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Ottawa
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Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, the two form the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area and the National Capital Region. The 2016 census reported a population of 934,243, making it the fourth-largest city in Canada, the City of Ottawa reported that the city had an estimated population of 960,754 as of December 2015. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, the city name Ottawa was chosen in reference to the Ottawa River nearby, the name of which is derived from the Algonquin Odawa, meaning to trade. The city is the most educated in Canada, and is home to a number of post-secondary, research, and cultural institutions, including the National Arts Centre, Ottawa also has the highest standard of living in the nation and low unemployment. It ranked second out of 150 worldwide in the Numbeo quality of life index 2014–2015, with the draining of the Champlain Sea around ten thousand years ago the Ottawa Valley became habitable. The area was used for wild harvesting, hunting, fishing, trade, travel. The Ottawa river valley has archaeological sites with arrow heads, pottery, the area has three major rivers that meet, making it an important trade and travel area for thousands of years. The Algonquins called the Ottawa River Kichi Sibi or Kichissippi meaning Great River or Grand River, Étienne Brûlé, the first European to travel up the Ottawa River, passed by Ottawa in 1610 on his way to the Great Lakes. Three years later, Samuel de Champlain wrote about the waterfalls of the area and about his encounters with the Algonquins, the early explorers and traders were later followed by many missionaries. The first maps of the area used the word Ottawa to name the river, philemon Wright, a New Englander, created the first settlement in the area on 7 March 1800 on the north side of the river, across from Ottawa in Hull. He, with five other families and twenty-five labourers, set about to create a community called Wrightsville. Wright pioneered the Ottawa Valley timber trade by transporting timber by river from the Ottawa Valley to Quebec City, the following year, the town would soon be named after British military engineer Colonel John By who was responsible for the entire Rideau Waterway construction project. Colonel By set up military barracks on the site of todays Parliament Hill and he also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named Upper Town west of the canal and Lower Town east of the canal. Similar to its Upper Canada and Lower Canada namesakes, historically Upper Town was predominantly English speaking and Protestant whereas Lower Town was predominantly French, Irish, bytowns population grew to 1,000 as the Rideau Canal was being completed in 1832. In 1855 Bytown was renamed Ottawa and incorporated as a city, William Pittman Lett was installed as the first city clerk guiding it through 36 years of development. On New Years Eve 1857, Queen Victoria, as a symbolic, in reality, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald had assigned this selection process to the Executive Branch of the Government, as previous attempts to arrive at a consensus had ended in deadlock
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Ontario
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Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canadas most populous province by a margin, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and it is home to the nations capital city, Ottawa, and the nations most populous city, Toronto. There is only about 1 km of land made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border. Ontario is sometimes divided into two regions, Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The great majority of Ontarios population and arable land is located in the south, in contrast, the larger, northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and is heavily forested. The province is named after Lake Ontario, a thought to be derived from Ontarí, io, a Huron word meaning great lake, or possibly skanadario. Ontario has about 250,000 freshwater lakes, the province consists of three main geographical regions, The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario. Although this area mostly does not support agriculture, it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes, Northern Ontario is subdivided into two sub-regions, Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario. The virtually unpopulated Hudson Bay Lowlands in the north and northeast, mainly swampy. Southern Ontario which is further sub-divided into four regions, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Golden Horseshoe, the highest point is Ishpatina Ridge at 693 metres above sea level located in Temagami, Northeastern Ontario. In the south, elevations of over 500 m are surpassed near Collingwood, above the Blue Mountains in the Dundalk Highlands, the Carolinian forest zone covers most of the southwestern region of the province. A well-known geographic feature is Niagara Falls, part of the Niagara Escarpment, the Saint Lawrence Seaway allows navigation to and from the Atlantic Ocean as far inland as Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. Northern Ontario occupies roughly 87 percent of the area of the province. Point Pelee is a peninsula of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario that is the southernmost extent of Canadas mainland, Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N – slightly farther south than the border of California. The climate of Ontario varies by season and location, the effects of these major air masses on temperature and precipitation depend mainly on latitude, proximity to major bodies of water and to a small extent, terrain relief. In general, most of Ontarios climate is classified as humid continental, Ontario has three main climatic regions
