#marcus siepen

[feas-silm-project]

Ok this is not silm or lotr related but the Nightfall in Middle Earth Album was the reason I started reading the silm at all…

So have my frustration management drawing of Marcus Siepen from my absolutely favorite of all time in forever and ever band Blind Guardian!!

[mystical-old-bard]

I love these photos! :)

[sea-of-machines]

André is wearing a sonic shirt xd

[blindguardians]

the iconic halloween performance of 2015 (at the palladium, worcester, usa)

[metalsongoftheday]

Friday, December 6: Blind Guardian, "This Will Never End"

Thomas Stauch supposedly left Blind Guardian because he felt they had gone a few steps too far into orchestral bombast on A Night at the Opera, and he wasn’t very wrong about that.  But he also didn’t really think things through, since Hansi Kürsch and André Olbrich pretty quickly recalibrated on A Twist in the Myth and crafted something that was at least more direct if not straightforward.  To be sure, they recalibrated rather than retreated: “This Will Never End” had the same inflated sense of drama and sideways arrangements that made A Night at the Opera an occasionally obtuse experience, but there was also more force and crunch in the playing and production, with Frederik Ehmke’s drumming fairly high in the mix.  Kürsch likewise fused his usual histrionics with a little more bite, and the track, while arguably kicking off Blind Guardian’s legacy era, had a singularity that was distinct to these four individuals.

[mistray-art]

B&W inking studies of different musicians I did last year as a value practice (with no sketch or underdrawing).

[4-8 september 2022]

(Queueing old art everyday just for the sake of keeping this blog mildly updated).

[videomessiah]

Blind Guardian were awesome in Toronto! (May 9, 2024)

[wish-i-could-fly-like-superman]

idk how to caption, screenshot from blind guardian ig story