Hip-Hop Head REACTS to BLIND GUARDIAN - "The Bard's Song" & "Valhalla" (Live at Wacken) 

It's not a hymn... It's an anthem

"The Bards's Song" by Blind Guardian is the German National Hymn. Singing along always brings tears to my eyes, such a divine music............

@@ramonapetermann9585 this! espacially in front of the actial situation and the canceling of all festivals and concerts

Whenever I see Blind Guardian don't expect me to speak for the next two days. 😂

@@AmarthwenNarmacil i was like that after both Dream Theater concerts ive been too. I really want to see Blind Guardian or even Demons and Wizards so bad

You would know better than I, are they considered the greatest band to ever come out of Germany?

@@stevecampbell9670 Depends on the Genre you ask.Scorpions,Rammstein and Kraftwerk sold definatly more Records worldwide and are better known.I am from Düsseldorf,so my local Heroes Kraftwerk are my Nr One,BUT i devide in music genres,so,Kraftwerk/Tangerine Dream/Klaus Schulze for Electronic.Scorpions,Helloween,Blind Guardian for Metal.Einstürzende Neubauten and another Hometown Heroes Die Krupps for Industrial/Metal....and so on and on....Wacken is a very Unique Thing and Blind Guardian and Doro Pesch are Definatly their Heroes.Another great Scene is the german Traditional Folk/Metal Scene like In Extremo,Corvus Corax,Tanzwut,Faun,Subway to Sally,Heilung,Finsterforst,etc....definatly a lot to discover for Foreign Music Lovers!

@@ingovonderluhe2174 Wow. Haven't heard of most of them but I will swing by spotify and give them a listen. Thank you.

@Sentinel Scourge Just the Peak of german Metal Bands or German Bands in general.There are so many other good Ones to discover.....

necrophagist That's the best band to ever come from Germany

I love the way his chin goes up and he raises his arms like 'I AM YOUR KING' lol. He's damn good and he knows it!

This comment tho!! so true, Blind are awesome overall, but Hansi... the guy is phenomenal. His voice can deliver anything from the soft going to sleep vibe, to the dragon rocking your world vibe. All this while being the best frontman I can think of !

Best description I've seen of him is "He looks like a dad and sounds like a god"

Arjen Lucasson said that Hansi's voice sounds like its coming from the top of a mountain. I agree. What a performance!

Hahaha xD

Kamelot* :D

@@wraith8988 He's clearly talking about the feel and mood of the music itself, not referring to the name of a hard core heavy metal band.

More like Rivendell, but you're in the ball park

He probably doesn't know what a bard is

Tolkeien and Robert Jordan fanatics for sure, I blame them for me reading through the 14 books in The Wheel of Time series as well (and then since Brandon Sanderson finished the WoT series after Jordan's passing, and me liking his style, reading all of his Cosmere attached series as well). :P

Jason Groff I’m so close to finishing WoT... but kinda burned out for now

I would say Hansi is. He is the main lyrics writer. Andre is the second. Not a problem though, I love them :)

about singing. Yes, that's absolutelly true, BG fans know all the songs they sing on the concerts. There were a few albums that were not that good live and BG got it, their concerts are always good and have a great vocal support from the crowd. That's why I love them!

@@jthomas6672 The field is lost, everything is lost. The black one has fallen from the sky...

It's not echo. They still sing. When they recorded Imagination Through the Looking Glass in 2003 and performed this song. That crowd is also still singing ;)

I'm still singing from the first time I saw them. That was 2003.

Legend has it, they will sing for an eternity; and their voices will carry on into the cosmos, never ceasing.

@@GriMMME That's how the world of elves, dwarfs, men and hobbits had been created...

Wandering Ursa dude imwish i could finally see them. Its been like 10 years or so. At least i saw demons and wizards this year and they played valhalla. But i want to experience the bards song again...

What concert was it ? Please tell me there's a video about it

Tell us more old one , did you heard them did the valkyrs join on theyrbsong ? Did the heavens split open so that the gods would partake and hear theyr music ?

Was there, will return every year. See you in Wacken Rain or Shine!

I was there too :-)

no wokr, they could simply turn the mic off and you'd still have several ens thousand people singing every word, knowing every break etc,, flawlessly because it is iconic in the metal scene

Er..OK. 🤔

Preach on my brother!

YES!!!

Amen ☝️☝️🤘🤘🤘🤘

Tomorrow is my birthday, so I think I’ll still be at home

Used to do all-sang at home parties, five to ten of us standing up shouting out the lyrics (and adding between verses a loud shout of "Lets drink!" and downing a beer or a horn of home-brewed mead). Had to print out the lyrics and have on a sheet once or twice to my embarrassment, but from that I remember these by heart now over ten years later.

