Blind Guardian - Under the Ice

[Animechick4life1]

oh this song just gives me sweet sweet chills. This is the only CD I keep in my car :D

[ThunderWarriors5000]

lyrics?

[Khanin2718]

"Under the ice you will believe... under the ice... you will be FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Thumbs up to celebrate the ridiculous epicness of that chorus \m/

[samboy1288]

this is RAGING METAL!

[Archmage9078]

I honestly think Blind Guardian's songs are pretty bad, but the names and artwork makes you want to listen to it

[Fenridor]

@Archmage9078 I think I hate you. Nothing personal, you just make me want to vomit blood. At the very least you appreciate something about them and are kind of polite, so you get about 3 less points of blood vomit.

[semiserioussam]

@Archmage9078 Tell me what you think is good so i can mercilessly rip into you.

[Archmage9078]

@semiserioussam Star of the county Down, Waxies dargle, Óró sé do bheatha bhaiola, Rocky road to Dublin

[semiserioussam]

@Archmage9078 Oh, you're Irish. Sorry i didn't know i was arguing with the mentally handicapped.

[Archmage9078]

@semiserioussam you have to admit this song is a bit cheesy, also we have better manners than wherever you are from

[semiserioussam]

@Archmage9078 One man's cheese is another man's epic theatrics.

[Archmage9078]

@semiserioussam listen to whatever you want just dont be a racist (especially since you descended from us)

[semiserioussam]

@Archmage9078 What if i told you i'm English?

[Archmage9078]

@semiserioussam Sorry, I thought you were american

[Archmage9078]

@semiserioussam And no offense but you are trolling

[Archmage9078]

@semiserioussam Listen to Skyforger, they are better and sounds more pagan than metal bands

[IAmebAdger]

@Archmage9078 I'm guessing you don't like powermetal all that much, otherwise you would see why they are among the best of ... well... powermetal

I like pagan sounding bands as well, but it's just a whole different type of music and cannot be compared

[drieddead]

The live version of this song is better imo..... honestly most of gaurdians songs are better live. CAUSE THEIR FUCKING AMAZING!

[EVHiSaGoD]

yeah well this is gay ima go back to listening to All That Remains

[GAMINGgrungey]

@EVHiSaGoD takes one to know one...

[Mindcontrol106]

Chuck Norris listens to this when he shaves.

[jdkill6698]

Mind BLOWN!

[SirSpazzalot]

I fapped.

[deadGRENADER]

I got here because of Richard Sjunnesson.

[golddrive80]

it kills me that a game like metal unicorn attack had to ruin an amazing song like this

[CyberMetalOverlord]

@golddrive80 it used the song battlefield not this

[zanderjohn1]

@golddrive80 Hardly. It just showed an unbelievably fantastic band to people who would have otherwise never heard of them.

[googlygoink]

@HypoEeveeBlackAngel nope, that's just the regular kind of blood. your ears bled because of an overload of epicness. if you really did have epic blood then your ear wouldn't have bled :D that's how the band survive their own music and prevent epic overloads in their bodies.

[SSJ4Yujiro]

This music makes me want to get a liger to ride to work.

[Gmansters]

@SSJ4Yujiro liger from Zoids would be AMAZING to ride :)

[SSJ4Yujiro]

@Gmansters I'm talkin' an actual liger man.

[billybobjoe444]

My mom called me to dinner but i was busy chopping orcs into little pieces

[GAMINGgrungey]

jesus christ my speakers are on fire!

[killswitchkenny]

All of Blind Guardian's music makes me feel like a battle axe is being forced out of my penis.... in a GOOD way.

[Dxx36]

I found out about Blind Guardian through watching a League of Legends jungle route video... ><

[EficPail1]

Every Song by Blind Guardian is based on old tales and that's how music used to be, they were based on tales and myths....

[trashstop]

The conductor on the cover art looks freaky. He looks like there's some giant dildo on the edge of the stage and that's distracting him from conducting the orchestra or something.

[Skyhigh347]

"Released from canine thoughts

No more mane

and no more dogs"

Bwahahahahahaa!

