"The Raven Child" is... definitely a song. Just kinda chewing on it at the moment, not sure what I think yet.
Is that good or bad?
Found it on youtube, maybe a leak? Listening now.
It's probably the radio rip. In my opinion... not necessarily bad, just not memorable or noteworthy at all. Reminds me of The Mystery of Time, and it gave me the exact same feeling I had around Edguy's Age of the Joker: again, not necessarily
bad but so far removed from the sound that I fell in love with that I'm just kinda left shrugging at this. Lately I've also grown far more critical of Tobi's Avantasia lyrics and there's not a single thing here that jumps out to me, it's just another word salad fiesta with a bunch of lines about waiting and not understanding and his mind and heart and seeing everything before his eyes etc: the now-quintessential Tobias Sammet rambling
Like the Metal Operas were concept albums and pretty corny admittedly but at least the lyrics kind of made sense in the context of a real story with actual characters. Most of the lyrics between The Scarecrow and this could be swapped and the songs would thematically remain every bit as enigmatic and meandering. (Don't get me wrong though, I enjoy it, it's silly fun, the last couple minutes with Jorn are like The Scarecrow but maybe not as good as that particularly awesome passage)