Blind Guardian ‎ – A Night At The Opera 2002 (Seventh studio album)

Blind Guardian ‎ – A Night At The Opera
Leybl: Virgin ‎ – 724381182529 Format: CD, Album Country: Ukraine Date of release: 2002
Genre: Rock Style: Progressive Metal, Symphonic Metal
Treklist:
1 of Precious Jerusalem 6:21
2 of Battlefield
Music By – Thomas Stauch
5:37
3 of Under The Ice 5:44
4 of Sadly Sings Destiny 6:05
5 of The Maiden And The Minstrel Knight 5:30
6 of Wait For An Answer 6:26
7 The Soulforged
Music By – Thomas Stauch
5:18
8 Age Of False Innocence
Piano – Michael Schüren
6:05
9 of Punishment Divine 5:40
10a And Then There Was Silence 14:05
10b Mies Del Dolor
Music By – Marcus Siepen, Thomas Stauch
3:41
A Night at the Opera (with English   —   "Noch in the Opera") — the seventh studio album of the Blind Guardian group released in 2002 on a label of Virgin Records.
Working name of a disk was "Soulforged", but musicians changed it for "Noch in the Opera". The new name is a hint on the album of Queen of the same name. According to the guitarist Markus Zipen:
"Queen influenced most us so it is some kind of tribute [1]. "
Disk differs in further change of sounding of Blind Guardian towards progressive threw and also the noticeable number of songs with texts of near-religious subject. Eto a latest album of group with participation of the drummer Tommen Staukh.
A Night at the Opera is called the best metal album of 2002 the website Metal-Rules.com.