[EpicZantetsuken]

lol, i discovered Blind Guardian from a 14 second MLP: FIM video.

there, i said it, call me gay all you want. i know i'm straight, so i don't care what the trolls think.

[Megavegeta32]

@EpicZantetsuken Whoever thinks you're gay for liking MLP is insecure with their own masculinity.

[EpicZantetsuken]

@Megavegeta32 exactly, i couldn't have said it better myself.

[krisdaschwab912]

The game is great, but I heard of Blind Guardian about a year before the game came out.

They should've picked this song (or its live version) instead of Battlefield, but eh. Whatever.

[uberman709]

funy story, i found BG by a friend showing me at the edge of time, i saw this album but said "meh looks wierd" then i played robot unicorn attack metal and said, "huh this sounds like bg" then im here, never will i judge a book by its cover again

[THEBOSSDEAGLE]

I've always heard of Blind Guardian, but always put it off.

Jesus, I was Missing out. THIS IS AWESOME.

[paz2001]

I love power metal so much o.o

[RoxxSerm]

so , u know dragonforce recording half speed than its heard in albums and LPs ?! :D

and they self says its the truth !

dont fuck about BG, even if they WOULD do the same they are much times better than other fucking bands in this genre !

i'm rich BIATCH !

[SoulsofFury1]

The small guitar whine around 1:34 and in the other choruses is the nicest guitar I've ever heard.

[Atlittle104]

@SoulsofFury1 i agree, very nice background guitarwork, alot of the time when bands have more than 1 guitar playing it gets annoying but bg makes it sound that much more awesome

[B16MAN1]

i will admit ive never seen them live in an actual concert but i have seen videos and you got jipped the instruments are fake and recorded and lead singer sucks live. really

[vanhellson1782]

Dragon what? who are these guys? i say: LONG LIVE TO THE GUARDIANS

[ohboyhey2k4]

i came also FUCK ALL WHO MENTION DRAGONFORCE ON THE SAME LEVEL OF THE ALMIGHTY BLIND GUARDIAN

[Exilitus]

@ohboyhey2k4 Dragonforce, umad?

[ohboyhey2k4]

@Exilitus mad as fuck bro

[BloopPepsii]

WAYYY Better Than Dragonforce...

Gosh, I Hate Great Ass Bands That Don't Get The Credit &+ Fame They Deserve, But Shitty Bands &+ Artists Do. -__-

[xFallenRequiem]

DragonForce and Disturbed are bad and you should feel bad for mentioning them.

[InAGaddaDaVida29]

@xFallenRequiem Please elaborate. Explain how DragonForce is a bad band.

[hovogliadileggere]

do you guys want put Blind Guardian on the same step of dragonforce? are you joking? this band does power metal progressive(classic, not like tool) and they can do it very well , live is the prrof. said enough.

[cjmaiers]

Dragonforce= decent speed metal

BG= ABSOLUTE POWER METAL EPICNESS!!!

[HypoEeveeBlackAngel]

My god... i think my ears just Jizzed... oh wait.. that's blood... THE BLOOD OF FUCKKING EPICNESS!

[Hellfire0220]

just cause dragonforce play fast.people are like omg,but it sounds like garbage in a blender thats fastforworded

[B16MAN1]

@Hellfire0220 also sucks live

[paz2001]

@B16MAN1 I bet you havn't seen them live.

Cus they sure as hell didn't suck when i saw them.

[B16MAN1]

@paz2001 aint nearly as fast live as they are on the albums. a band that cant really play like they say sucks example dragonforce

[paz2001]

@B16MAN1 They were just as fast. Like i say, you probobly havn't seen them live and you havn't said otherwise so i don't see how you can comment on it.

[B16MAN1]

@Hellfire0220 dragonforce sucks this is legendary

[SCSRoblox]

This band is awesome. It has the power metal awesomeness of DragonForce, my favorite band, and the hardness of Disturbed, another band I like.

[Blashyrkh22]

@SCSRoblox Hardness of Disturbed? Really?

