Live (Blind Guardian album)
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Live is the second live album by the band Blind Guardian
. It was recorded during the Blind Guardian World Tour 2002/2003 in Tokyo
, Stockholm
, Lichtenfels
, Venice
, Düsseldorf
, Milano, Firenze
, Barcelona
, San Sebastian
, Aviles
, Madrid
, Granada
, Valencia
, Bremen, Moscow
, Hamburg
, Berlin
, München, Stuttgart
.
Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres...
. It was recorded during the Blind Guardian World Tour 2002/2003 in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Lichtenfels
Lichtenfels
Lichtenfels is German placename and surname:Germany:There are two towns named Lichtenfels in Germany* Lichtenfels, Hesse* Lichtenfels, Bavaria ** Lichtenfels station** 1...
, Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
, Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
, Milano, Firenze
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, San Sebastian
San Sebastián
Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its...
, Aviles
Avilés
Avilés is a city in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main towns in the Principality of Asturias.The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, in a land that belonged to the sea, surrounded by small promontories, all of them having an altitude of less than...
, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Granada
Granada
Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...
, Valencia
Valencia (city in Spain)
Valencia or València is the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third largest city in Spain, with a population of 809,267 in 2010. It is the 15th-most populous municipality in the European Union...
, Bremen, Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, München, Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
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Disc one
- "War of Wrath" (from Nightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-Earth is a concept album by Blind Guardian, released in 1998. It is also Blind Guardian's sixth studio album.The album is based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, a book of tales from the First Age of Middle-earth, recounting the War of the Jewels. The album contains not...
) – 1:54 - "Into the Storm" (from Nightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-Earth is a concept album by Blind Guardian, released in 1998. It is also Blind Guardian's sixth studio album.The album is based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, a book of tales from the First Age of Middle-earth, recounting the War of the Jewels. The album contains not...
) – 4:52 - "Welcome to Dying" (from Tales from the Twilight WorldTales from the Twilight WorldTales from the Twilight World is the third studio album that was released in 1990 by Blind Guardian. The cover artwork was created by Andreas Marschall, who has drawn the artwork for some of Blind Guardian's other releases...
) – 5:28 - "Nightfall" (from Nightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-Earth is a concept album by Blind Guardian, released in 1998. It is also Blind Guardian's sixth studio album.The album is based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, a book of tales from the First Age of Middle-earth, recounting the War of the Jewels. The album contains not...
) – 6:20 - "The Script for my Requiem" (from Imaginations from the Other Side) – 6:38
- "Harvest of Sorrow" (from A Night at the OperaA Night at the Opera (Blind Guardian album)- Chart positions :Album – Billboard - Band :* Hansi Kürsch – lead and backing vocals* André Olbrich – lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars* Marcus Siepen – rhythm guitar* Thomas "Thomen" Stauch – drums & percussion...
) – 3:56 - "The Soulforged" (from A Night at the OperaA Night at the Opera (Blind Guardian album)- Chart positions :Album – Billboard - Band :* Hansi Kürsch – lead and backing vocals* André Olbrich – lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars* Marcus Siepen – rhythm guitar* Thomas "Thomen" Stauch – drums & percussion...
) – 6:03 - "Valhalla" (from Follow the BlindFollow the BlindFollow the Blind is the second full-length album from the German metal band Blind Guardian, released in 1989. The album is more in the vein of speed metal, compared to the style that would later define the band's unique sound...
) – 8:12 - "Majesty" (from Batallions of Fear) – 8:19
- "Mordred's Song" (from Imaginations from the Other Side) – 6:46
- "Born in a Mourning Hall" (from Imaginations from the Other Side) – 5:57
Disc two
- "Under the Ice" (from A Night at the OperaA Night at the Opera (Blind Guardian album)- Chart positions :Album – Billboard - Band :* Hansi Kürsch – lead and backing vocals* André Olbrich – lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars* Marcus Siepen – rhythm guitar* Thomas "Thomen" Stauch – drums & percussion...
) – 6:15 - "Bright EyesBright Eyes (Blind Guardian song)"Bright Eyes" is a single by German metal band Blind Guardian released in 1995. It was only released in Japan through the Japanese recording label Victor Entertainment and has the same cover art as the forthcoming "Mr. Sandman" single . It has a slightly different track listing than "Mr. Sandman"...
" (from Imaginations from the Other SideImaginations from the Other SideImaginations from the Other Side is the fifth studio album by Blind Guardian that was released in 1995. The atmosphere of this album is darker in comparison to their earlier works, such as Battalions of Fear, which had a relatively happy tone...
) – 5:26 - "Punishment Divine" (from A Night at the OperaA Night at the Opera (Blind Guardian album)- Chart positions :Album – Billboard - Band :* Hansi Kürsch – lead and backing vocals* André Olbrich – lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars* Marcus Siepen – rhythm guitar* Thomas "Thomen" Stauch – drums & percussion...
) – 6:21 - "The Bard's Song (In the Forest)The Bard's Song (In the Forest)"The Bard's Song " is a single by the German power metal band Blind Guardian, released in 2003. It contains 5 different versions of this, one of their most popular songs, which originally appeared on the album Somewhere Far Beyond....
