Blind Guardian fans have grown accustomed to waiting long periods between the band's studio albums, which these masters of German progressive power metal tend to deliver only every four years or so -- much like World Cups, curiously enough. That was precisely the gap separating 2002's A Night at the Opera, which dismayed some longtime fans with its nearly symphonic, unusually complicated compositions, and 2006's A Twist in the Myth, which establishes something of a middle ground between that trend and the group's slightly more approachable earlier material.
01 This Will Never End 02 Otherland 03 Turn The Page 04 Fly 05 Carry The Blessed 06 Another Stranger 07 Straight Through 08 Lionheart 09 Skalds & Shadows 10 The Edge 11 The New Order 12 Dead Sound