[BlindMetaler]

heared this song the first time on the imaginations dvd...second dvd the part is named into the storm...

[engasal]

my neck hurts from headbanging :<

[oxbowthegreat]

My favorite Blind Gaurdian song.

[blinkor89]

@oxbowthegreat

same here

i love this song. i heard it in a internetradio first, liked from the first time

[Hinderman100]

Masahiro9891 and OscarMaris, calm down it's just a song and you guys are making a stupid and pointless arguement.

[zacheriajoseph]

I had goosebumps throughout this entire song. I now have a meaning in life...

[Hinderman100]

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL...biotc­h.

[Atlittle104]

....I did, I was looking for the song battlefield, the song on robot unicorn attack: heavy metal, and I saw this one too lol!

[awesomesauce9001]

who got here cause of metal unicorn attack? be honest

[XoXeverytimeidieXoX]

@awesomesauce9001

*raises hand*

[Uchihasest]

Who got here because they actually like the band, and not because of some damn flash game?

:/

[paz2001]

@Uchihasest *Implying people who found out about them from the game only like the band because of that.*

No, wrong. I played that game only a few times and really liked battlefield, so i checked em out. And guess what? They're my fave band now, i havn't even played that game for like 3 months... It's quite hard to find a good power metal band, there are LOADS out there.

<3 Blind guardian

[truedemonicfire]

@awesomesauce9001 I will be honest, I knew of Blind Guardian well before Robot Unicorn Attack ever came into existence, and I got see them live. There is truth to your statement, R.U.A. is an awesome game

[sanegamer123]

@awesomesauce9001 surpisingly i learned of blind guardian from sacred 2 fallen angel...and later realised that the song battlefield for MRUA was by them lol

[Darkfeather21]

@awesomesauce9001 Nope. I got here because of Van Canto!

[AbadonXXX]

after just hearing their music on robot unicorn heavy metal edition, I have become an instant fan of their epic metal ^^

[malkane316]

Terrible cover art, everything else is perfect. Possibly the best metal album of the decade. It makes my top 15 albums list, check it out.

[kazmotchikun]

@malkane316 The cover art makes sense... "A Night at the Opera" it shows people wearing masks, playing different instruments, a conducter, monsters in the background, it could easily be a musical monster masterpiece. It ties in with the name of the album if you understand what Opera actually is and can be.

[malkane316]

@kazmotchikun I fully understand the cover art, I just find it incredibly messy and cheap looking. Like Maiden's Dance Of Death- great idea for cover art, terrible execution of the idea

[07hg1]

@malkane316 the cover art is actually really good and yes the is their best album aside from somewhere far beyond

[KmaioR]

Please,hear the music and respect cause.... AND THEN THERE WAS SILENCE....

[vegunited06]

who fuckin cares about genre names

[Meggiddo89]

Anyone who thinks that BG 'stole' the album title really needs their ears examined...I mean, they went fairly over-the-top with vocal layering on this album, and they were never hugely subtle about it before. How much more of a Queen homage do you need? I would have thought the layering and the cover of Spread Your Wings would have been enough.

[zeppelin88ab]

Dragonforce sucks in comparison to the might BG

[KmaioR]

The music itself transmits energy,Blind Guardian's music transmit not only energy,but also feelings.That's why they're so nice to hear =D

[zayn7]

i love how in this album in particular the songs are more.....grand, epic, magnificent, loud,........but perhaps the best word is GODLY

[TuSmEk]

they are like Queen in metal

[onett128]

@TuSmEk funny you mention queen cos queen had an album of the same name as the album shown.

[SwampLord9]

@TuSmEk Blind Guardian was heavily influenced by Queen. This album name might be a reference to Queen, and they did a cover of Spread Your Wings. :D

[stale56]

@SwampLord9 Yupp. And Queen got the name of the album "A Night at the Opera" from the movie from 1935 by the Marx Brothers; they saw that movie one night at the recording studio.

And I'm pretty sure the album name is, in fact, a reference to the Queen album.

Queen and Blind Guardian: two of the greatest bands of their type.

