TOBI CAN HIT EVERY UNIMAGINABLE NOTE THERE IS
M. Costantini | Miami, Florida USA | 08/08/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I first started out with power metal because I had a friend, he lend my lots of CD's and this one is definatelly one of my favorites. Ed Guy's Mandrake and Avantasia part one. I also liked Helloween's The Dark Ride. But why do I love this CD so much is because it has energy it has raw power, emotion, something that other power metal bands lack. Tobias Sammet is not only one of the greatest singers today, he is the benchmark for what a power metal singer ought to be. This album should be listened while reading the lyrics if not most of the album will just pass by you without having noticed it. This happened to me at first. I started out just listening to the CD and I said wow the singer is pretty good though I only understand half of what he is singing so I wasn't that ejoyable. So anyway when I read all the lyrics I just fell in love with the CD and I listened more in depth to things that had just flown by at first glance. Having that said I recommened this CD to any Metal lover be it power metal or heavy metal or whatever."
A lot of cliches
M. D. Fonseca | Thunder | 11/20/2003
(2 out of 5 stars)
"This ambitious project by Edguy's talented singer, Tobias Sammet, just backfired, in my opinion. It has absolutely NO inovation, and, still worst than that, it seems to put the together all the available cliches of German power / melodic metal in just one CD. It's almost unbearable at certain parts. Of course all the musicians involved are very skillfull, but that did not save the album. THe term "metal opera" is wasted here. Trust me, it's just another power metal record: double kick drums all along, screaming vocals, hopeful lyrics, harmonic solos. It's pleasant, but, like I said before, just a copy from another copy."
Track Listings (11) - Disc #1