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Perhaps it’s their weakest album: Hansi did not start his vocal trainings yet, his voice was quite coarse, and Kai’s vocal didn’t actually cheer up the band. You can hear his voice as a backing vocal in "Valhalla" and "Banished from Sanctuary".
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Kai Hansen from Helloween took part in the recording of this album (at No Remorse director’s will). Released in the following year Follow the Blind (1988) was a little bit weaker. In my view the best compositions are Majesty, Run for the Night and The Martyr. There are also titles related to it: By the Gates of Moria and Gandalf's Rebirth. The influence of Tolkien’s trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" was quite obvious in that album, especially in Majesty. Having signed a contract with No Remorse Records in 1986 they released their fist album named Battalions of Fear. After that bards decided to change the name of their band into something less drastic than "Lucifer's Heritage" and so the new name became Blind Guardian. Two demo-versions of "Symphonies of Doom" and "Battalions of Fear" released in 1985 were quite successful for this band, especially the latter. The band came into existence in a small German town Krefeld (their recording studio is still in the suburbs of this town) under the influence of RPG and metal band Helloween. Thus at this moment the band consists of following bards: Hansi Kursch - vocals and sometimes bass guitar, Andre Olbrich - lead guitar and backing vocals, Marcus Siepen - lead guitar too and rhythm guitar, the drummer is Thomas Stauch. We played the first concerts all over Germany, and we drew a lot of attention by this small amount of fan ship we had, so we could raise that up until the point of today." (laughing) Yeah, with the first album, Battalions of Fear, we already had a certain success in the German underground, but nowhere else. And in '87, we got the first record deal with a company called No Remorse Records, a young, independent label in those days which later on became bankrupt, which saved our asses. And, of course on Battalions of Fear you mainly could listen to songs which have been on the Battalions album in different versions. One was called Battalions of Fear, and the other one was called Symphonies of Doom. Before we joined together, we did two demos. But after a while, rather soon in '86, we joined together in that line-up. So it was not always like Marcus, Andre, Thom, and me.
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But once we found out we joined together, and we did that band Lucifer's Heritage, and from the beginning, we had the ambition to become professional musicians, and we had certain different musicians who came and go. I mean, he knew that I was in the metal scene, but it wasn't so obvious that he was a metal fan. The band me and Andre played in before was called Lucifer's Heritage and we started in '85 when we both met at school, and we afterwards found out that we were both very interested in metal.