For the people of Ancaria

Band | Blind Guardian
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Album | At the Edge of Time
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Year | 2010

"Remember fellow Ancarians: this world is Sacred"

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I got this album today. I started Audiosurf up, I listened the first four songs with it. I fell in love.

Probably the most famous and anticipated track on this album is "Sacred Worlds" or "Sacred" as it was previously known.

I had already fallen in love with the older and shorter -- 6.12 minutes in duration -- version of this song, I heard it very first time on the intro in Deep Silver's game "Sacred 2: Fallen Angel" (a game I never got around to play afterwards, the song literally took all the fame) and I was immediately suckered in to its awesomeness.


So you can only assume, it had become one of my favourite audio compositions, ever which in turn raised the expectations for the "proper album extended version" sky high.

How could such a masterpiece on the auditory department possibly be made even better?
I have no idea, but heaven above they succeeded.


The album edition contains some pretty neat keyboard compositions as heard at the intro and outro, I can safely say that they are amongst the best intros and outros I've heard in a while.

They have modified the original song with carefully planned, subtle modifications which makes you beg the question: just how much better can this song get?

The number of instruments used was heightened; horns and deep, low bass only add to the epicness.

The vocals are the same as in the original version, so that is meant to sound familiar.

The big selling points on this song were always the first 2-3 seconds of the later choruses. I just love how they made the transition from verses to choruses, it's so brutal, yet so fluid. It's the kind of effect you have to hear to understand, hint hint.

I don't know what it is, but somehow I see the last chorus on the extended version seemingly less powerful than on the original, might be only my paranoia, you never know.

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All in all, the song is freaking awesome. I loved the first version and I equally love this extended version.

Hear it, for your own good.

These first few entries are copy-pasted from my PlayDotA's blog;

dates and such are most likely dated.