'', released
April 6 th,
2004 (see
2004 In Music ), is the sixth
Album by the
Power Metal Band Edguy . The music of the band is supported by a German
Orchestra , the 'Filmorchester Babelsberg'.
In contrast to their previous albums, 'Hellfire Club' owes more to the sound of
Iron Maiden than their biggest influence
Helloween , both in vocals and in music. The first track 'Mysteria' opens with the introduction '"Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome - to the Freak Show!"', followed by a
Guitar Riff that is unusually dark and heavy for Edguy's standards. The rest of the album generally follows this scheme, with a few exceptions:
- 'We Don't Need A Hero' is a very fast, upbeat song with the anthemic quality typical for the band.
- The mid-tempo song 'King of Fools' was the first single of the album and provided the band with the opportunity to have a TV appearance in the German 'Pro7 McChart Show', which was heavily criticised by fans who sensed a sellout.
- 'Lavatory Love Machine' is one of the band's several joke songs and is unusual in that it is more accurately described as Hard Rock than Heavy Metal . The silly lyrics (the song is about Tobias sitting in an aeroplane headed for Brazil that is going to crash and him having sex in the toilet with the stewardess) sparked some controversy, but most fans attribute this to Sammet's somewhat strange kind of humour and leave it at that.
- 'The Spirit Will Remain' is an operatic ballad wherein Tobias sings before a purely orchestral backdrop.
The bonus track 'Children of Steel', originally an early demo, was re-recorded for this album. The bonus track version of Mysteria features
Mille Petrozza of the German
Thrash Metal band
Kreator on lead vocals.
# "Mysteria" - 5:44
# "The Piper Never Dies" - 10:05
# "We Don't Need a Hero" - 5:30
# "Down to the Devil" - 5:27
# "King of Fools" - 4:21
# "Forever" - 5:40
# "Under the Moon" - 5:04
# "Lavatory Love Machine" - 4:25
# "Rise of the Morning Glory" - 4:39
# "Lucifer in Love" - 0:32
# "Navigator" - 5:22
# "The Spirit Will Remain" - 4:12
- "Children of Steel" - 4:03
- "Mysteria (feat. Mille Petrozza)" - 5:32
