Rhapsody In Lee

[filkertom]

From BroncoFan, in comments at Ain't It Cool News, we learn that Rhapsody, an Italian metal band, has a new album, an epic fantasy tale called Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret, featuring Christopher Lee narrating and singing. Full orchestra, chorus, and screaming headbanger stuff. Their site is here; they have some MP3s on their Discography pages, a video of the song "Unholy Warcry" on the Discography->Albums page, and a streaming version of that song in Real Audio.

The only problem I have so far is that their drummer is really fond of sixteenth notes.

Comments

[eibii.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Chirstopher Lee has classical operatic training. :D

Yeah, Sixteenth note drummers happen a lot ofn power metal artist bands - Blind Guardian, for instance. (Yes, a 16-minute song about the battle for Troy gets a mostly 16th-not beat somewhat throughout) It's still fun, though.

If I ever met Christopher Lee, I would give him a hug. With due permission, of course. 'Case he's just *nifty*.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I understand that about the bands -- I'd just like a little variation, is all. Not every song has to be at the same tempo with the same "padabada PAdabada padabada PAdabada". Structurally, I think their stuff seems quite solid and interesting, and I'm not a metal kinda guy.

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a comedy/musical with Lee in it? Captain Amazing or sumpthin'...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

The Return of Captain Invincible (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086189/), starring Lee and Alan Arkin. Lyrics by Richard O'Brien. I am delighted to have a copy on VHS, but I'm getting the DVD.