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Follow the Blind

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Track listing
Lineup
Band Guest musicians Personnel
Charts
Lyrical References
References

{{Infobox album
| name = Follow the Blind
| type = studio
| artist = Blind Guardian
| cover = Blind guardian follow the blind.jpg
| alt =
| released = 14 April 1989^[1]
| recorded = January-February 1989 at Karo Studios, Münster, West Germany
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|Speed metal|thrash metal}}
| length = 42:00
| label = No Remorse, Virgin, Century Media
| producer = Kalle Trapp
| prev_title = Battalions of Fear
| prev_year = 1988
| next_title = Tales From the Twilight World
| next_year = 1990
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Follow the Blind
| type = studio
| single1 = Banish from Sanctuary
| single1date = 1989
}}
}}{{Album reviews
| rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} ^[2]
| rev2 = Rock Hard
| rev2Score = (7.5/10)^[3]
| rev3 = Metal1
| rev3Score = (7.5/10)^[4]
}}

Follow the Blind is the second full-length album from the German metal band Blind Guardian. It was released in 1989 and is more in the vein of speed metal, compared to the style that would later define the band's unique sound. According to guitarist Marcus Siepen, "When we were doing Follow the Blind we were listening to a lot of thrash metal bands like Testament or Forbidden, and that's why Follow the Blind was a bit heavier".^[5] The album was remastered, remixed and re-released on 15 June 2007, with the whole second demo tape, Battalions of Fear, of the band (at the time called Lucifer's Heritage) as part of the bonus tracks. The album was again re-released as part of the A Traveler's Guide to Space and Time boxset with minor adjustments to the mixing and with new mastering. "Banish from Sanctuary" was released as a single to promote this album.

Track listing

{{track listing
|notes = yes
|title1 = Inquisition
|music1 = Hansi Kürsch, André Olbrich, Marcus Siepen, Thomas Stauch
|lyrics1 = N/A
|length1 = 0:40
|title2 = Banish from Sanctuary
|music2 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics2 = Kürsch
|length2 = 5:27
|title3 = Damned for All Time
|music3 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics3 = Kürsch
|length3 = 4:57
|title4 = Follow the Blind
|music4 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics4 = Kürsch
|length4 = 7:10
|title5 = Hall of the King
|music5 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics5 = Kürsch
|length5 = 4:16
|title6 = Fast to Madness
|music6 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics6 = Kürsch
|length6 = 5:57
|title7 = Beyond the Ice
|music7 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics7 = N/A
|length7 = 3:28
|title8 = Valhalla (ft. Kai Hansen, Gamma Ray, ex-Helloween)
|music8 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics8 = Kürsch
|length8 = 4:56
|title9 = Don't Break the Circle{{ref|track 10|†}}
|note9 = Demon cover
|music9 = Spooner, Hill
|lyrics9 = Mal Spooner, Dave Hill
|length9 = 4:28
|title10 = Barbara Ann{{ref|track 10|†}}
|note10 = The Regents and Beach Boys cover. Transitions into a cover of Long Tall Sally by Little Richard from 1:06 to the end.
|music10 = Fred Fassert
|lyrics10 = Fred Fassert
|length10 = 1:43
}}{{track listing
|headline = 2007 re-release bonus tracks
|title11 = Majesty (Demo Version)
|music11 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics11 = Kürsch
|length11 = 7:16
|title12 = Trial by the Archon (Demo Version)
|music12 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics12 = (instrumental)
|length12 = 3:53
|title13 = Battalions of Fear (Demo Version)
|music13 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics13 = Kürsch
|length13 = 6:21
|title14 = Run for the Night (Demo Version)
|music14 = Kürsch, Olbrich, Siepen, Stauch
|lyrics14 = Kürsch
|length14 = 4:29
}}{{note|track 10|†}} "Don't Break the Circle" was not featured on the vinyl LP release. As such, "Barbara Ann" appears track number 9 on the LP version.

Lineup

Band

Hansi Kürsch - vocals and bass
André Olbrich - lead guitar and backing vocals
Marcus Siepen - rhythm guitar and backing vocals
Thomas "Thomen" Stauch - drums

Guest musicians

Kai Hansen - vocals and guitar solo on "Valhalla", guitar solo on "Hall of the King"
Mathias Wiesner - keyboards
Kalle Trapp - lead guitar and vocals on "Barbara Ann"
Thomas Hackmann - backing vocals
Rolf Köhler - backing vocals and lead vocals on "Barbara Ann"
Aman Malek - backing vocals

Personnel

Kalle Trapp – recording, mixing and producing
van Waay Design – cover art

Charts

{{album chart|Germany4|51|id=47828|artist=Blind Guardian|album=Follow the Blind|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 September 2018}}

Chart (2018)	Peak position

Lyrical References

"Inquisition" is a version of the Latin phrase Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem ({{smallcaps|english:}} O sweet Lord Jesus, grant them rest) chanted as it would be by monks. The phrase forms part of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, and is also identical to that which is chanted by the monks in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
"Damned for All Time" and "Fast to Madness" are based on Michael Moorcock's characters from Eternal Champion series.
"Banish from Sanctuary" is based on the life of John the Baptist.
"Follow the Blind" is based on Stephen King & Peter Straub's The Talisman.
"Hall of the King" is about the faith and being faithful.
"Valhalla" references the Mythological Valhalla, and the song is about a wizard who deplores the loss of his people's mythology, hinting at the historical shift from the Norse pagan religion to Christianity.
"Fast to Madness" contains reference to Elric of Melniboné, the doomed albino Emperor of Melniboné, who finds Stormbringer, a sword created by Chaos, which causes him to be alienated from his close friends and his family, taking souls from each of them, eventually even taking his own soul for fulfilling the hunger of Stormbringer

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Blind_Guardian/Follow_the_Blind/10|title=Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind|website=Encyclopaedia Metallum|access-date=December 28, 2018}}
2. ^{{Allmusic|first=Jason|last=Anderson|class=album|id=mw0000606478|accessdate=18 May 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|last=Trojan|first=Frank|title=Rock Hard|url=http://www.rockhard.de/megazine/reviewarchiv/review-anzeigen.html?tx_rxsearch_pi1%5Breview%5D=6309|work=issue 32|accessdate=20 May 2013}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.metal1.info/reviews/reviews.php?rev_id=10 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-05-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016065847/http://www.metal1.info/reviews/reviews.php?rev_id=10 |archivedate=2012-10-16 |df= }}
5. ^MetalKings.com interview with Markus

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