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Follow the Blind

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Released
  
24 October 1989

Producer
  
Kalle Trapp

Release date
  
24 October 1989

Genres
  
Power metal, Speed metal

Length
  
42:00

Artist
  
Blind Guardian

Label
  
No Remorse Records

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Recorded
  
January-February 1989 at Karo Studios, Münster, West Germany

Follow the Blind (1989)
  
Tales From the Twilight World (1990)

Similar
  
Blind Guardian albums, Power metal albums

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Follow the Blind is the second full-length album from the German metal band Blind Guardian. It was released in 1989 and is more in the vein of speed metal, compared to the style that would later define the band's unique sound. According to guitarist Marcus Siepen, "When we were doing Follow the Blind we were listening to a lot of thrash metal bands like Testament or Forbidden, and that's why Follow the Blind was a bit heavier". The album was remastered, remixed and re-released on 15 June 2007, with the whole second demo tape, Battalions of Fear, of the band (at the time called Lucifer's Heritage) as part of the bonus tracks. The album was again re-released as part of the A Traveler's Guide to Space and Time boxset with minor adjustments to the mixing and with new mastering. "Banish from Sanctuary" was released as a single to promote this album.

Contents

Track listing

^† "Don't Break the Circle" was not featured on the vinyl LP release. As such, "Barbara Ann" appears track number 9 on the LP version.

Band

  • Hansi Kürsch - vocals and bass
  • André Olbrich - lead guitar and backing vocals
  • Marcus Siepen - rhythm guitar and backing vocals
  • Thomas "Thomen" Stauch - drums
  • Guest musicians

  • Kai Hansen - vocals and guitar solo on "Valhalla", guitar solo on "Hall of the King"
  • Mathias Wiesner - keyboards
  • Kalle Trapp - lead guitar and vocals on "Barbara Ann"
  • Thomas Hackmann - backing vocals
  • Rolf Köhler - backing vocals and lead vocals on "Barbara Ann"
  • Aman Malek - backing vocals
  • Personnel

  • Kalle Trapp – recording, mixing and producing
  • van Waay Design – cover art
  • Songs

    1Inquisition0:40
    2Banish From Sanctuary5:27
    3Damned for All Time4:57

    References

    Follow the Blind Wikipedia