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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075678959295 Label: Lava Manufacturer: Lava Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Lava Release Date: 2009-10-26 Studio: Lava
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Editorial Reviews: Five years since their last release, Trans-Siberian Orchestra return with a double album of all new material, entitled 'Nightcastle'. 'Nightcastle' is the Capra- esque story of someone changing their life for the better. The physical version of the album includes a 68 full color illustrated booklet.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Awsome CD Comment: This is a Awsome CD waited a long time for it to come out!!!! well worth the wait. Customer Rating: Summary: Mary Comment: I purchased two of the Night Castle, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, for gifts and then later ordered one for myself. I really like this music and the price was very good from Amazon. Customer Rating: Summary: Could have created this CD on a Korg Triton Comment: I have thoroughly enjoyed TSO's previous releases. The music was stirring, had original arrangements, and featured well sung and well written lyrics. However this new album just falls flat in every category. First off, the instruments (especially the drum kit) sounds like they were programed on a Korg Triton keyborad. There is no way you could convince me that the strings on the album were studio recorded, something I would expect from the a band that hires out an orchestra at every concert! Then the songs, so incredibly repetitive that they bore me and I find myself skipping ahead in the album. The vocalists sound like they are trying to bring emotion into these emotionless songs so I can't fault them for making the attempt. About half the songs sound like I've heard them before. The whole thing just seems like it was rushed through but we've been waiting for 5 years for this. I'm completely disseminated and I'm now just hopeful of something better in the future. Customer Rating: Summary: Disappointing, Redundant, and Uninspired Comment: After fully listening to both discs , despite the large volume of music, I still was left feeling somehow "shorted" by this album. First off, almost one third of this material is either directly stolen from the Savatage back-catalogue or rehashed versions of previous TSO riffs. Secondly, I felt the vocals on this seemed emotionally "forced" and uninspired, I was almost literally inadvertantly laughing at some of the forced emotional "cheesiness" in the lyrics and the vocal performances. While TSO has never put out a "bad" album , I would definitely rank this dead last in their discography. My personal favorite is their very underrated " Beethoven's Last Night" which I thought was their most original, cohesive, and emotionally compelling album to date. This "Night Castle" while not entirely without merit, leaves the listener a bit disappointed, especially given the long wait between this and their last album one would hope they could have been a bit more creative than this. By the way, I am not just a casual TSO listener, but a long time "metal-head" that has followed this band since it's inception as Savatage in the mid 80s through their metamorphosis into TSO and to the present day. I think the reviewers giving this 5 stars are not being honest with themselves and certainly not being honest with you, the reader, who is coming on here looking for an objective review. "Beethoven's Last Night" and the original "Christmas Eve" are their true 5 star albums, "Night Castle" pales in comparison to the creativity, emotional sincerity, and cohesiveness of those two albums. To sum up, you've basically heard everything on here done before, and done better the first time around. p.s. Any version other than the John Oliva version of "Believe" is a sacrilege. Customer Rating: Summary: TSO ROcks! Comment: I am so used to hearing their Christmas Songs that this album is a welcomed change. It has the intensity of the others.