Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence (1/2)

[AWorldsCreator]

You cannot get bored on a Guardian's song!! It's impossible!!

How could you get bored when you listen to "And There Was Silence" or "The Wheel of Time" ?

They are (like all the other BG songs) the pure essence of epicness! XD

[psykosauron]

the only problem with long songs is that people, no matter how good the song is, get bored after more than 7-8 minutes, i once saw an interview with Kirk Hammet (Metallica) saying that the reason they didnt play "...and justice for all" for a long time wasnt because it was hard to play or hard to play for 9 minutes (cos it was) but because it was really anoying to stand on-stage giving everything you got when the audience is either bored or half asleep.

[gazbg123]

@psykosauron Unfortunately i'd never heard of blind guardian when this show was played but if it was nowadays i'd be like this :D all the way through this song!!

There's a few 10+ minute songs i love from start to finish but people have their own likes and dislikes lol

[AXLPANOSROSE]

@psykosauron well that's true.but not in this song.noone gets bored because they alla wait for the NANANANANANA part.at least i was not bored when i saw them live

[MrTheLaaz]

@psykosauron Well, I don't know. When they started to play this song I was like: "No, way! Are they really going to play it?" I couldn't believe. I remember, I was jumping like crazy from the very first moment till the very end and when I came back home moments from this song were first to be mentioned to my friends. It was epic! :D

[WrathOfPhropet]

@psykosauron maybe you are wrong (as possibly said times and times before me) For example, with songs like Loreena McKenitt's Highwayman you want them to never end.

[MrLuisott]

best song ever made since the time of Stairway to Heaven... maybe...

[joshuare5768]

I use this song as workout music.

[IronGlint]

@joshuare5768 you must have destroyed the entire gym by the end

[MrVerethron]

In the dictionary it should be "Total Perfection: And then there was silence"

[SuperTomBombadil]

Question:How a mortal men wrote this song?

Answer:Hansi is not a mortal men, he's a god

[TheTwilightInferno]

0 dislikes ftw.

[sanctumofficium]

This song is fucking epic. Sacred Worlds and Wheel of Time are also damn epic too, but And Then There Was Silence will always take first prize.

[Altairograph]

@sanctumofficium Yeah, this is a song for eternity. I honestly think that is is the most perfect song I've ever heard. There is just NOTHING even remotely bad about it. There are no parts which are too long. None which are too short. All parts are awesome. I'm really glad they went back to writing songs in a similar style on the new album.

[gazbg123]

@sanctumofficium Wheel of time is my personal fav from ATEOT but ATTWS will always be better :D

[sanctumofficium]

@gazbg123 Wheel of Time, Sacred Worlds and the classic masterpiece ATTWS are the three single most played songs on my ipod.

[AXLPANOSROSE]

@gazbg123 wheel of time is one of the worst songs of blind guardian for me

[AWorldsCreator]

@AXLPANOSROSE maybe that's because you don't read Robert Jordan. Even in that case, "the Wheel of Time" is a must (for me anyway)

[kiliaden666]

Hansi's favourite song. THe crowd should do the choirs, though. That would be epic

[sewagedweller]

i hear it took them a year to write this song , and no wonder why

[PhantomOfTheOpera69]

göttlicher song..den schnitt zu part II hätte man aber strategisch günstiger setzen können..^^

[drahveson]

i kind of like this one better with the choir tbh...

[BlindGuardian341]

1:30-1:40 amazing!!

[phili666]

fucking epic! i can't believe they played it live O_o

[Guardianoftheblind11]

It certainly does take a lot of epicosity for a 14 minute song to not get repetitive or boring, but And Then There Was Silence does it. It's too bad that the camera is so sporadic, you'd think they could stay on the same picture for longer than 3 seconds, but apparently they can't. But this combination of pure epic-ness and supreme power metal cannot be marred by seizures!!!

[tolkienismaster]

youtube quality cannot do justice to this masterpiece.

[DanishMetalhead]

The most epic song blind guardian has ever made! Dont get me wrong, blind guardian has made genius songs as Nightfall, Mirror Mirror and The Bard's Song but this is 14 minutes and dont get boring. That is what I call Epic. This is also my favourite song from Blind Guardian:)

[lcedguardian]

Best song ever!

Best band ever!

Period!

[anoerratico]

sorrow and defeat

[DeadandDECAYED99]

umm so wut the genre of Blind Guardian be?

[Stalwart33]

European style Power metal at its best.

[DeadandDECAYED99]

Power metal eh? hm not my favorite genre but i like this band

and yea.. european metal never disappoints me

[guardianofstupid]

it's more like symphonic speed metal

[redoubt9000]

....which is power metal >_>

[guardianofstupid]

yes but their style of power metal is dtferent of all others

[Arkash9]

It's a mix of folk, power and epic metal, but we actually don't give a fuck, BG is awesome and that's enough!

[guardianofstupid]

i agree i call it symphonic speed metal because hansi said that

[mastermanio2]

Wrong. Blind Guardian is of the genre called Epic.

[ArtjomGlad]

@Arkash9 BG gives me a musical BJ.

[xSkraelingx]

Actually this song is more Symphonic/Progressive Metal than Power

[Greenmonkeydishwater]

Best BG song ever. So well composed. So intense!

[PowerMetalBeast]

AAAMMMMMAAAAZZZZZZINNNNNNNG! Thanks for uploading this song man!

[gromins]

Eins der besten Lieder von BG! Einfach phantastisch!

[CiliophoraEuplotes]

This song aways come to my head when I am stuck on boring places such as school or row. I feel fucking better. It's intense.

[PAINKILLERFROMHELL]

this song if FUCKING EPIC \m/

[Twist3dElements]

I am extremely pleased by Hansi's performance here. Even without the layered vocals, he manages to pull it off very well. Kudos to him and the rest of the band, they exceeded my expectations with this song live. BG for life.

[JohnLivingRoom]

In studio is very better

[orifilthy]

Ofc, but ATTWS is the most difficult song of BG, and play and sing it is very hard.

EPIC!

[MorbidGuardian]

SOOO EPICCCC

[cervellao]

i love this song...and then there was silence...

[manhattanwombat]

thanks for uploading

[CrushTheUniverse]

They played this as their finale (not before encore) last year. it was epic as fuck

[LMTR14]

why no background vocals?

[SwampLord9]

The studio version is all Hansi, I believe. He records his voice numerous times to create a choir effect. :P

[MARccty]

this is the most epic song ever written

[ElrondSafire]

One of Blind Guardian's best. Too bad its not as well known as the rest. Great video.

[SairusSafire]

you made an acount just to comment on blind guardian didn't you

[gazbg123]

Yes You Did lol

See Thats A Fan In The Making!!!!!!

[elychic]

the must song of Blind

[Tanelorn1991BGD]

i agree