Blind Guardian share an update on the status of their songwriting

In a recent video message, Hansi Kürsch, the frontman of Blind Guardian, provided an update on the status of the composition sessions for the German power metal band’s 2022 album “The God Machine” sequel, as per Blabbermouth.

Hello, everybody. This is a short message from Blind Guardian. We just wanna give you a heads up where we are at and what we are thinking about at the moment. Right now, we are just back from being completely lazy. We dived into songwriting very carefully. We are not too far yet. Allow us another, let’s say, four or five months before I can be more precise in terms of the songwriting and into which direction it goes.

We did some songwriting during the touring period, but we took that aside and, yeah, maybe [we’ll] use it later on. But for now, we are having fresh minds — surprise, surprise. The aim is to have a pre-production ready to go at the end of 2026. I’m pretty sure we can keep that, and then there should be a full production in the beginning of 2027.

Nuclear Blast published “The God Machine” in September 2022. Peter Mohrbacher created the CD’s cover art. The all-orchestral album “Twilight Orchestra: Legacy Of The Dark Lands” by Blind Guardian, released in November 2019 through Nuclear Blast, was the band’s most recent release until “The God Machine” arrived. Lead guitarist André Olbrich and Kürsch collaborated with German popular novelist Markus Heitz, whose book “Die Dunklen Lande” was published in March 2019, to develop the idea. The precursor to “Legacy Of The Dark Lands” takes place in 1629.

“Beyond The Red Mirror” was Blind Guardian’s last “regular” studio album, released in 2015. It was Blind Guardian’s first LP since “At The Edge Of Time” in 2010, which was the longest time the band had gone without a studio album. Additionally, it was the band’s first album without bassist Oliver Holzwarth since “Imaginations From The Other Side” in 1995. Kürsch, lead guitarist André Olbrich, and rhythm guitarist Marcus Siepen make up Blind Guardian’s core trio. Dutch bassist Johan Van Stratum joined the group in 2021, while drummer Frederik Ehmke has been a member since 2005. Before Ehmke took over, drummer Thomen Stauch contributed to Blind Guardian’s first seven albums. “A Twist In The Myth” by Blind Guardian marked Frederik’s music debut in 2006.