A Twist in the Myth

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A Twist in the Myth
A Twist in the Myth cover
Studio album by Blind Guardian
Released September 1, 2006
Genre Power Metal
Length 51:31
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer(s) Charlie Bauerfeind
Professional reviews
Blind Guardian chronology
A Night at the Opera
(2002)		 A Twist in the Myth
(2006)


A Twist in the Myth is the eighth studio album by the German power metal band Blind Guardian. It was originally set to be released on September 5, 2006, but Nuclear Blast changed the release date to September 1, 2006. The promo version of the album leaked on July 2, 2006. The retail version of the album leaked in August of 2006 with "Dead Sound of Misery" and the English interview.

The album was released in several different formats: a normal version, a digipack version with bonus track and bonus CD, and a limited edition book-version. The book contains the digipack, along with a guitar pick, booklet and certificate of authenticity and autographs.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "This Will Never End" – 5:07
  2. "Otherland" – 5:14
  3. "Turn the Page" – 4:16
  4. "Fly" – 5:43
  5. "Carry the Blessed Home" – 4:03
  6. "Another Stranger Me" – 4:36
  7. "Straight Through the Mirror" – 5:48
  8. "Lionheart" – 4:15
  9. "Skalds and Shadows" – 3:13
  10. "The Edge" – 4:27
  11. "The New Order" – 4:49
  12. "All the King's Horses" – 4:13 (Japanese Bonus Track)
  13. "Dead Sound of Misery" – 5:18 (Digipak Bonus Track)
  • Digipack Bonus CD
  1. Interview (Deutsch)
  2. Interview (English)
  3. Blind Guardian Media Player
  • DLP Bonus Tracks
  1. "Market Square" (Demo) – 5:51
  • "Dead Sound of Misery" is an alternative, darker version of "Fly"
  • "All the King's Horses" will also be available on a single which will be released in early 2007.
  • "Market Square" is the demo version of "Straight Through the Mirror" and is only available on the DLP version of the album.

[edit] Lyrical references

  • "This Will Never End" is inspired by Walter Moers' Wild Ride Through the Night.
  • "Otherland" is based on Tad Williams' Otherland series of novels.
  • "Turn the Page" is about the Wicca-Religion and the ritual of renewal.
  • "Fly" contains references to Peter Pan and was inspired by the film Finding Neverland.
  • "Carry the Blessed Home" is about Roland the Gunslinger at the end of Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
  • "Another Stranger Me" portrays what is going on inside the mind of a person with multiple personalities who becomes aware of his other self.
  • "Straight through the Mirror" tells, how dreams can change very quickly - it's about the importance of dreams in general too.
  • "Lionheart" is about Ulysses and his travels to Hades.
  • "Skalds and Shadows" is about the tales of Old Norse Skalds
  • "The Edge" is about St. Paul and his version of Christ.
  • "The New Order" deals with the necessity of changes.
  • "Dead Sound of Misery" is the dark version of Fly and lyrically an apocalyptic vision.

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[edit] Personnel

Guest Musicians

[edit] Chart positions

Germany: #4

Sweden: #10

Austria: #19

Japan: #21

USA: #288

USA Billboard Top Independent Albums: #21

USA Billboard Top Heatseekers: #13

Switzerland: #27

Finland: #30

[edit] External links

Blind Guardian
Hansi Kürsch | André Olbrich | Marcus Siepen | Frederik Ehmke
Thomas "Thomen" Stauch | Markus Dörk | Christoph Theissen | Hans-Peter Frey
Discography
Demo albums as Lucifer's Heritage: Symphonies of Doom | Battalions of Fear
Studio albums: Battalions of Fear | Follow the Blind | Tales from the Twilight World | Somewhere Far Beyond | Imaginations from the Other Side | Nightfall in Middle-Earth | A Night at the Opera | A Twist in the Myth
Live albums: Tokyo Tales | Live
Compilations: The Forgotten Tales
Singles: A Past and Future Secret | Bright Eyes | Mr. Sandman | Mirror Mirror | And Then There Was Silence | The Bard's Song (In the Forest) | Fly
Videos and DVDs: Imaginations Through the Looking Glass
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