@@Sacremas also a good song if you cant sleep.. Ive met a lot of metal parrents who uses this song as a nursery song to put their kid to sleep..

ThePowerOf42 tomorrow will take it away. The fear of today. It will be gone Into our magic songs

Even reading this lines gives me goosebumps. :D One of the few songs that can do this to me.

I remember one, where he sang the first line and that's it. After the Song was over, his response was Something like "I'm kinda mad, i wanted to sing some as well"

He sang about 3 lines at my concert! And I got to sing my favourite ballad Skalds and Shadows.

every metalhead in the world knows who they are.

@@Arnorian everyone exept this german metalhead apparently O_O never heard of them >.

MasumiSeike wtf????? How can you call yourself a metalhead then! Mke sure to listen to every freakin song they did asap!

@@aceadam1828 wow.. someone got a bad day apparently 🙄 just because ai never heard from them before doesn't mean I can't learn about them now. And questioning how I can call myself a metalhead just because I don't know a band is just stupid. Everyone learn's over time, some sooner others later

@@MasumiSeike Watch the "Imaginations through the looking glass" live concert, its here on youtube. Not having been there is my single greatest regret in life, ahead of Queen in Wembley. It has a good chance of changing your life in a way.

I'll drink to that!

Fuck yea!! \m/

I'm an introvert and I don't like other people, but for a week every year at Summer Breeze Festival I feel at home among thousands of strangers! 🤘

Dude There aint no country where theres no Metalhead

_\m/

pretty sure iron maiden holds that title

Maybe with some parts on many of their songs, but Bruce Dickinson doesn´t let the public sing the whole song on their own (it may be some exceptions), he is always taking the lead on the lyrics, something that Hansi Kürsch doesn´t every time Blind Guardian plays the Bard´s Song. The entire crowd ends up singing it while he stares at them silently except, of course, for the parts he wants to sing (after all it´s his band and those are their concerts).

@@mariojorgetoirac709 Judas Priest had an audience sing the entirety of Breaking the law

Quite truth indeed. It would be interesting to see which one of them is the most chanted, but I don´t know, there´s this inner voice telling me that is this one :D

I'm a die hard Blind Guardian fan but even i can come up with a lil band, probly not many know about them called Queen with songs like We will rock you and We are the champions that the crowds were pretty much into singing along. But i agree that the bard song is right up there with all the song afore mentioned.

MachineGodGaming honestly, I like the music a lot; but after watching plenty of live videos, I wouldn’t. The energy is only in the crowd, they’re boring on stage. I love feeling that energy flowing both ways. Exchange of energy, that’s spiritual. These guys don’t really facilitate that, IMO. Don’t get me wrong, I love the band, I just wouldn’t pay to be there.

It's a great experience live

Feel free to skip my excessive reply but comments like these have been seriously irking me for all my 20 years as a fan. You aren't "getting" it because you're what a lot of people might refer to as "a normal dude who likes metal" and that is just fine. It isn't meant as an insult, but I'm sure it'll come off a little dickish of me. Blind Guardian isn't really made with your tastes in mind. I know I'm shining an elitist douche spotlight on myself, but that's unavoidable because I'm kind of an elitist douchebag loser. I don't mean you can't enjoy their music, I just legitimately don't understand how people who aren't fucking gigantic weirdos with no social skills like me will ever get anywhere near as much out of the music as I do. It is for true doom murder head omega nerds who collected too many dragonlance novels and argue about which edition of Dungeons and Dragons is better for application to computer games. It's for folks who debate the connections between Stephen King novels and devolve entire metal forums into flame wars over whether or not the Drizz't Do Urden novels completely suck or not (they completely suck, btw.) About 18 years ago they had a vote on their website to choose the lyrical subject of a song on the upcoming album and god damn FINAL FANTASY VII was high in the running the entire time (lost to dragonlance). On their demo they wrote a fucking song about Monty Python's "Life of Brian" for fuck's sake. Blind Guardian is almost a parody of itself in how amazingly A++ nerds they are. Beyond the Red Mirror has a reference to Linux. It is nerdy ass music by nerds for nerds and I'm glad they aren't posturing on stage like the most successful American metal bands feel they need to. I think they're my favorite band specifically BECAUSE they don't look and act the way most metal bands act. There's no needless machismo, no image based bullshit; just phenomenal music played by amazing musicians in one of the warmest and most inviting environments you will ever see a "metal" band in.

Well if they played "last Candle" in front of me, it would indeed become spiritual since i'd probably die !

@@joelmacdonald6994 LOL best concert I've ever been to!

