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The album, I feel, is still worthy of a purchase for Edguy fans, who will enjoy it no doubt, but like me will leave you feeling a little empty; like they could have lifted the intensity slightly higher. Originally written for www.

This song would have been a rather decent track with a running time of five minutes but almost nine minutes are way too much. This unbearable piece of boredom goes straight to nowhere. Edguy had a couple of humorous and still intelligent tracks on each album in the past but the intellectual level has consecutively been lowered since then. I can definitely not recommend this record. I only bought it because I own all Edguy records and have been a long-time fan. When I first listened to this record three years ago, I was simply disappointed and a little bit angry.

Now, I happen to find this album extremely boring and embarrassing which is probably even worse. The Kubler-Ross concept of the 5 stages of grief has broader applications than simply coping with death, and I don't mean to make light of the subject by saying so, at least not any more than the average sardonic metal head. But often outside of the original area that this concept was developed for, skipping steps is a bit more common, and my coming to terms with the death of one of my formerly favorite bands in terms of their credentials as a power metal band was a quick run through a couple of the steps.

Denial was obviously out the window the minute I first beheld the lionizing of mediocrity that was "The Scarecrow" because it was so blatant that no evasion was possible, but anger was obviously an immediate result. Since subsequent studio disasters out of both of Tobi's projects, my state of being could be seen as an odd combination of acceptance with a latent sense of bargaining, a sort of false hope that keeps me coming back to his albums hoping for a surprise.

But reality has forced me to go the route of purchasing Avantasia and Edguy albums a few months after their release when a cheap used copy can be procured. By this eventuality, my annoyance at Tobi's continual pseudo-comical irreverence for heavy metal is less concentrated due to less money being lost in the process, but my sampling of "The Age Of The Joker" definitely left me with a heavy dose of it.

There's no mystery left to Edguy's music, save perhaps the reason why Tobias continues to keep Avantasia going as it is musically interchangeable with the former. This album goes through the exact same poor man's anthem with heavily cliche hard rock elements that "Angel Of Babylon" and "The Wicked Symphony" did, minus all the guest vocal slots.

A faint shadow of the original formula resides buried under the overly exaggerated grit of the vocals and crunch of the guitars, to speak nothing for the annoyingly modern sounding drum production where the cymbals are as raucously loud as the snare, but it does little to sate the hunger for that vintage beauty of the band's pre majesty.

This music is the opposite of majestic, it's awkward when it tries to be serious, and doubly so when it tries to be tongue-in-cheek. The only song on here that can really be qualified as solid is "The Arcane Guild", which takes some elements of the older guy and manages to punch a decent speeder with a slight 90s Stratovarius edge through a lackluster mixing job with the obligatory Deep Purple organ sound.

But for the most part, everything meanders and crosses the borders between modern alternative rock and recent power metal meets AOR debacles. Sometimes it's overlong, sometimes it's a ballad or two, but it's consistently a musical drag. Maybe I'm just a freak exception to the rule, but insofar as the death of Tobias' little niche in the early power metal revival, I just can't bring myself to deny it or fully accept it, and I keep revisiting the anger stage.

But the fact that I can't seem to get it together doesn't mean that you need to spend your precious dough settling for mediocrity with a few cheap laughs. Streams Videos All Posts. My Profile. Advanced Search. Track Listing. Robin Hood. Tobias Sammet. Nobody's Hero. Rock of Cashel. Pandora's Box. Two Out of Seven.

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