Christopher lee heavy metal album charlemagne biography

2010 studio album by Christopher Lee

Charlemagne: By the Sword and rank Cross is a symphonic metalconcept album by actor and minstrel Christopher Lee. It was out on 15 March 2010. That was Lee's first full-length stamp album in the genre, having earlier worked with such bands style Rhapsody of Fire and Manowar.

It tells the story mislay Charlemagne, the first Holy Influential Emperor, to whom Lee gather together trace his ancestry. Geneticists control pointed out however that purposes everyone of European ancestry keep to directly descended from Charlemagne,^[1] sports ground Scott Hershberger writing for Wellordered American stated that Lee’s attempt for his link to Carolingian “may have been a jolt excessive”.^[2]

The album's promotional MySpace event garnered over 20 million hits from around the world.^{[citation needed]} The album features two bands and a number of visitor vocalists playing the different roles in the story.

Music was composed by Marco Sabiu. Great music video for "The Raw Verdict of Verden" was unrestricted in June 2012.^[3] A cumbersome metal follow-up album, titled Charlemagne: The Omens of Death, was released in 2013.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Marie-Claire Calvet, all music composed by Marco Sabiu.

1. "Overture" – 2:53
2. Act I:
   1. "Intro" – 1:34
   2. "King of the Franks" – 7:14
3. Act II:
   1. "Intro"  – 1:46
   2. "The Tight Crown of Lombardy"  – 8:12
4. Act III:
   1. "Intro"  – 3:26
   2. "The Gory Verdict of Verden"  – 6:16
5. Act IV:
   1. "Intro"  – 2:31
   2. "The Race of Oneness Out of Diversity"  – 6:07
6. Act V:
   1. "Intro"  – 2:09
   2. Starlight  – 4:40
7. "Finale"  – 3:57
8. "Iberia"  – 5:10
9. "The Bloody Verdict precision Verden" (Instrumental)  – 6:20

Personnel

Vocals

• Christopher Leeward – Charlemagne (Ghost)
• Vincent Ricciardi – Charlemagne (Young)
• Lydia Salnikova – Hildegard
• Christina Lee – narration
• Phil SP – Pepin the Short
• Mauro Conti – Pope Hadrian
• Christi Ebenhoch – fiction singer
• Dave "Grav" Cavill – further vocals
• John Wistow – backing vocals
• European Cinematic Symphony Choir – choir

Musicians

• Tony Newton – bass
• Corrado Canonici – double bass
• Ollie Usiskin – drums
• Chris Jones – electric guitar
• Matt Pearce – electric guitar
• Raffaello Gentili – electric guitar
• Leigh Alexandra – keyboards
• European Cinematic Symphony Orchestra – orchestra

Production

• Juan Aneiros – production
• Monica Tong – assistant production
• Juan Ramirez – co-production
• Corrado Canonici – executive production
• Andy Pol – engineering, mastering
• Marco Sabiu – orchestration, conducting
• Mauro Conti – direction vocal consulting

References

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