BLIND GUARDIAN: Pro-Shot Footage Of Wacken Open Air Performance

German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN performed at this year's edition of the Wacken Open Air […]

By Elina

• August 11, 2011

German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN performed at this year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival on Thursday, August 4 in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. The concert, which was broadcast live on German TV station ZDFkultur, can now be seen below.

Featured songs:

00:00 Welcome To Dying
05:17 Nightfall
11:26 Time Stands Still (At The Iron Hill)
16:45 Fly
23:09 Quest Of Tanelorn
29:31 Imaginations From The Other Side
36:45 The Bard's Song
40:40 Mirror Mirror

BLIND GUARDIAN is currently collaborating with Germany's best fantasy author Markus Heitz on an orchestral album which is expected to be released in 2012.

"At The Edge Of Time", the tenth studio album from BLIND GUARDIAN, sold around 4,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 108 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at position No. 1 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

BLIND GUARDIAN's previous CD, "A Twist In The Myth", opened with 3,000 units back in September 2006.

"At The Edge Of Time" entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 2 - the band's strongest chart showing ever in its home country.