![]() “We’ve picked up a lot from our own history and built a new era upon this foundation,” vocalist Hansi Kürsch explains. Three decades later, their latest offering, The God Machine, shows how to awaken the fury of youth to magical new life.Īs if they had paid a long overdue visit to the numerous highlights of their career, BLIND GUARDIAN appear to be in touch with the ghosts of their own past more than ever. In 1992, BLIND GUARDIAN released Somewhere Far Beyond, a legendary milestone of German speed metal. The God Machine represents the heart and soul of BLIND GUARDIAN’s timeless metal in the here and now, unifying the bards’ past, present and future secrets in one consistent, well thought out masterpiece. It is a gripping, addictive and brilliantly arranged album in the tradition of records with which BLIND GUARDIAN reached for the stars in the 90’s yet, by no means, is it a throwback. The God Machine marks another pinnacle in BLIND GUARDIAN’s impressive discography by not attempting to pretend it is still the nineties, yet successfully relying on the muscle memory of this period. It certainly delivers music that is not from this world. “‘Life Beyond the Spheres’ leads us to spaces unknown and places where no man has gone before. ![]() ![]() I like that, it is a very innovative song, I’m proud of this too.” I tried to bring a metal soundtrack into a cyberpunk direction, more spacey than we ever have before. Hansi grabbed that feeling, and I think now we have something new. Maybe even find a new something that wasn’t there before, I think with ‘Life Beyond the Spheres,’ I knew I wanted to go somewhere in the soundtrack direction.Īt that time, I was playing cyberpunk, so my inspiration was a little bit cyberpunk Ish. “I’m a big supporter of innovation, to bring the whole music genre forward to something else. ![]()
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