, Episode and Fourth Dimension But ok these ones are all very close among them..
But Glory to the Brave is far away better than anything else from Hammerfall..
Rhapsody also
@afandisetiawan6075 yes, Power of the Dragonflame
Amazingly done! And here I was thinking "wow can't wait to hear the new version of Somewhere far beyond, but wait, there's also The Bard's Song The Hobbit, Time what is time, journey through the dark, Theatre of pain..." This is going to be epic!!!
Love this! It was great to see some shots of Thomen in the older footage. That put a smile my face. Just shows you guys still respect his history in the band.
They keep in touch with Thomen, still are good friends.
Stauch hits had something unique important part of their sound back then!..
But how does it sounds even better after 32 years… BG are just too good! Maybe the only re-recording so far in my life that I love better than the original! And these vocals of Hansi in the beginning❤❤❤ Why is he not using this technique/singing this way more often😮 Already ordered the album!
Same feeling!!!! And I cant believe how Hansi's voice is even better too!
@@ivanivan5511Exactly!
The 2012 versions of Valhalla, In The Forest, and The Hobbit are also re-recordings that are better than the originals
@@robinanwaldtno, it’s not. It’s just too close and too good. It is re-recorded - or at least 90% of the stuff :) Was listening to this song for years and years, so I have a sensitive ear, ahah. The chorus is remixed though and quite amazed how good it blends with the new sound. Nowadays productions/mixings can make miracles❤
P.S You can’t be serious about the opening track - everything in it is different - the pronouncement, the push in the words, for example “wAIting for me” and the maturity and vibrato in the voice :) Really surprised that you can’t make the difference even with unarmed ear. And yes, the new recording is better.
@@KiroProstotoAs said elsewhere, you’re right😅
First I was like: do we really need a rerecording of somewhere far beyond? And then I heard hansi sing and the way he sounds here blew my mind… I really love this new version ❤
Thank you for not doing crazy stuff like what Manowar was doing with their re-recordings.
I'm very happy that they decided to dedicate a video to this song!
"Somewhere far beyond" was my first Blind Guardian album and will always be my favorite album (very, very closely followed by "Imaginations..."). "Quest for Tanelorn" was one of my absolute favorites from the beginning and I always had the feeling that this song didn't get the level of popularity it deserved.
25 years in my playlists: still the same thrill. Thank you BG !
How can they sound so much better after all these years!!??
1. Great Musicians 2. Modern Production Techniques
@@robinanwaldt the vocals are definitely NOT the same
@@PabloLink74 Oh, sorry, I meant to delete that comment😅
You’re right of course.
Brilliant album by the greatest band of all time. I can't wait to hear the rest of it!
I really liked that they have made such a cool video for this one with all these old footages - including the moments with Kai and Trapp
Chorus is really Queen inspired, love it. ;) The only thing i miss in modern metal music is bit of bass guitar, i having hard time hearing it at all.
Spectacular!!! This is one of the first songs I ever heard from Blind Guardian where I knew I had finally found the sound I was searching for. When that first divine choir chorus kicked in, I was a fan for life! This is absolutely the perfect song from the back catalogue to polish up with a brand new recording! The heroes of this tragic tale may be long gone, but Blind Guardian has never lost their way!
Love that they stayed so close to the original
Thanks for all these years. Your music is a part of our lives and that's why we LOVE all that you create, all the concerts you offer to us, the fans and the public and all the magic that emanates from your incredible songs ❤
So many masterpieces through the years. Hail Guardian!
Will always treasure this song
This is great but I like more the dynamic in the old recording.
I love Somewhere Far Beyond, from my point of view the best of all, this re recording is astonishing, great vocal and guitar lines, I’m looking forward to hearing the full album revisited. Hansi’s voice is wonderful.
Best videoclip of all time, long live BG
Muito bom trabalho e a transição da imagem do Thomen pro Frederik foi um toque de classe e elegância absurdo.
Always thought they should re-record their first four albums, and this does not disappoint
Excellent! Musically, lyrically...Great vocals as usually
The Quest For Tanelorn Is An Absolutely Awesome Great Outstanding Straight Up Kick Ass Rock N Roll Song By BLIND GUARDIAN And Totally Rocks This Song Completely Kicks Major Ass And Needs To Be Fully Cranked Up All The Way To Full Maximum Volume. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎸🎸🎸🎤🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Oh how i loved this song...
...and i was sweet 23 years....
Time, where has the time gone?
Everything became different,
Only blind guardian remained unique...! \ ❤️ /
I listen to this New revisited of this amazing and respectfully Metal hymn called The Quest for Tanelorn... wow... it brings me so Many memories in the middle of 90's when me and metalheads Friends and really that's incredible for me... the New recording is brutal... Somewhere Far Beyond is inside my Top 10 of Best Metal Albums over the Earth, I compare this album with the same level Like Metal classics albums such Painkiller from Judas, Rust un Peace from Megadeth, The Number of the Beast from Maiden and over all, the amazing Master Of Puppets from Metallica...
One of the first tracks I heard back in 1996, at the age of six 🤘🤘
For what you dooing this? Its alredy been IDEAL!!
found this off an ad lol, Ive been blessed
Do you know their stuff? Incredible band. Howay the lads!
¿Cómo es posible que recién conozca este grupo? Ta excelente 👌🏼
Una de las mejores bandas, amigo 🤟
Que suertudo! Lo que estás por escuchar!!!
Absolute Legends!!! I love this Band!!!!
