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Legendary Tales
''Legendary Tales'' is the debut studio album by Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody. It was released in 1997 on Limb Music. The album is the beginning of the Emerald Sword Saga. Track listing Personnel Band members * Fabio Lione - vocals * Luca Turilli - guitars * Alex Staropoli - keyboards *Daniele Carbonera - drums Guest musicians *Sascha Paeth - bass, acoustic guitars, mandolin * Robert Hunecke - bass *Manuel Staropoli - baroque recorder *Thomas Rettke, Cinzia Rizzo - backing vocals *Thomas Rettke, Robert Hunecke, Miro, Wolfgang Herbst, Rick Rizzo, Fabio Lione, Luca Turilli, Alex Staropoli, Cinzia Rizzo, Tatiana Bloch - Choir of Immortals *Anne Schnyder - lead violin *Anne Schnyder & Helia Davis - violins *Oliver Kopf - viola *Paul F. Boehnke - cello *Andre Neygenfind - contra bass Production *Produced by Sascha Paeth and Miro *Engineered and mixed by Sascha Paeth and Miro at Gate-Studio in Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhapsody Of Fire
Rhapsody of Fire (formerly known as Rhapsody) is an Italian symphonic power metal band formed by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli, widely seen as a pioneer of the symphonic power metal subgenre. Since forming in 1993 as Thundercross, the band has released twelve studio albums, two live albums, three EPs, and a Live DVD. Rhapsody of Fire is known for its conceptual lyrics that constitute a fantasy story throughout all of their albums from 1997 to 2011. After using the moniker of Rhapsody for nearly ten years, the band changed its name to Rhapsody of Fire in 2006 due to trademark issues. In 2011, following the release of their album ''From Chaos to Eternity'' which concluded The Dark Secret Saga, and after 18 years as co-leader of the band, Turilli left Rhapsody of Fire (on good terms) to form a new Rhapsody band, Luca Turilli's Rhapsody, along with two other members who left with him, Dominique Leurquin, Patrice Guers. They describe their discography as a parallel continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphonic Power Metal
Symphonic metal is a cross-generic style designation for the symphonic subsets of heavy metal music subgenres. It is used to denote any metal band that makes use of symphonic or orchestral elements. The style features the heavy drums and guitars of metal with different elements of orchestral classical music, such as symphonic instruments, choirs and sometimes a full orchestra, or just keyboard orchestration. Symphonic metal bands can feature classically trained vocalists, in which case they can be attributed nicknames such as opera metal or operatic metal. Perhaps the most pioneering and prominent examples of symphonic metal bands are Swedish band Therion, Finnish band Nightwish, Italian band Rhapsody of Fire and Dutch bands Within Temptation, The Gathering and Epica. All six bands place a large focus on elements prevalent in film scores in addition to the more basic classical components utilized more widely in the genre. Musical characteristics The metal subgenres most ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Debut Albums
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Contra Bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar in structure to the cello, it has four, although occasionally five, strings. The bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, along with violins, viola, and cello, ''The Orchestra: A User's Manual'' , Andrew Hugill with the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as the concert band, and is featured in Double bass concerto, concertos, solo, and chamber music in European classical music, Western classical music.Alfred Planyavsky [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hunecke-Rizzo
Robert Hunecke-Rizzo (17 June 1971 in Wolfsburg) is a German bassist, guitarist and drummer, known for his work with Heavens Gate, Luca Turilli, and Kamelot. He was one of the founding members of the supergroup Aina, which released the metal opera '' Days of Rising Doom'' in 2003. He was the music composer and played most of the instruments on the album. He was also a touring member as bass player of the metal opera project Avantasia, and his performance was thereby recorded on the band's live DVD ''The Flying Opera ''The Flying Opera'' is a boxed set containing two DVDs and two CDs by the German power metal band Avantasia, released in March 2011. Avantasia evolved from being a side-project of Edguy vocalist Tobias Sammet to a full-fledged band touring all o ...'' released in 2011. He was part of the Avantasia world tours in 2008 and 2010. References Living people Luca Turilli (band) members Luca Turilli's Dreamquest members German heavy metal bass guitarists Year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Lione
Fabio Tordiglione (born 9 October 1973), known professionally as Fabio Lione, is an Italian singer and lyricist who has worked with many bands in the metal genre. He was known for being the singer of Italian power metal band Rhapsody of Fire for 21 years. He later formed his own band Turilli / Lione Rhapsody with former Rhapsody of Fire guitarist Luca Turilli. He is also the current lead vocalist of Angra, and was the original singer of Labyrinth and Vision Divine. Musical career Lione was born in Pisa. His career started in 1990 at the age of 17 when he began to sing with a small rock and roll underground group who played classics of 1950s and 1960s similar to Elvis Presley's songs. He had a passion for groups such as Queensrÿche, Fates Warning, and Crimson Glory, which inspired him to form his own heavy metal band. His musical activities continued with a young group from Pisa, named Athena. They were a progressive metal band with their own unique style and challenged variou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Staropoli
