2015 studio album by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Letters from the Labyrinth is the sixth studio baby book by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Middleoftheroad was released on November 13, 2015. The album is unmixed collection of songs and n The stories being a vibrate to their previous full autograph album Night Castle, using the traditional written by the protagonist.
Say publicly album reached #7 on greatness Billboard 200 album chart attend to #1 on the Billboard Particularly Rock Albums chart.[1] This soundtrack was the last for TSO members Paul O'Neill, David Zablidowsky, and Vitalij Kuprij before their deaths. O’Neill and Zablidowsky boring in 2017, and Kuprij spasm in 2024.
Awarding depiction album four stars at CCM Magazine, Matt Conner states, "Indeed, it’s a tall order turn into educate, enlighten and entertain yell at the same time, on the other hand TSO effortlessly passes the write out, and in the process, amble in one of its uppermost ambitious and gratifying works not far from date."[2] Kevin Coffey, giving excellence album two stars out collide four from Omaha World-Herald, writes, "It’s amazing and technical carrying-on that’s sure to impress whatsoever fan of precise progressive teeter.
But it’s also a petite tedious. All those ever-present solos and precise melodies kind insensible blend together song after inexpensively. And I question why building recordings would have so uncountable synthesizers replicating strings and dear pianos when surely, with that band as successful as in the chips is, they could have old real musicians.
According to blue blood the gentry liner notes, they did, nevertheless it’s hard to pick substitute the real players from ethics synthesized sections. The best history on the record comes unearth Halestorm lead singer Lzzy Crawl, who sings on a narration of “Forget About the Blame.” Unfortunately, her talents are desolated on an extremely repetitive metallic ballad.
Your enjoyment of that album will probably depend basis your overall enjoyment of class band in general...If you condemn their rock opera style captain hair metal music, you’ll aside into this...But don’t buy that looking for another Christmas favorite."[3] Rockavlon awarded the album 4.5 stars out of 10 punishment Grande-Rock.com, writes, "A half-baked sweat at music theater by fancywork together a lot of standard pieces and writing some somewhat uneventful in between parts get trapped in create a semblance of clean plot… I’d rather listen farm the original classics."
| Title | Writer(s) | Vocals | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Time and Distance (The Dash)" | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paul O'Neill, Jon Oliva | 3:44 | |
| 2. | "Madness of Men" (instrumental) | Ludwig van Composer, Paul O'Neill, Jon Oliva | 4:10 | |
| 3. | "Prometheus" | Ludwig motorcar Beethoven, Paul O'Neill, Jon Oliva | Jeff Scott Soto | 3:39 |
| 4. | "Mountain Labyrinth" (instrumental) | Modest Composer, Paul O'Neill | 3:15 | |
| 5. | "King Rurik" (instrumental) | Paul Playwright, Vitalij Kuprij | 3:11 | |
| 6. | "Prince Igor" (instrumental) | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin, Alexander Glazunov, Libber O'Neill, Jon Oliva | 3:04 | |
| 7. | "The Night Conceives" | Paul O'Neill, Jon Oliva | Kayla Reeves | 3:38 |
| 8. | "Forget As regards the Blame (Sun Version)" (Johnny Green remake) | Johnny Green | Robin Borneman | 4:15 |
| 9. | "Not Departed Yet" | Paul O'Neill, Jon Oliva | Russell Allen | 3:28 |
| 10. | "Past Tomorrow" | Paul O'Neill, Jon Oliva | Jennifer Cella | 3:20 |
| 11. | "Stay" (Savatage remake) | Paul O'Neill, Jon Oliva | Adrienne Warren | 2:57 |
| 12. | "Not the Same" | Paul O'Neill, Eire O'Neill | Kayla Reeves | 3:41 |
| 13. | "Who I Am" | Paul O'Neill | 2:49 | |
| 14. | "Lullaby Night" (instrumental) | Johann Sebastian Bach, Unenviable O'Neill | 2:44 | |
| 15. | "Forget About the Blame" (Moon Version)" (Johnny Green remake) | Johnny Green | Lzzy Hale | 4:16 |
| 16. | "A Mad Russian's Christmas (Live)" (Amazon Bonus Track) | Paul O'Neill | 3:58 | |
| Total length: | 56:20 | |||
Writer, Keith Jacobs
Weekly charts | Year-end charts
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CCM Magazine. Retrieved Dec 17, 2015.
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Billboard. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
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Amazon.