Odin: Who the fuck disturbs my slum-- oh. ...open the gates and let them in.

Yeah, I remember, and I am still upset that the video cuts so much off... also Mirror Mirror which was in between those two songs got cut :( Probably the best concert I ever attended

world's*

ill agree with Shini, WORLDS top metal bands!

And beyond! :D

till we enter Valhalla

DIE LEBERWURST!

@@kevboard Ich wollt's nicht sagen. :D

Wobei letztes Jahr "Friesenjung" von Otto hoch im Kurs war :D

The live performance from Imagination through the looking glass is for me the best thing ever performed in the genre of Power Metal (Don't get me wrong, there are so many awesome albums, but live these guys just finds a new level).

Niiiiiiiiiiightfaaaaaaaaaaaall Quietly crept in and changed us all Niiiiiiiiiiiightfaaaaaaaaaaaall Quietly crept in and changed us all Niiiiiiiiiiiiightfaaaaaaaaaaaall Immortal land lies down in agony :D

what i really dont get is why everyone keeps mentions them particular ones from nightfall and forget the most operatic one: Noldor

@@galadballcrusher8182 Yeah, Noldor and Thorn are my favorite songs from the Nightfall in Middle Earth.

@@Tycerax 2011 wasnt imaginations from the looking glass tho, that was 2003

Drove past the location those days, they are still singing....

This is a better version of this song: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nJieWJEXqKE.html

Time Stands Still is also awesome

@@MPnoir quite everything from blind guardian is outstanding

Wacken, population give or take about 1,800 to 2,000. Wacken during the open air festival population 75,000+. Now that is some impressive growth numbers. Shout out to the municipality of Wacken, I've seen cities of multiple millions screw up events numbering 25,000 or less. This little town owns one of the most amazing musical events and it does it bloody well.

The best Festival in the world (grettings Form Germany) ;)

@@stefanwagner7175 Jo Grüße zurück 🤘

Treffen wir uns da in 3 Wochen?

@@christophpoll784 nein, wir uns leider nicht

and tobias sammet too.

I still prefer Imaginations from the Other Side, being a fan since the early 90s, when my brother got their albums. Mainly because of The Script for My Requiem.

@@moomah5929 Noldor or The Eldar from Nightfall

As sad as this is... i found Blind Guardian out coz of a stupid flash game... looked up the song... thoroughly enjoyed the song and started looking into more songs... needless to say i Enjoy Blind Guardian... lol

IMMORTAL LAND LIES DOWN IN AGONY

Rory Murray i would suggest also “Somewhere Far Beyond”

Only one who could maybe compete would be Jorn, but yeah, Hansi is a fucking legend

I'd say the lead from Rhapsody of fire is a close second

Best? Ehh maybe, Daniel Heiman or Hansi for sure.

Kai Hansen? Michael Kiske? Tobbi? All power metal singers are amazing

Dio.

Come over here, wacken is great. The largest and best family you will ever find.

And the Tickets are sold out in 30 Minutes or less

I've been there twice (2008-2009), can't wait to go back with my elder son, Ozzy.

@@samueljoost320 21 Hours this year... (got my ticket nevertheless)

Just incredible the mood of festival, even before you get there, in the roads

Wheel of Time for me here. Well, to be honest I didn't think that upfront, but nine years after it was one of the songs that introduced me to metal just shortly after it's release... Yeah, nothing has ever topped it.

For me its the live version of Valhalla from the Imaginations dvd or And The Story Ends.

Noldor

Dito .. although "Spielmannsfluch" is pretty close.

Ooh nice choice. For some reason the music video version sounds best to my ears but it's one of many BG favourites of mine!

He doesn't react for free, you have to pay him

Don't forget Twisted Sister totally killing it on saturday!

I've been to Wacken in 2018 and 2019 (and will go again in 2020), every time I saw a 2016 Wacken shirt I got jealous about that lineup. Like holy, 2016 Wacken was amazing.

2k16 was Mystic in all his ways! I've been there for 20 Years now and have to say that 2011 and 2016 was one of the best years at Wacken for me. \w/

@@SickHumanity666 I've been at Wacken since the beginning in '94 and will be going till I die! There are memorable moments in every year but yes 11 and 16 were some of the greater years!

Would love to see an Avantasia reaction, so you get my upvote

Alex, you need Wheel of time. Do it, for us blind Guardian fans heheh

As a long time blind guardian fan I second the motion for wheel of time

Yes! Wheel of Time!!

Great song, great book series.

Just finished the eye of the world

Indeed my friend. The brotherhood you feel towards a fellow metalhead even though the other person is a complete stranger, you'll never get that feeling in any other genre's concert. Metal for life...