Alessandro "Alex" Staropoli (born 9 January 1970) is a keyboard player, composer, leader and co-founder (with Luca Turilli) of the Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He does the orchestral arrangements in all the band's songs. Following the split with Turilli, Staropoli is Rhapsody of Fire's only remaining founding member. Biography Staropoli was born in Trieste. As a child he was mainly interested in nature – mountains, forests and lakes. At the age of nine he got his first piano and began to study its basics, and at the age of fourteen he bought his first electric guitar. After meeting Luca, but before the creation of Rhapsody of Fire, he bought a Korg 01/W The Korg 01/W is a workstation synthesizer, released in 1991, and was intended to replace the M1 and T series. The workstation/ ROMpler was based on AI², an improved version of the AI (Advanced Integrated) Synthesis technology found in the M1. T ... pro keyboard, a model he still uses. Alex and Luca me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Turilli
Luca Turilli (born 5 March 1972) is an Italian composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist constantly engaged in various musical projects. Having always declared to love music at 360 degrees, Turilli has dedicated himself to multiple musical genres, ranging from trance and electronic music of his first compositions to symphonic metal inspired by the world of soundtracks and also to modern pop and piano compositions of his current productions. He is one of the founders of the symphonic power metal band Rhapsody, later called Rhapsody of Fire., band for which he composed and arranged all music with his colleague Alex Staropoli from 1997 until the friendly split of 2011. After 2011 he released three more albums under the name Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and one under the name Turilli / Lione Rhapsody. In the early 2000s he also worked on a trilogy of solo albums as Luca Turilli, and released one album under the name of Luca Turilli's Dreamquest, a symphonic metal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
''Symphony of Enchanted Lands'' is the second studio album by Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody, released in 1998. It is the second part of the Emerald Sword Saga. Track listing Personnel Band members *Fabio Lione - lead & backing vocals *Luca Turilli - electric & acoustic guitars, part of the choirs *Alex Staropoli - keyboards, harpsichord, piano, part of the choirs *Alessandro Lotta - bass *Daniele Carbonera - drums and percussion Guest musicians *Sascha Paeth - acoustic guitars, mandolin, balalaika *Don Kosaken - Russian choirs *Helmstedter Kammerchor, conducted by Andreas Lamken - sacred choirs *Thomas Rettke, Robert Hunecke-Rizzo, Ricky Rizzo, Cinzia Rizzo, Tatiana Bloch, Davide Calabrese, Michele Mayer, Giuliano Tarlon, Cristiano Adacher, Manuel Staropoli - choirs *Constanze Backes - female baroque voice on "Symphony of Enchanted Lands" *Sir Jay Lansford - Narrator spoken parts *Erik Steenbock - marching drums *Manuel Staropoli - baroque recorders & baroque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony, located on the river Aller. It lies about east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the location of Volkswagen AG's headquarters and the world's biggest car plant. The Autostadt is a visitor attraction next to the Volkswagen factory that features the company's model range: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, Lamborghini, MAN, Neoplan, Porsche, Scania, SEAT, Škoda Auto and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Wolfsburg is one of the few German cities built during the first half of the 20th century as a planned city. From its founding on 1 July 1938 as a home for workers producing the "KdF- "Wagen" until 25 May 1945, the city was called Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben. In 1972, the population first exceeded 100,000. In 2019, the GRP was €188,453 per capita. Geography Wolfsburg is located at the Southern edge of the ancient river valley of the Aller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eternal Glory
Eternal Glory is a 1995 demotape released by Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody and their first release as Rhapsody. Early recordings In October 1994, the band, named Thundercross at that time, had finished recording their first demo ''Land of Immortals'' and started sending it to a selection of European labels. By the end of that year, an offer from LMP label came up. ;''Land of Immortals'' track listing As Rhapsody In 1995 the band had changed their name to "Rhapsody" and ''Eternal Glory'' was released as an official demo containing all the tracks from ''Land of Immortals'' plus three newly recorded songs. ;''Eternal Glory'' track listing Songs "Invernal Fury", "Warrior of Ice", "Alive and Proud" and "Land of Immortals" were all included in ''Legendary Tales'', with varying changes. "Invernal Fury" and "Alive and Proud" were renamed "Rage of the Winter" and "Lord of the Thunder" respectively; "Land of Immortals" had its intro split off into a different track, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rodenberg
Michael Rodenberg, nicknamed Miro (born 9 April 1970), is a German keyboard player and record producer known for working with power metal bands such as Angra, Shaaman, Luca Turilli, Rhapsody of Fire, Kamelot, and Heavens Gate. He mainly works in conjunction with his some-time bandmate Sascha Paeth. In addition to his production work, Miro has made guest appearances for many of the bands he works with as a keyboard player, and also provides orchestral arrangements. He served a particularly long period as a guest of Kamelot, providing all keyboards on their studio albums from 1999 until 2005, when they hired tour musician Oliver Palotai as a full-time member. In 2004, he participated in '' Aina'', a metal opera featuring many guest heavy metal musicians. In 2007, Miro and Sacha Paeth helped to relaunch Tobias Sammet's metal opera Avantasia, with the albums of '' The Wicked Trilogy'' (on which Miro played most of the keyboard parts and orchestrations), and also leading it to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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