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Tales from the Emerald Sword Saga: Best Of [Enhanced]
Tales from the Emerald Sword Saga: Best Of [Enhanced]
Track Listings
| 1. Warrior Of Ice |
| 2. Rage Of The Winter |
| 3. Forest Of Unicorns |
| 4. Land Of Immortals (Remake) |
| 5. Emerald Sword |
| 6. Wisdom Of The Kings |
| 7. Wings Of Destiny |
| 8. Riding The Winds Of Eternity (Edit) |
| 9. Dawn Of Victory |
| 10. The Village Of Dwarves |
| 11. Rain Of A Thousand Flames |
| 12. Knightrider Of Doom |
| 13. March Of The Swordmaster |
| 14. Power Of The Dragonflame |
| 15. Lamento Eroico |
| 16. Holy Thunderforce (Video) |
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
For the past seven years or, to be more precise, since the opening tones of their sensational debut album, Legendary Tales, Rhapsody have been one of the most unusual phenomena of the current metal scene. The huge range of their creativity, the number of legendary compositions that the Italian band, with their primary members, guitarist Luca Turilli and keyboarder Alex Staropoli, have released so far is now documented in their "Best Of" album Tales From The Emerald Sword Saga. Rhapsody is unique in the true meaning of the word. 16 tracks, the most unusual and the favourites in the Rhapsody saga to date, with a total playing time of over 70 minutes, as well as several valuable add-ons, (something which has almost become a firm tradition for Rhapsody) make Tales From The Emerald Sword Saga a highly interesting release for fans old and new.
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Tales from the Emerald Sword Saga (Best Of)
Rhapsody Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
Progressive Metal
| Progressive
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Hard Rock & Metal
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B0001DD94U Release Date: 2005-01-25 |
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Album Description
Full Title - Tales From The Emerald Sword Saga. Strictly limited edition boxed digipak of the progressive metal outfit's 2004 best of-album features 16 tracks including favorites & some of the more unusual to date, plus the newly edited video clip for 'Holy Thunderforce'. Includes photo cards, poster, & sticker. Limb Music Products.Customer Reviews:
Decent compilation despite obvious restrictions..........2004-04-22
In reality, you really do get the best of best (for the most part) when it comes to the included tracks, but I'm sure some Rhapsody fans would probably ague with me here, and I'd expect that as there are some really good songs missing, but among these songs are mainly the long epics (like Angels, Gargoyles of Darkness from Power of the Dragonflame, which clocks in at over 19 minutes) and well, I don't really think you'd want to sacrifice 5 to 6 of the shorter songs for one song (no matter how good it is!) This could have been solved by having a double disc, but I really don't think that would be necessary, because most fans are going to have all the bands works anyway and raising the price wouldn't be a good thing either.
As for the video clip on the CD, if you have already acquired the video for "Holy Thunderforce" from the limited double-disc edition of Dawn of Victory, it is almost the same on this disc, except for one major difference - it is now in black and white and made to look dated, to increase the medieval feeling the video has. Not really anything too new or great, but a nice touch. I personally would like to have had the "Rain of a Thousand Flames" video instead of the updated "Holy Thunderforce" video, but oh well.
As for the box set goodies, mentioned above, include a sticker that has the same artwork as the front of the box set (which I like the sticker, but I hate using cool stickers, because I always lose or quit using what I place them on, grrr!), a "small" poster of the CD case's artwork (which I think was neat putting all six covers of their previous releases together separated by swords in a pie formation), and finally picture cards of each band member and a group shot. The cards are a nice touch, but I feel I can't do much with them, because I want to keep them in a safe place so they stay nice, along with the rest of the box and extras (thus I placed the CD and booklet in a different case.) This is underscored by the fact the CD and booklet come in a cardboard digi-pack instead of a jewel case, but the digi-pack is very, very nicely done though.
So in the end, if you're a big Rhapsody fan, you probably have all the music included here if you have all the Rhapsody CD's, but you'll probably want the extra's this box set offers. On the other hand, if your new to Rhapsody, and is you first purchase of the band's music, this is probably a good place to start as it gives you a little morsel of each of the band's releases (but in that case just settle for the normal edition of this CD without the extras.) All in all, I'm glad I got this release and even paid a little more of the box set. The only thing left to say is "when is the new Rhapsody CD coming out?"
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Tales from the Emerald Sword Saga (Best Of)
Rhapsody Manufacturer: Jvc Victor ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
Progressive Metal
| Progressive
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B0001ZX326 Release Date: 2004-06-14 |
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Album Details
Japanese Release featuring an Enhanced Video for 'holy Thunderforce'.Customer Reviews:
And these guys aren't famous in the US?.......2004-07-24
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