Ahh yes... metalheads sucking their own dicks again!

@@barnabasisegrim7482 no u

@@barnabasisegrim7482 yep thats something that happens pretty often, unfortunately. Just appreciate the joy you get from your favorite genre and dont degrade other genres. I'm a metal fan and I find this statement pretty hard to believe. It's music that connects people, not a specific genre but ye...

@@Gobboh I wish more people were as open-minded as you

ABSOLUTELY AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!

Man sollte ihn nach Wacken einladen, damit er sich den Wahnsinn mal live ansehen kann. Oder gibt esbei ihm einen System overload?

And Rammstein dude and fcking RAMMSTEIN!

@@cachechaot8139 Letztes mal als ich in Wacken war konnte man leider nichts mehr sehen, alles mit Werbung zu gekleistert.

Oder Rammstein

Reiter!

Yes absolutely! more German highclass bands

and next to new Rammstein song

ORDEN OGAN..

Yes! I'm gonna see Avantasia live next week and I'm so fucking excited 🤘🏼

You have to pay him 1st

D&W is a kind of fusion between Iced Earth and Blind Guardian, it really sound like both its crazy good !

@@avarast they are really good! If you like Blind Guardian you will probably like Demons & Wizards.

Honestly that concert is their best live anything. The crowd completely overtakes Hansi during Bard's Song.

Turn the page

And then there was silence...Epicness on par with the big Nightwish masterpieces ans such... A must !

One my favorite song is “FLY”.

Wheel of Time is one of my favorite songs ever! Never heard of Blind Guardian before and accidentally found out that someone made a song about The Wheel of Time book series which is my favorite series ever. After hearing the song, I cried and was a fan of theirs for all time!

And Then There Was Silence is the song of gods... man oh man

also A Voice In The Dark, for War Of The Thrones, i would suggest the piano version tho

@@ThorfinnrKarrson Yeah, Voice In The Dark is a good song, not my favorite though.

@@lino2048 yep, also not my favorite, yet the lyrics are about Bran ;D

@@ThorfinnrKarrson Perhaps he will react to two BG's songs again? :D

Can confirm myself now: we are stil singing!

Only if you pay him

And after that, he will be ready for Demons and wizards - The fiddler on the green.

That Album is Epic. My cousin made me discover the band with Night at the Opera. My best friend made me fall in love with the band with Nightfall on Middle-Earth and then gave me the Tokyo Tale album as a birthday present for my 18th birthday.

Either version, although I've actually prefer the new version now over the original. Never thought that would happend, but it has really grown on me.

Either the original version or Alive in Athens, Stu is a decent singer for sure, but does not compare to Barlow.

I used to request this every day for like 3 months straight lol. My all time favorite IE song

The Alive in Athens version can't be matched

You have to pay him 1st

Oh hell yes!

Agree, Iced is one of my top 10 favorite bands

And gotta finish the triad with Demons & Wizards

Iced Earth- A question of Heaven from Alive in Athens cd

And someone paid him to do it

@@dan6822 It's his work. Shouldn't he be paid because of his work?

@@LeonBlackbird not saying he shouldn't, could be more up front about it though.

Or Hall of the Mountain King live

Or Infinity!!

WACKEEEN!

it IS the biggest atm... Ok, not this year 😪 but in metal we trust... rain or shine. 😉 The best... For me it is 50 minutes by car... 😂

Pay him and he will

or another song from "Nightfall In Middle-Earth" like Noldor or Nightfall

@@wishmaster1108 not happening... unless you pay. That's how this works. Not joking.

^^^ probably the best and most powerful song on the album.

@@dan6822 Depends on the channel, I guess. Some are more liberal about their choice, some are strictly "business". For the latter, it is easy to become flooded with mainstream Metal suggestions, thus becoming less adventurous. If someone does not keep a place for the lesser-known and the unexpected in his reaction schedule - the loss is theirs... Alex is singular in how he imbues his reactions with a lively and positive vibe, so I keep coming back even despite the preeminence of various "core" bands in his book. The guy is ahead of the "also-ran" pack in HOW he does it. :)

They may take our lives! But they'll never take OUR BARD'S SONG - William Wallace from Braveheart

I hate you! lol Can you ask if they plan to ever come to Middle Earth? Aka, New Zealand.

@@Kiwi_Tea When i meet Marcus or Andre at the Store next time, i will ask!

@@marcelf4713 You're epic dude, thanks!

It's not free

If you pay him he will

@@dan6822 not interested

@@nikolashorianopoulos4460 then neither is Alex Hefner lol

Redneck Metalhead I almost forgot about it Im stoked af

Always!