And Then There Was Silence

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"And Then There Was Silence"
Single by Blind Guardian
from the album A Night at the Opera
Released 12 November 2001
Recorded Twilight Hall Studios, Grefrath (Germany)
Genre Power metal
Length 23:03
Label Virgin
Producer Charlie Bauerfeind
Blind Guardian singles chronology
"Mirror Mirror"
(1998)		 "And Then There Was Silence"
(2001)		 "The Bard's Song (In the Forest)"
(2003)

"And Then There Was Silence" is a single by the German power metal band Blind Guardian, released in 2001. It is also a song on their A Night at the Opera album and the single. The song is based on The Iliad by Homer and on the Aeneid by Virgil. The events described in the song are the visions of the final days of Troy, as foreseen by Cassandra, daughter of the king of the destroyed city.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "And Then There Was Silence" – 14:07
  2. "Harvest of Sorrow" – 3:39
  3. "Born in a Mourning Hall" (multimedia track) – 5:17

[edit] Lineup

[edit] Personnel


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