[wwerulestna]

@SwampLord9 lol, might be? it is, and the whole album is fashioned as a kind of really heavy Queen style album.

[dorinel11]

@echocompany666 Legendary is too litle to describe it :))

[ski28girl]

My dad hates it when I listen to BG because he says it makes him feel tired, lol

[xxAtlantianKnightxx]

Awesomeness.

[blasabb]

Kick ass song. And the whole album is one of the best albums ever. Not even one bad song on the album. Great stuff that i will never stop listening to

[RoyaldGuard]

fucking awesome album. The second best album of them, in my opinion. The first is IFTOS

[tool619]

a night in the opera always leaves me exhausted after the whole album finishes.

[Lithilk]

I've always wanted to know what the lyrics are about.

"Run 'til you find the answer

Time out for our poor Cassandra

She's fairly safe inside the fire"

?

[veijovikkela]

@Lithilk Wikipedia suggests the following: "Under The Ice" has connections to the Iliad, focuses on Cassandra and what happened to her after the Trojan War, particularly from The Oresteia.

[Athielmon]

in gral, the album talks about Troja

look this song and "And then there was silence"

[TheCruiserUnleashed]

I love this song but the best part of the song has to be the intro ;}

[thatguy5814]

BAD-

[thatguy5814]

ass

[onett128]

most epic chorus ever

[OscarMaris]

they play the same sort of music as Dragonforce but BG is 100 times better. Dragonforce is like the K-mart of power metal.

[darkest1hourxx]

ahahah funny =p

[ThatSatyr]

I was thumbs up # 10 :D

[SergeantDrall]

@OscarMaris I cannot agree with you. Personally, I like them both, can't choose between them.

[darthd95]

@OscarMaris listen to battlefield ,blood tears, the eldar, dark elf ... guardian play both power and epic metal .dragonforce only power metal(personally i hate dragonforce )

[OscarMaris]

@darthd95 yawn, you're just splitting hairs.

[AbsurdityExistential]

@OscarMaris

"Dragonforce is like the K-mart of power metal."

LMAO!!!

[RaweN009]

@OscarMaris DRAGONFOOOOORCE! lolz I kid, I hate dragonforce :P

[Masahiro9891]

@OscarMaris Dumbass, they don't play the same music because if they did you would like them the same, get it? They play the same genre, and Blind Gaurdian is a better power metal band than Dragonforce is.

[OscarMaris]

@Masahiro9891 I wrote "the same sort of music" you blind retard. obviously that means the same genre, unless you are a jibbering moron who doesn't understand english.

[Liberdies]

@OscarMaris jaja como crees que vas a comparar a dragon force con Blind Guardian, nada que ver. Es mucho mejor Blind Guardian, no necesita comparacion.

[OscarMaris]

@Liberdies I was just trolling dragonforce. You don't need to take the comparison seriously.

[Liberdies]

@OscarMaris Mmm ok

[Hinderman100]

@Liberdies in english pofavor?

[krisdaschwab912]

@Hinderman100

"Ya, ya, how anyone sees a comparision a comparision between Dragonforce and Blind Guardian, I will never see. Blind Guardian is much better, no comparison needed."

That's my rough Wisconsin Spanish translation with 3 years of rust.

[Liberdies]

@krisdaschwab912 jaja Good transalation but a little wrong, keep working, is good to learn and undertstand

[Liberdies]

@Hinderman100 ohh men you need to learn spanish jeje

[shooterperson]

@OscarMaris I'm quite the fan of Dragonforce but I have to agree with you 100%.

[Blashyrkh22]

@OscarMaris Nah this is much more folk influenced than Dragonfarts. Completely incomparable with them, its like comparing filet mignon steak and a Big Mac...

[OscarMaris]

@Blashyrkh22 why do you have to ruin a perfectly good joke? relax.

[0nePumpChump]

@OscarMaris

I wouldn't characterize them as the same sort of music, beyond being broadly in the same genre.

