Blind Guardian's fifth album, Imaginations From the Other Side, has the Germans picking up pretty much where the prior Somewhere Far Beyond left off and that, in all honesty, is the best thing Blind Guardian could have done after the power metal masterpiece that was Somewhere Far Beyond. When a band has something that good going for them I really don't see why they'd want to change it, and that's exactly what happens here, following pretty much the same sort of structure as before which is a bunch of power metal anthems of the kind they'd made us listeners accustomed to by this stage, topped off by Hansi Kürsch's amazing voice, but also slowing back to show their soft side with a folk ballad, A Past and Future Secret.