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I agree, The Savage Poetry(2000) is one of their very best. While the majority of their stuff sounds very Helloween inspired, this album sounds very Maiden influenced. Probably their least talked about album for some reason. I,love Edguy, much more than Avantasia.

I really enjoyed Blaze's first two albums, Silicon Messiah and Tenth Dimension, released under the bandname BLAZE. He's got a new album coming out called Infinite Entanglement, a concept album. Based on the two songs I've heard it's gonna be a good one. More in the vein of those first two...

The Gift of Music is a pretty great song. I've been very critical of Dream Theater over the last few years because I was getting tired of their completely unstructured songs full of wankery and way too much sentimentalism. But after their last album and now the upcoming one, it seems like they...

I love The Tune. Classic Helloween. And I also really liked Nothing To Say. I admit it's odd but I like it. As for 'Can Do It', well, in the context of that particular album it sounds verrrrry out of place, but I now really enjoy it.

Is The Book of Souls kind of a concept album? Not like Operation Mindcrime or SSoASS, but a concept album in the same way Keeper of The Seven Keys is? The band has mentioned the Mayan theme to the album, which can obviously be see in the artwork. The most obvious songs that go with the theme...

Blasphemy! One thing though is despite the fact that I prefer Weiki's songwriting, Hansen writes a lot more songs. Including Gamma Ray. I think the reason for this is because Helloween has way more songwriters then Gamma Ray. With the Keepers albums, most was written by Hansen and Weiki. When...

I was just listening to Land of The Free, and I have to say that I've just realized it's better then either of the original Keeper records. I've always been more of a Helloween guy, but mainly the Andi Deris era. I never really understood what was sooooooooo great about the Keeper albums. When I...

Someone said XFactor was one of the cleanest sounding albums, and I disagree with that. To my ears the cleanest sounding Maiden albums are BNW and VXI. I think DoD is almost up there with them but not quite. Those two are by far the cleanest. I don't have anything against this. I love BNW and...

I'm sure it will be a very long and complicated album. With lots of wankery. God I can't stand those keyboard solos. I like DT, but that shit drives me nuts.

That's actually not a bad idea, a novelization of The Astonishing. Hopefully it wouldn't be by Kevin J Anderson though :p Now that I've been thinking about it, this sci-fi concept album by DT is actually sounding really exciting. But the double album thing worries me. With the last album I was...

But I mean in North America. If the could be as big in North America as they are in Europe, they'd be in the history books. Of metal. Not just European metal.

I know they had Ralf Scheepers at one point. But I tend to not listen to those albums simply because it makes me uncomfortable. I know. It's weird.

Yes. But the way they have such an original sound and style reminds me of why people were attracted to Maiden in the first place. BG should and could be bigger.

I found Scenes to be very dull for some reason. I put it in the same category as I&W and ADToE Dream Theater. I much prefer ToT, 6 Degrees and 8VM Dream Theater. And Awake, their best album. I don't like the title. Sounds lame, if I must say. I don't think Portnoy would allow such a title. At...

Funny how they like him cuz he can party as much as them. That's the real reason these bands stay around so long...and is why they never tour the US. They could, but they'd draw very small crowds of mostly men. But in Europe and other places they're very big and likely don't play only sausage...

I admire Blind Guardian for coming up with a really unique sound in a genre where most bands sound too alike. But as far as I know, they haven't really caught on in North America. I have a vision of them in the future being like Iron Maiden; going on giant arena tours that include North America...

DT would benefit greatly by an absence of keyboards. At least for one album. Let's have a badass guitar driven metal album.

As much as I try, I just cannot get into Stratovarius. I would like them more if they took the symphonic element out of their sound. Just too much keyboards and all that. Another popular band they share a fanbase with is Hammerfall. Of the two I prefer Hammerfall because they have more of a...

I was looking through wikipedia at their albums to see the writing credits. It appears that at some point the songwriting became mostly Tate and some random people who weren't in the band? What's up with that? Because you'd think that the other band members just woiuldnt put up with that, unless...

If not always, it has been for a long time.