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Thrash metal
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Thrash metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its fast tempo and overall aggression. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, the lyrics often deal with social issues and reproach for The Establishment, using direct and denunciatory language, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the fast drum beats and attitude of hardcore with the double bass drumming, heavy and complex guitar style of the new wave of British heavy metal. It emerged partially as a reaction to the conventional and widely acceptable glam metal. Thrash metal was an inspiration for subsequent extreme genres such as death metal, Four American bands—Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, and Slayer—are credited with pioneering and popularizing the genre. The Clash of the Titans tour, which featured Megadeth, Slayer, thrash metal has seen a resurgence in recent times, with many of the older bands returning to their roots with their new releases. A new generation of metal bands emerged in the early 2000s. Thrash metal generally features fast tempos, low-register, complex riffs, high-register guitar solos. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the drum beats of hardcore punk with the style of the new wave of British heavy metal. It emerged partially as a reaction to the conventional and widely acceptable glam metal. The rhythm guitar parts are played with distortion and often palm muted to create a tighter. Vocally, thrash metal can employ anything from singing to shouted vocals. The guitar riffs often use chromatic scales and emphasize the tritone and diminished intervals, for example, the intro riff of Metallicas Master of Puppets is a chromatic descent, followed by a chromatic ascent based on the tritone. Speed, pacing and time-changes also define thrash metal, thrash tends to have an accelerating feel which may be due in large part to its aggressive drumming style. For example, drummers often use two drums, or a double-bass pedal, in order to create a relentless, driving beat. Cymbal stops/chokes are often used to transition from one riff to another or to precede an acceleration in tempo, to keep up with the other instruments, many bassists use a plectrum. However, some prominent thrash metal bassists have used their fingers, such as Frank Bello, Greg Christian, Steve DiGiorgio, Robert Trujillo, several bassists use a distorted bass tone, an approach popularized by Burton and Motörheads Lemmy. Lyrical themes in thrash metal include warfare, corruption, injustice, murder, suicide, isolation, alienation, addiction, in addition, politics, particularly pessimism and dissatisfaction towards politics, are common themes among thrash metal bands
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Progressive metal
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Whilst the genre emerged towards the late-1980s, it was not until the 1990s that progressive metal achieved commercial success. On the other side of the spectrum, some rock bands such as King Crimson, Uriah Heep. Rush songs such as Bastille Day, Anthem, By-Tor And The Snow Dog,2112, The Fountain of Lamneth, another early practitioner of heavy metal were Lucifers Friend. Night Sun was also a band who mixed heavy metal with progressive rock tones. However, progressive metal did not develop into a genre of its own until the mid-1980s, the result can be described as music that combined a progressive rock mentality with heavy metal sounds. Among the early flagship bands for progressive metal, each had a different vibe. Fates Warning were one of the most aggressive and heavy sounding and their 1989 album Perfect Symmetry broke away from their NWOBHM influenced sound and became the mold for early progressive metal that Dream Theater would expand on. Crimson Glorys music, featuring tight dual-lead harmonies and soaring vocals would be displayed prominently on their self titled debut, as well as in the follow-up and it also contained the song Lonely, which was their first hit single and music video. According to AllMusic, progressive metal at the time was fairly underground, though progressive metal was, and has remained, primarily an album-oriented genre, this mainstream exposure increased the genres profile, and opened doors for other bands. Ayreon stayed with the prog metal themes, but mixed them with many other influences, such as rock opera, folk music. Pain of Salvation experimented with progressive rock and progressive metal, made extensive use of polyrhythms, and abruptly switched between calm and heavy passages. Seventh Wonder stayed within the metal mold, but had a larger focus on melody than most other progressive metal bands. Symphony X married progressive elements to power metal and classical music, tool and Karnivool created a more modern style by combining alternative metal elements and odd time signatures. Porcupine Tree began as a rock band, but then developed a progressive metal sound with 2002s In Absentia. Mastodon also combined progressive metal with sludge elements, many bands also started to experiment with more extreme subgenres of metal music, as have Meshuggah, whose distinctive sound has spawned the djent movement within progressive metal. In Japan, Sigh incorporated jazz and classical influences in black metal, while Dir En Grey, formerly a visual kei band, in Israel, Orphaned Land mixed progressive metal with local folk music, with guitarist Yossi Sassi playing a bouzouki as well as a guitar. Progressive metal can be broken down into many sub-genres corresponding to other styles of music that have influenced progressive metal groups. For example, two bands that are identified as progressive metal, Kings X and Opeth, are at opposite ends of the sonic spectrum to one another
