Loyal to their appointment with the Greek audience, after the release of any new studio album, Blind Guardian this time booked two concerts in Fuzz Club that proved to be a small venue for the still multitudinous fans of the German band. I knew that the Saturday show was already sold out and I was hoping that the conditions inside the club would be more comfortable but I was wrong! Once more the show became sold out, and as a result, for one more time on this venue to be very difficult to find a good place to enjoy the show in human conditions.  

Without any support band, Blind Guardian jumped on the stage, with the new “Sacred Worlds”, with the crowd’s enthusiasm to peak up some minutes later with the absolute 90’s power metal song “Welcome To Dying”. Hansi Kursch was communicated with the crowd even better than the last times, and he even forced the crowd to change a bit the band’s setlist with the amazing performance of “Majesty” from their cult debut album “Battalions Of Fear”.

A ledger requirement showed that the crown didn’t come to hear only the classic hits of the band. Unfortunately, once more the club’s sound wasn’t enough good, but this passed just as a detail as the continuous power metal hymns that were heard made us forget this thing.  “Time Stand Still”, “Lost In The Twilight Hall”, and of course “Valhalla” was the greatest moments of the main set that ended jubilantly with the title track from “Imaginations From The Other Side”.  As expected, this wasn’t the end of the concert, as a filling encore followed with the dilogia of “The Bard Song” to be the best part of the show. Finally, after one hour and fifty minutes, the set ended, as expected with an excellent performance of the classic “Mirror Mirror.” The band’s performance on the whole concert was in a very high level, even with this mediocre sound, with the two guitarists to steal the crowd’s looks with their unstoppable superb power metal melodies. Same happened also with Hansi whose voice, once more was in very high standards. 

Even the fact that the latest great album from blind Guardian was released thirteen years ago, the two Athenian sold out concerts proved that the Greek audience still follows them, and rightly, as their concerts were always excellent. Even though is clear that power metal, and especially from great bands like Blind Guardian, needs immediately new albums and songs that will stay in history, as the continuous concerts with a best of concept will soon jade the fans interest. Something, we had the chance to live back in the 90’s. Still I can’t forget the crowd’s enthusiasm in Rodon for the new songs of “Nightfall In Middle Earth” that proved to be classics, a feeling that unfortunately has vanished since many years from this genre’s concerts.

Blind Guardian setlist:

Sacred Worlds

Welcome To Dying

Nightfall

Majesty

Time Stands Still (At The Iron Hill)

Mordred's Song

A Past And Future Secret

Lost In The Twilight Hall

Tanelorn (Into The Void)

Valhalla

Turn The Page

Imaginations From The Other Side

Encore:

Wheel Of Time

The Bard's Song - In The Forest

The Bard's Song - The Hobbit

Mirror Mirror


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