Artist: Blind Guardian
Title: Somewhere Far Beyond
Label: Nuclear Blast
Cat #: NB41662
Release Year: 2017
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel case
Quality: New Sealed

Remastered edition of Somewhere Far Beyond the fourth album from Blind Guardian

Somewhere Far Beyond is the fourth studio album by German power metal band Blind Guardian. It was released in 1992 and produced by Kalle Trapp. The cover artwork was created by Andreas Marschall, who also drew the artwork for other Blind Guardian's releases (Tales from the Twilight World, Nightfall in Middle-Earth, etc.). The album saw the band creating its own original sound, while still employing most of their speed/power metal techniques.

The cover art and the two "Bard's Songs" gave the band its nickname "The Bards". The use of the nickname has been also extended to the fans of the group, Circle of the Bards being the now defunct fan club, and Hansi Kürsch frequently calling the fans "Bards".

"The Piper's Calling" contains the first three parts of the Great Highland Bagpipe 2/4 March, "The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar", written by Pipe Major John MacDonald of the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameronian Volunteers). Part of this composition also appears as a section of the title track, this time played on a different type of bagpipe.

The album was acclaimed by power metal fans all across Europe and especially Japan, allowing them to tour for the first time outside Germany. The tour in the Far East led to the band's first live album, Tokyo Tales.

Recommended if you like: Sonata Arctica, HammerFall, Gamma Ray, Edguy, Helloween, Rhapsody of Fire, DragonForce, Avantasia, Kamelot, Stratovarius, Sabaton, PowerWolf 

Track Listing:
01. Time What Is Time
02. Journey Through The Dark
03. Black Chamber
04. Theatre Of Pain
05. The Quest For Tanelorn
06. Ashes To Ashes
07. The Bard’s Song: In The Forest
08. The Bard’s Song: The Hobbit
09. The Piper’s Calling
10. Somewhere Far Beyond
11. Spread Your Wings
12. Trial By Fire
13. Theatre Of Pain (classic version)

Bonus:
14. Ashes To Ashes (demo)
15. Time What Is Time (demo)