Top 10 Blind Guardian Opening Tracks
This is my favorite speed metal song of all time - so fast and epic (7:30 min), aggressive, melodic, awesome. Fantastic chorus, riffs, vocals, solo. And this masterpiece was on their debut album! Bravo!
"Majesty" is based on "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien - Hansi noticed Tolkien before everybody else in the popular culture and way before the movie.
The song opens with a barrel organ version of the waltz "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II.
It was written for the video game Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.
One of their most intense songs, so powerful.
I don't count "War of Wrath" - technically it's the first listed track but it's not a song and is only 1:50 min long.
Some Blind Guardian fans believe this is their best song so give it a listen and decide for yourself - I may underrate this song.
"War of Wrath" is a very short and unusual intro to this concept album (only 1:50 min long) and it's not a song - it contains battle sounds and spoken lines. But I added it for people who may think this is the opener and not "Into the Storm" (the song that follows).
A very short intro piece 0:40 min, which is a Gregorian chant. It's before the song Banish From Sanctuary, which makes sense because Banish From Sanctuary has a religious subject.