Christopher Lee - To Release Metal Album
Sir Christopher Lee is to become Christopher Cheese once more.
The project is called Charlemagne. It is the story of King Charlemagne, First Holy Roman Emperor, acted and sung by the legendary actor Christopher Lee. Sir Christopher is the highest grossing actor of all time, with cinematic milestones such as "Lord Of The Rings", "Star Wars", "The Man with the Golden Gun" and "Dracula", amongst over 280 movies - and still counting!
The Carandinis, Lee's maternal ancestors, were given the right to bear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Through his Carandini ancestors, Christopher Lee has a direct link to Charlemagne, and has decided for the first time in his life to pay homage to his distinguished ancestor, who is credited as "The Father of Europe".
Charlemagne is a concept album with original words and symphonic metal music.
Composer Marco Sabiu, best known for his collaborations with Kylie Minogue, Take That, Pavarotti, Morricone, has created a truly epic canvas by introducing modern metal symphonies, in a style which resembles a movie score. Marie-Claire Calvet, a graduate from Bristol University, transports the listener into "The Dark Ages", with a very powerful storyline and mesmerising lyrics. A full orchestra, heavy metal musicians, choir and special guest vocalists bring the legend of Charlemagne to life.
Sir Christopher Lee has also collaborated with Rhapsody Of Fire in the past, and lists his influences as: Manowar, Rhapsody Of Fire, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Hammerstein, Movie Scores and Symphonic Metal.
The album will be released on the 15th of March 2010.
The project is called Charlemagne. It is the story of King Charlemagne, First Holy Roman Emperor, acted and sung by the legendary actor Christopher Lee. Sir Christopher is the highest grossing actor of all time, with cinematic milestones such as "Lord Of The Rings", "Star Wars", "The Man with the Golden Gun" and "Dracula", amongst over 280 movies - and still counting!
The Carandinis, Lee's maternal ancestors, were given the right to bear the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Through his Carandini ancestors, Christopher Lee has a direct link to Charlemagne, and has decided for the first time in his life to pay homage to his distinguished ancestor, who is credited as "The Father of Europe".
Charlemagne is a concept album with original words and symphonic metal music.
Composer Marco Sabiu, best known for his collaborations with Kylie Minogue, Take That, Pavarotti, Morricone, has created a truly epic canvas by introducing modern metal symphonies, in a style which resembles a movie score. Marie-Claire Calvet, a graduate from Bristol University, transports the listener into "The Dark Ages", with a very powerful storyline and mesmerising lyrics. A full orchestra, heavy metal musicians, choir and special guest vocalists bring the legend of Charlemagne to life.
Sir Christopher Lee has also collaborated with Rhapsody Of Fire in the past, and lists his influences as: Manowar, Rhapsody Of Fire, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Hammerstein, Movie Scores and Symphonic Metal.
The album will be released on the 15th of March 2010.
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13254  |
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| Bas Retired Staff Elite Posts: 5591  |
Lol. Could be interesting, will definitely give it a listen, although I'm not expecting something all too awesome. EDIT: Just listened to the myspace samples, boring as hell
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| Lord_Regnier Posts: 1469  |
I heard samples and it's not metal by any stretch of the imagination.
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| Dark Seraphim Posts: 70  |
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695  |
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| AyΣm Posts: 287  |
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| iaberis Advice Troll Posts: 1698  |
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| Daggon Underpaid M.D. Posts: 1689  |
He has an awesome voice, yes but, a whole metal album for him? He should just stay doing some vocals for Rhapsody.  EDIT: Ok ok, the samples are boring as hell.
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8669  |
Awesome news! his narration for Rhapsody and duet with Fabio Lione was so great...i simply need to hear that  edit: the samples are...promising!
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695 |
Hahahahaha! Listened to the samples, that was some serious bad shit.
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| Constantine Posts: 197  |
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| Ilham Giant robot Posts: 5161  |
Oh, well, listened to the samples on myspace, and it fucking sucks. That's too bad, with a figure like him, I'd have imagined something similar to Triarii, Arditi, Toroidh... Anything that actually related to the history of Europe, Roman and German empires... Or even something like Elend, more classical... Ah well...
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| Maxx666 Meshuggahian Posts: 376  |
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| Xim Rocker of Worlds Posts: 273  |
Sounds okay from the samples actually. It's total "flower metal", but hey I'll give it a listen once it comes out.
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| tulkas el parcero Posts: 4742  |
Now that is simply amazing and something I hope to get as soon it comes out! Gotta admire this man!
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| VPeter Posts: 1450  |
Sounds quite good, he really is a better singer than most power metal vocalists haha.
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| Hamird Lieutenant Posts: 2564  |
He's about to be 90 years old.. It's a bit late to start a band isn't it?!
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| White Winter Sun Laboratory's Rat Elite Posts: 2198  |
Could be interesting... but after a quick listening of the samples available through MySpace... 
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| Galar Wicked Mung Posts: 598  |
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| DoomGuard Posts: 368  |
"I shed the blood of the Saxon men!" haha I'd much rather see this in like, a massively epic play with guitars and symphonies and actors, that'd be way much more badass that a CD, this is too epic for a CD, cuz its not as exciting just sitting there listening to it, i'd put visuals to this shit as for people who say its not metal...there are alot of "metal" albums that get dubbed metal just because there's some acoustic guitars here n there...this at least has some distorted guitars to give it more of a Hard Rock-Symphonic feel, kinda like the Transiberian Orchestra
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
From the samples i don't really see how this could be considered a metal album. sounds pretty decent, though i believe the symphonies are too loud in the detriment of the vocals. i give him credit for innovating and trying new stuff even being 90 years old.
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| Lord_Regnier Posts: 1469 |
Written by DoomGuard on 01.01.2010 at 22:08 Believe what you want, I don't care. This stuff is not metal by any stretch. Period. Symphonic, yes. But not metal.
---- "Why would we fear death, when life is so much more frightening?"
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| Lord_Regnier Posts: 1469 |
Written by VPeter on 01.01.2010 at 21:15 Yeah, at least it doesn't sound gay like 9 out of 10 Euroflowermetal vocalists.
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| floydiac Posts: 29  |
The samples are bad...But I shall hold out hope. The "finale" one looked like there was some metal in there. Time will tell.
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| -DC-002- Mastercommander Posts: 1703  |
Hopefully it will be good or it will tarnish symphonic metal everywhere... Oh wait.
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
Holy shit. This made me laugh pretty hard.
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695 |
I'll be honest, I think his singing is crap. If I ever found the album on sale I'd probably buy it, just to have something to laugh my ass off to.
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| Richard Elite Posts: 4862  |
Bizarre! Christopher Lee is a living legend IMO, and a great actor - I've seen many of his films over the years, have read his autobiography, and he is a true English gentleman of exceptional talent and presence. Whether this project turns out to be any good or not is another matter - but if nothing else, good on him for perhaps being one of the eldest people to front a Metal album (by the gods, he's even older than Ronnie James Dio!  )
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