The most recent Blind Guardian albums are an incredible collage of influences, narrative and visual, and while there is a strong focus on storytelling, their most recent songs feel like a montage of entire epics, or surreal flashbacks through barely-tangible sagas. Things are big, heavy even, but they feel almost weightless.
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The perfect harmonies, polished melodies and spiraling satanic madness of Ghost‘s music feels like something out of a brilliant marketing campaign or an 80s horror/buddy roadtrip movie. The familiarity of their imagery makes it all the more entertaining as they use it to take the floor out of our expectations.
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Gojira bring space whales, a steady onslaught of rhythmic collisions, an immersive heavy and dark haze….
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To hear metal music made by the cultural owners of melodies I more often encounter being appropriated into the desert levels of videogames is magnificent in principle AND in practice. Orphaned Land’s landscapes of the messianic epic bring to mind monumental histories and disembodied fates.
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I’m only interested in the Rainbow songs that take me to distant lands on faraway stars ruled by wizards, costing those who dare visit their souls, their minds, or their youth. It’s not a real place now, and it doesn’t feel like it ever could have existed, but I can see it in the distance whenever I put on my headphones.
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Sharp, heavy, repetitive and extending infinitely into the distance, the landscape that The Sword explore in their music is peaks and valleys, forests and bare slopes, steady tumbling avalanches, and seems to grow as you explore it, crystallizing into more and more complex shapes as you listen.
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