How does this new album A Twist In The Myth compare to the old Blind Guardian albums?
It certainly stems in the tradition of all the Blind Guardian albums. It contains a lot of the qualities and the musical roots there is no doubt about that. But on the other hand, it goes in an even further direction. It has a very modern approach and defines the band and how we feel for the Blind Guardian music in 2006, which means it is not a good old-fashioned album, but a very open and very innovative album. I believe we also were able to come up with songs, which are easier to comprehend than the songs on A Night At The Opera. At the same time we followed that direction. It seems like the average wait for a Blind Guardian CD is four years. Do you sometimes get impatience to have to wait that long to release new material? (Laughs) It really looks like it, even since Imaginations, it turns out to be more and more obvious that to come up with quality music and improvement of style at the same time, it takes us that long. But just to add to that, its really justified for A Twist In Th
