Raffle: Win a signed "Imaginations from the Other Side" artwork!
Added 2024-06-18 15:00:01 +0000 UTCThis is your chance to win a signed "Imaginations from the Other Side artwork". Signed by Hansi, Marcus, Frederik & André.
Just comment below with a creative and/or funny answer!
Please let us know why you are the one! The band will select the best answer.
The competition runs until 25.06.2024 6pm CET. We will contact the winner here on patreon via private message. Free shipping included. Looking forward to your answers.
Cheers, Hansi, André, Marcus & Frederik
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In case you wonder why "The band will select the best answer". For a contest to be allowed on Patreon, the winner cannot be determined by pure chance.
Winning the contest doesn’t depend on luck/chance - that's why we have to select the best answer.
Read on: https://blog.patreon.com/patreons-stance-on-raffles-lotteries-and-giveaways
Comments
Thank you all for the great answers! The winner is Josh this time :)
Blind Guardian
2024-06-26 13:28:46 +0000 UTCHey guys, Once again, I hope it's okay to talk about "Imaginations from the Other Side", and the story in it. For sure, I see why it's a great opener - considering the music, of course, but also the lyrics. The story of getting from the ordinary, serious, boring life to the places where we would want to be, places we dreamt of. Getting back from where we have lost it to the time when we knew the answers, and these answers mattered to us. And perfect for the concert - so you can proceed with those actual stories, and really take us there. And it worked. It worked, for sure. I guess I underestimated the magic of hearing it and seeing you in real life. Because for me, the magic happened. Okay, it may be silly to use your exact words, but I was in darkness for a while, and I lost myself, and I needed so bad to get home, to get to where I belong, yet there was no way of even coming up with the idea of what that home might be. And then your voice brought me home. Okay, I may still use your words - it broke down the walls around my heart, and suddenly I realized that my home was with me all along, in all those stories and songs, patiently waiting for me. And I may not know yet _where_ I belong in the real world, but I know what I belong _to_ - and this is more than enough. There was one particular story that I learned from you just recently, the story of the American Gods, and this was exactly the right thing at the right time. Of course, there were answers to my personal questions, including the one above - that we may not belong here, we may never belong, but it is okay, because we are who we are. And if even Neil himself may not be sure, if he understood America after all, it is fine for me to admit the same. Yet there was something that we both understood. Because I had another book waiting on my shelf for a couple weeks, a book with Neil's foreword, that I was a little scared to approach, because it already meant too much for me. But, thanks to you, I got to know Neil the writer, so I went for it - and, through his words, got to know Neil the person. Neil the friend. Neil the child who "read short stories that ripped my mind open" - those dark, disturbing stories of angry gods. Of the old gods that were abandoned and stripped off their powers by the new god. Of unholy god of the new times, god of fog and street and people. Neil, who "was not the person I had been before I read these stories". Though it was the exact opposite for me - these stories brought me exactly to the person I was. Because there was The Story, of course, that changed me - and both Neil and Harlan, his mentor and friend, were a part of it. And that was also coming home. Finally coming home. And, if everything I just said doesn't make much sense to you, please just believe me: things like this are the greatest gifts, this particular little thing means a world to me, and I am eternally grateful to you for inspiring me. This may not be a fancy thing like writing a book or performing music, but you bring me a lot of love and joy. You guide me to revisit so many things I loved, and add new things to try that I'm sure I will love. And, who knows, maybe someday I will make something that actually counts.
Katerina Kalinevich
2024-06-25 04:14:26 +0000 UTC
