I’ve just posted my latest entry on my official author playlist over on my Substack. Today’s song is Blind Guardian’s epic retelling of the Trojan War, And Then There Was Silence — a song almost as epic as the source material…
Fun fact, in my first-year Classical Mythology class back at Carleton, we had an assignment that was basically “Do a write-up about media that’s about Mythology.”
I chose And Then There Was Silence, German Power Metal icons Blind Guardian‘s song about the Trojan War.
Now, as part of that assignment, we had to include either a link to or a copy of the thing we were writing about.
Even after single-spacing the lines, getting rid of the paragraph breaks, and reducing the font size, the copy of the lyrics I attached to my assignment still came in at 7 pages.
The actual assignment was, like, 3 and a half.
Granted, And There There Was Silence is 14 minutes long.
Clearly, Blind Guardian’s greatest strength is their subtlety and fondness for understatement…
Fittingly recorded for the album A Night at the Opera, And Then There Was Silence is certainly operatic — as the aforementioned 14-minute length may indicate.
The full post is on Substack:
Or you can just go straight to my playlist here.
[It hasn’t liked being directly embedded lately]
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