[OscarMaris]

@0nePumpChump those two things are basically the same. genre = sort of music

[bardviking]

@OscarMaris Poor K-mart

[MrTotallyRad]

@OscarMaris Dragonforce is the biggest dickhole band in the world.

[lighth4zard]

@MrTotallyRad Don't be hasty with such commentary....

you forget Justin Bieber, lint bizkit, lincon park, nickleback...

I could go on....

and I will...:

Britney spears, lady gaga, kanye west, hannah montana, linsey lohan,........

[Xwannagod]

@lighth4zard i could go on....

and i will....

nice

[ndangeredspieces]

@lighth4zard Those people made music?

[lighth4zard]

@ndangeredspieces

if thats what you wanna call ass noise........

[TheEverskye]

@lighth4zard You're grouping Justin Beiber with Nickelback and Linkin Park? Aww D:

[ivankovicdaki]

@OscarMaris They are shit :D, they sound funny :D, THEY SUCK !

[thedevilburnsred]

@ivankovicdaki YOU NEED A SENSE OF MUSIC THEN

[patheice]

AMAZING! BEST BAND EVER!

[boriss4]

Amazing song; the detail is incredible. Just listen closely to the guitar effects in the background from 5:33 to 5:36...you only notice thee things after like, 80 listens!

[Omegashenron1992]

True! So true!

[metalwizard13]

all you guys arguing over what micro-genre this fits into are wastes of air and organs. Unite true metal.

[kennyvanaudenhove]

cool muziek

[DioandMaiden]

Endarfin thats true a lot of their songs are based off of those stories. Makes their songs even better imo.

[19nightfall89]

brilliant song

[indisponibilul]

their music is complicated...but i like it.

[AlyMaiden]

Best speed/power metal band ever .. with Iced Earth!!

[giando91]

Simply......NO.

BG are speed/power....maybe epic.....bust they still a speed/power metal band.

[ndlpreds]

powerballads in my opinion. speed metal is the same as powermetal ( dont flame on this not 100% sure) and power/speedmetal is like dragonforce.

[Northorseman]

If you're not 100 % sure, you damn shouldn't write it ... It's not right.

Speed and power metal are different, but maybe you were confused by the fact that Blind Guardian have done both! Speed is definetly more close to thrash, than to power metal!

[metalwizard13]

lol....speed metal is not a genre. that could describe any fast metal from old sepultura to dragonforce. it's just a generic term to describe fast metal. B is and always was a power metal band they just had some thrashier elements on their first few albums. besides genres are for posers.

[Northorseman]

Hansi: "Our musical style can be defined as SYMPHONIC SPEED METAL."

Search 'Blind Guardian - Motion Capture for Sacred 2' - at 0:58.

[MetalinTheSky]

watch?v=vfpl07B8t6I

Yup : D

[KingBigBang]

Isnt that the same vid as in where the other band members all say they are another genre? :P Power metal, Progressive metal, whatever metal.

It's metal, it's Guardian that's enough isnt? :P

[Northorseman]

I've never said otherwise --- but if you were to name BG with a genre, then I guess it would be symphonic speed metal, as Hansi said

[onett128]

dont forget sonata arctica

[Ghouma]

THE AMAZING BAAARDS!!1

[Kilersarequiet666]

Wow! Fucking amazing song!

[Antonis1912]

it's about a girl trapped under the ice in the second war ... i think i'm prob mistaking but in one live he said so ....

[scruga]

I think we shouldn't take under the ice too literally. More like a metaphor(if that's spelled correctly)

[StrykerTStrykerton]

Kick ass I saw them in Toronto for their 2nd ever live show in north america....KILLER

[FREEZERQC]

u lucky man

[ABYZ1289]

Hi everybody... I've been listening to this band's stuff for like a week now and I love them. This album especially and I've noticed that all the songs have a message, a deep phylosophycal meaning, but this specific one's meaning sort of evades me. Can anyone tell me what the song is about?

[scruga]

I found this on the wiki, might wish to check it out.

"Under The Ice" has connections to the Iliad, focuses on Cassandra and what happened to her after the Trojan War, particularly from The Oresteia.