I never gave this album a chance (nor The Wicked Symphony album), It took me some time to unpack the album and give it a spin. Then, a few days ago, I put my Ipod on shuffle while riding my bike then "
Stargazers" popped up. My first thought was:
"oh no not Avantasia.." "The Scarecrow" is still haunting me. However, I couldn't stop traffic, so I had to listen to the first track of the album. Now, I really like that song and I'm willing to give the album a chance ... I think.
I'm very fond of the beginning and I love the: "Oh craving devour me, release me, please, take me away, to infinity, oh take me away, craving devour me, take me, take me away" and the guitar solo along, great stuff, works very well!
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Symphony of Life", two words: ear rape.
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Sandra - Sunday, May 29, 2011
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| Comment by Stuart (Staff) - Sunday, May 29, 2011 |
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Comments: 116 | | Haha, yip I couldn't sum up Symphony Of Life any better. It sounds like some awful attempt to do a song in the style of Lacuna Coil (although why anyone in their right mind would want to do that,
I just don't know)
I really like Death Is Just a Feeling and a few others but overall (like many double albums) you could combine the best of this and Wicked Symphony to make a much better album.
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| Comment by ProgPower87 (Member) - Monday, June 6, 2011 |
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Ratings: 1 | | I agree with Stuart that if you took the best tracks from "Angel of Babylon" and "Wicked Symphony" and combined them, you'd have a really great release. That being said, the latter is clearly the better disc of the two. There is a good deal of variety - from what I would consider hard rock to power metal. It's definitely worth a few listens to get the feel for it, as I feel the Avantasia work has greatly surpassed Edguy's recent output. Kudos to Tobias for being able to pull together such vocalists as Kiske, Lande, Allen, Owens, etc.
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