" (from Somewhere Far BeyondSomewhere Far BeyondSomewhere Far Beyond is the fourth studio album by German power metal act Blind Guardian.It was released in 1992 and produced by Kalle Trapp...
) – 7:48 - "Imaginations from the Other Side" (from Imaginations from the Other SideImaginations from the Other SideImaginations from the Other Side is the fifth studio album by Blind Guardian that was released in 1995. The atmosphere of this album is darker in comparison to their earlier works, such as Battalions of Fear, which had a relatively happy tone...
) – 9:40 - "Lost in the Twilight Hall" (from Tales from the Twilight WorldTales from the Twilight WorldTales from the Twilight World is the third studio album that was released in 1990 by Blind Guardian. The cover artwork was created by Andreas Marschall, who has drawn the artwork for some of Blind Guardian's other releases...
) – 7:09 - "A Past and Future SecretA Past and Future Secret"A Past and Future Secret" is the first cd single from German power metal band Blind Guardian, and the third track on their 1995 album Imaginations From the Other Side. It is an acoustic song, and its guitarwork and lyrical themes strongly evoke the Arthurian legends cycle, the end of which it...
" (from Imaginations from the Other SideImaginations from the Other SideImaginations from the Other Side is the fifth studio album by Blind Guardian that was released in 1995. The atmosphere of this album is darker in comparison to their earlier works, such as Battalions of Fear, which had a relatively happy tone...
) – 4:31 - "Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)" (from Nightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-Earth is a concept album by Blind Guardian, released in 1998. It is also Blind Guardian's sixth studio album.The album is based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, a book of tales from the First Age of Middle-earth, recounting the War of the Jewels. The album contains not...
) – 5:52 - "Journey Through the Dark" (from Somewhere Far BeyondSomewhere Far BeyondSomewhere Far Beyond is the fourth studio album by German power metal act Blind Guardian.It was released in 1992 and produced by Kalle Trapp...
) – 5:43 - "Lord of the Rings" (from Tales from the Twilight WorldTales from the Twilight WorldTales from the Twilight World is the third studio album that was released in 1990 by Blind Guardian. The cover artwork was created by Andreas Marschall, who has drawn the artwork for some of Blind Guardian's other releases...
) – 4:34 - "Mirror MirrorMirror Mirror (song)"Mirror Mirror" is a single by the German power metal band Blind Guardian, released in 1998. Cover art was painted by Andreas Marshall. The song was composed for the 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth. Lyrics of "Mirror Mirror", based on J. R. R...
" (from Nightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-EarthNightfall in Middle-Earth is a concept album by Blind Guardian, released in 1998. It is also Blind Guardian's sixth studio album.The album is based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, a book of tales from the First Age of Middle-earth, recounting the War of the Jewels. The album contains not...
) – 6:06
Outtakes
In 2004, outtakes for this live album (a third disc, in essence) were released in mp3 format via Blind-Guardian.com, using the then-new BitTorrent technology.Protection
The european version, released by Virgin is protected against copy whereas the US release by Century Media is not.Band members
- Hansi KürschHansi KürschHans Jürgen Kürsch, better known as Hansi Kürsch is a German musician, the lead vocalist and lyricist of power metal band Blind Guardian. Together with André Olbrich, he is also the principal songwriter for the band. He was also the bassist in Blind Guardian until the 1998 album Nightfall in...
– vocals - André OlbrichAndré OlbrichAndré Olbrich is the lead guitarist of the German power metal band Blind Guardian. He is one of the band's founders together with vocalist Hansi Kürsch, and serves as one of its main songwriters....
– lead guitars and backing vocals - Marcus SiepenMarcus SiepenMarcus Siepen is one of two guitarists in the power metal band Blind Guardian. For the biggest percentage of Blind Guardian's songs, particularly in more recent years, he has almost strictly played rhythm guitar, with most lead and solo work being performed by André Olbrich.-Personal:Siepen is...
– rhythm guitars and backing vocals - Thomas "Thomen" Stauch – drums
Guest musicians
- Oliver HolzwarthOliver HolzwarthOliver Holzwarth is a German bass guitarist. He was born in Munich, Germany. He plays bass in Rhapsody of Fire along with his brother, drummer Alex Holzwarth. Oliver has been the live/studio bass player for Blind Guardian since 1998...
– bass and backing vocals - Michael Schüren – keyboards and backing vocals
- Alex HolzwarthAlex HolzwarthAlex Holzwarth was born on 4 October 1968 in Landshut, Germany and is a professional drummer, and current member of italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He is also the brother of the band's bassist Oliver Holzwarth....
– drums
Personnel
- Charlie BauerfeindCharlie BauerfeindCharlie Bauerfeind is a German sound engineer and producer who has worked mostly with power metal bands such as Angra, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Primal Fear, Rage, HammerFall and Saxon....
- production, mixing - Alexander "Chester" Kalb - recording
- Andreas Marschall - cover painting
- Nikolay "Dr. Venom" Simkin - artwork
- Dennis "Sir" Kostroman - artwork
- Axel Jusseit - photography
- Hans Martin Issler - photography
- Buffo Schnädelbach - photography
- Sascha Wischnewski - photography