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Rating: This first CD by Edguy was produced in 95 but was practically ignored by most of the metal critics... a pity because it was an excellent original album made by young talents (the members were 16-17 years old at the time)...
Re-released in 2000, it was taken more seriously and received the success it hadn't managed to achieve. Analyzing the album more deeply, we realize that the tracks are original given the young age of the members and technically well constructed. The album starts with the powerful "Hallowed", an excellent demonstration of the abilities and creativity of lead singer Tobias Sammet. The second track is "Misguiding your Life", another showcase of the group's impressive rhythmic-technical ability. The song also features a compelling solo intertwined with a Beethoven symphony, revealing a good knowledge of classical music by the lead guitarist. The following is "Key to my Fate", which follows the line of the other two, showing a linear verse that leads to an absolutely catchy chorus.
"Sands of Time" proves to be a good ballad with a classical piano track. Here we come to the most powerful and catchy song at the same time, with an excellent intro in perfect power style that leads us to a fitting chorus for this song. "Eyes of the Tyrant" is perhaps the most subdued song of the album along with the following "Frozen Candle", although both are still good songs. The next one is an exciting ballad with an equally compelling text titled "Roses to One".
The finale is the aptly named "Power and Majesty", where the album concludes with a wave of pure metallic power. The album demonstrates the excellent potential of a band composed of those who were still minors, indeed later this glimpse of compositional ability would prove fundamental for the production of their best record "Vain Glory Opera"... where finally the critics noticed Edguy.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Hallowed (06:14)
Sacred - Standing full of pride
Spite on my mind, spite in my brain
Guiding me to fight
Enchained - pray to be a slave
Rules without sense, no little sense
To dust you will decay
|Chorus|:
Hallowed be my name
Hallowed be my name
God of creation
You beg for damnation
You think you can serve me in hate
Hallowed be my name
Hallowed be my name
God of creation
You beg for damnation
You think you can serve me in hate
Hatred - pushed into a war
Those who blaspheme
Don't join our way
Dying be your sword
Sacred - hallowed be my name
For "peace" you destroy
Lie and deny
A glorious crusade
|Chorus|
|Solo|
|Chorus|
03 Key to My Fate (04:04)
Am I totally blind this time when I'm dreamin'
The dreams that I fear, some call it nightmare
And some call it life, what is the sense of
Existing in here
And I think of the sadness when I'm dreamin' of
Leavin' the pain I don't get all that madness
And it drives me insane
Now hear me cry, I'm in quest
Of the key to my fate
I might be nigh to the key
In the abyss of hate
Annihilation in my brain
What is the price that we will be to pay
When will you lift our little poor souls
When will you take us oh lord away
Oh when will we die
Why to suffer to stand up right
We are victims of time
We have to fight till the end is in sight
What's the reason to carry on
What's the reason to fall
After days of living hall
After we had to crawl,
Are we totally blind this time
Can't you tell me the nexus of freedom
And pain and desires and hate
And even the holy ones
05 Sacred Hell (05:37)
Ravens in the air, noone in the streets
Seems like the fiend he must be back
Riding on his horse but also flying in the iar
Love has just started to crack - ow
Whisplash and torture, falseness and pain
Envy is driving our hate
Everything out there is mad and confused
Till we'll be able to seal each others fate
Staring through eyes of hate and able to kill
We don't realize we've been given our own
Fuckin' will, like animals humans don't think
Don't look for a reason, we hate no style
We put the blame on the demon
Sacred hell, sacred hell
There is nothing but names on the wall
You can be free, you can reach tomorrow
Sacred hell, sacred hell
So the fend must be back on our ball
Lose all your sins, lose all your sorrows
No lucid intervals, no people who guide
But a 1000 Masters of disguise
Eternal damnation 'cause humans they hide
They think that satan shall rise
06 Eyes of the Tyrant (10:00)
In the eyes of this mighty domain
And its evil doctrines
Can't feel the trace of romance
But fears that grow
No one can stare into his nextone's eyes
We killed the poetry around
A long time ago
How many times have you given me rage
When your words were mendacious
And your laughter insane
How many times
Have you written lapoons
About my life and desire
About my pleasure and pain
I bare my fangs to you
Look at my face and you'll stare
Into my mind and you see
[Chorus]
Eyes of the tyrant
These are the eyes of the night
Back from the hades
Into the daylight - No
Kiling of all nights
Tell me what should I do
Should I die in glory
Should I raise my fist
The crime of my deeds
Is the frolic I need
I won't die on my knees
Gotta kill to resist
I bare my fangs to you
Look at my face and you'll stare
Into my mind and you see
[Chorus]
Eyes of the tyrant
These are the eyes of the night
Back from the Hades
Into the daylight - no
[Solo: Jens]
The chagrin of the damned
Cries the tears of romance
Lord of uprightness take me know
World of the sad
It't the world of the mad
My heart died so long ago
[Solo: Jens]
Yeah - we are eternal we are immortal
A trace of glory in our hands
Majestic and wild
We stand and we fight
[Solo: Jens]
Soon your blackened pride
Will be fading away
You'll realize
You'll have been walking astray
Never tame the wicked
I'm a tyrant tonight
Back from the hades into the light
[Solo: Jens & Dirk]
[Chorus]
Back from the hades into the
Eyes of the tyrant
These are the eyes of the night
07 Frozen Candle (07:15)
Crying on the pyre
Feeling - oh - so strange
Once you took my mind to deteriorate
Told me that you like me
Atrocious and deterrent lies
Told me how it is to suffer hate
Celebrate my funeral
Vultures on my corpse
Ashes to ashes - me to hell
Want to bury me alive
But you've never known
You are too deaf to hear my forces yell
On your mind the creeping hate
You hold the link to seal my fate
I stare into the light
Fire burning brightly
Inquisitition in our time
But I gotta tell you what I am
[Chorus]
Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
I can still remember you
Coming with the reaper
How you tried to unlock my door
Sleepless nights - evil dreams
Faces in the window
Voices that I've never heard before
On your mind the creeping hate
You hold the link to seal my fate
I stare into the light
Fire burning brightly
Inquisitition in our time
But I gotta tell you what I am
[Chorus]
Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
[Solo: Jens]
[Chorus]
Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
Burning - I am burning
Yeah - burning like a frozen candle
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