Clássico, alguém do Brasil 🇧🇷✌🏾🎶✨
Sempre tem kkkkkk
o álbum promete
Dank Blind Guardian´s "Somewhere far Beyond" kam ich zum AD&D und zu meiner Frau ❤🤘
Somewhere Far Beyond is one of the most important albums for me. Man, how I loved it when it was released. So many nostalgic feelings. The Quest for Tanelorn has always been one of my faves (besides Somewhere Far Beyond and Theatre of Pain). But to be honest this revisted version does not sound "right" for me. Production is great, but it does not carry the spirit of those good old days. A fantastic song and for new fans surely a great thing, but man, I prefer listening to the original stuff. Rock on!
yyyyaaaassss!!
What can I say? Classic song, great band 🤘
Legends.
Yes, it's technically improved, it's probably on a higher level - but in the original you just feel Hansi's hunger and anger in the voice and that's what captured me back in 1996 when I first heard this album. The new version doesn't have it, you just re-create that feel, it's a certain moment in time. To me.... ok, this was basically the last BG album I loved completely from start to finish but re-recording albums like Twisted Sister or whoever... I don't get it, sorry.
Holy crap. This sounds great!
Saw them this year for the first time, considering how rarely they tour the US, probably the only time I'll ever see them.
Awesome!!... and Kai!!
Brutais como sempre, muito perfeito!🤘
Metal is forever.
When I was a kid, I used to say that the only thing that made me glad I was living in this age was Star Wars. The film became part of my identity, and without it I would have been a completely different person. A few months ago I realised that there was another thing that had the same effect on me: the Blind Guardian. I watch this video and I feel heartbroken. The black-and-white imagery, the way I see the old happy pictures side by side with the serious faces of today... I don't know whether I feel more sorry for them or for myself that time has passed. What I do know is that once this band or one of its members is gone, the world will be a worse place, a lesser place.
Absolute Masterpiece ❤️cheers from Argentina.🇦🇷
Well that just blew me away
BG Never disappoints !! Best rock receipe of the week.
Love how they never repeat themselves! This is awesome.
So... They never repeat themselves, so they are re-recorning stuff. What?
It's just hansi singing over remixes of the original tracks lol
@@tylercherneski1805 check your sources, or... just listen. It's fully re-recorded. Even Nuclearblast says it's re-recorded.
@@tylercherneski1805 or... Did I just missed sarcasm... Sorry then)
@@StygianSaviour they said the And Then There Was Silence rerecording was a full rerecording too which was also a lie. The instrumental track, guitar tones etc are clearly the original remixed.
Yeah, this is fantastic. Cannot wait for the full release!
Actually, there is no need for a re-recording since there is already a remixed re-release version of the album available. However, nice to have it now with a much thicker production, more defined sounding and vocals put more to the foreground 🤘🎤🎶
@@robinanwaldt it is not the same, the vocals do not sound as good. Fine, but not as the original. same with instruments, its like a cheap version of a better song.
@@Hammerhansfo Oops, missed deleting a comment. Yeah, I was wrong, it definitely is a new recording.
Absolutely EPIC!😍😈💪👏🤘
Fantastic, now we have two amazing versions of this Epic song 🚬
Now THAT is a re-recording I really look forward to!
I was only 5 years old when the original was released, but looking at this old footage, and having listened to SFB to death since discovering the bards, seeing this makes me so happy!
shivers
Didn't like it when Manowar did it. I didn't like it when Megadeth did it....
This? This is GOOD. ❤
Did what??
Absolutely Awesome!!!!
Blind Guardian made an album that was filled with all this symphonic stuff. It discouraged me from buying any of their albums. I would sure like to know which album had this song on it - it is great
The album is “Somewhere Far Beyond” - 1992.
@@tommelaniphy4882 Thank you for that, I will look for it.
I saw them in Montreal a the Olympia, a small venue that barely fit 2000 persons, including the staff. Fantastic show🤟
A lot of metal bands would be VERY happy to attract 2000 people ;)
What an incredible new version of an already amazing song! Really looking forward to hearing the rest of the album!
Maravilloso !!! !🤩 I loved the video 🔥. The best part was seeing the young Guardians alternated with the current ones. We will always miss you Thomen.
I'm loving this song that brought me to the book as well. Glad to see this mixed with the old footages reminding me that Kai appeared also on this magic album. I almost forgot this.
BLind Guardian needs to release a DVD or some content with these rare studio images!
...best Blind Guardian album ever
Gracias amigos por tanta música. Larga vida a los Bardos!
Loved the video! Long live BG!! Cheers from Chile 🇨🇱
This is awesome 🎉
Awesome rerecording!!!
aaaaaand pre-ordered! can't wait
Muy bien tronnn heavy siempre
Amazing! They are like wine
Awesome!
Would have been nice if they included the full sets of the live shows, not just the SFB part. Never can have too much live Blind Guardian ;)
Gracias!! ❤🤘
I love the Songs since it came out.... The whole album. The only classic heavy metal I bought in the last years (when they did a rerelease)... But honestly... I would wish for an fantasy-video 😆😆😆❤
Blind Guardian 🤘
This guitartone ist amazing 🤤
Very nice sound quality! Good choice to ditch the mono compatibility and embrace the side channel.
WoW!!!
great band) hello from Russia)
Esta banda es la mera verdolaga 🤘🏼😎
Insanely good.
6 минут счастья! ❤❤❤
Best heavy metal band ever!!!
Excellent song Love it!!!!!!!
Die gute alte Zeit 😭🖤
Very good
Fucking amazing! Thanks bards!
Nice, but I vastly prefer the original recording. This isn't as intense with the vocals, dry drums in comparison and feels stiffer. But still good.
Soooo well done! Hansi is THE SAME