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Power metal
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Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a more uplifting sound, in contrast with the heaviness, Power metal bands usually have anthem-like songs with fantasy-based subject matter and strong choruses, thus creating a theatrical, dramatic and emotionally powerful sound. Anthropologist Sam Dunn traced the origins of power back to the late 1970s. The fantasy-oriented lyrics he wrote for Rainbow, concentrated around medieval, renaissance, folk and it is mentioned that songs Stargazer and Kill the King, from the 1976 album Rising and 1978s Long Live Rock n Roll respectively, might be among the earliest examples of power metal. In his 2011 documentary series Metal Evolution, Dunn further explained how Rob Halford of Judas Priest created a blueprint for power metal vocal delivery and his almost constant high-pitched singing became one of the main characteristics of power metal. The twin-guitar sound promoted by duo of K. K. Downing, another pioneer in the power metal genre is Jon Mikl Thor, who was a strong inspiration to the American band Manowar. Another British band, Iron Maiden, brought epic and melodic sensibility to metal, creating anthemic, singalong music, the emergence of the early German power metal scene in particular was made possible by Scorpions and Accept. Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen made a significant impact on many future power metal guitarists, with his accurate and his bandmate Jens Johansson modernized the keyboard sound of Deep Purples Jon Lord, which was further incorporated into the genre. Manowars mythological sword and sorcery lyrics influenced a number of metal bands. In 1987 Helloween released their album, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt.1. Its volatile combination of power and melody would inspire a generation of metal bands. Power metal is associated with fast tempo and melodic harmonies. Power metal is focused on the vocalist, with clean vocals being much more prevalent than the growling vocals often associated with extreme metal. Inspired by Ronnie James Dio, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford, Geoff Tate and other heavy metal vocalists, power metal vocals are often in a register. There are many exceptions who sing in either baritone or bass range, many power metal vocalists, most notably Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian, record multi-layered vocals reminiscent of Queen creating a choral effect. Power metals lyrical themes focus on fantasy and mythology, camaraderie and hope, personal struggles and emotions, war and death. For example, Finnish band Sonata Arctica have been known for focusing their lyrics of their songs on fantasy but also have many songs based on reality, love and relationships. Some bands have even written their own stories, like Rhapsody of Fires Emerald Sword Saga and The Dark Secret Saga
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King Diamond (band)
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King Diamond is a Danish heavy metal band formed in 1985 by vocalist King Diamond, guitarists Andy LaRocque and Michael Denner, bassist Timi Hansen and drummer Mikkey Dee. Diamond, Denner and Hansen had recently departed the group Mercyful Fate, in 1986, King Diamond released their debut album Fatal Portrait. Since then the band have released a total of twelve studio albums, since the bands inception, there have been over fifteen musicians in and out of King Diamond, with the only two mainstays being vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Andy LaRocque. In 1987 the band released their second studio release Abigail, throughout the 1980s, King Diamond released a total of four studio albums. In the early 1990s, the band was put on hold when King Diamond reunited with his former outfit Mercyful Fate, after reforming King Diamond in 1994, Diamond would balance recording and touring with both Mercyful Fate and his eponymous band throughout the 90s. The band was formed in 1985 by vocalist King Diamond, guitarist Michael Denner, the three had recently departed from the group Mercyful Fate, which fell apart due to musical differences between King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann. According to Diamond, when he, Denner and Hansen decided to form a new band, they chose the name King Diamond to get better deals, to round-out the line-up of the King Diamond band, the group chose drummer Mikkey Dee and guitarist Andy LaRocque. In July,1985, the began recording their debut album at Sound Track Studio in Copenhagen. On December 25, they released their debut single No Presents for Christmas, Fatal Portrait, the bands first full-length studio album, was released on February 17,1986, through Roadrunner Records. Produced by Rune Höyer and vocalist King Diamond, the album charted at number 33 on the Swedish album chart, and spawned the single Halloween, in December 1986, King Diamond began recording their second studio album, once again at Sound Track Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to the release, the group released the single The Family Ghost on July 1,1987. On October 21,1987, King Diamond released the album Abigail, the album went on to chart at number 39 in Sweden, number 68 in the Netherlands, and at number 123 on the Billboard 200. Following Abigails release, guitarist Michael Denner left the band due to touring strains and he was subsequently replaced by Mike Moon for the albums supporting tour, during which the band recorded the live album In Concert 1987, Abigail. Following the completion of the Abigail tour, guitarist Mike Moon and bassist Timi Hansen were replaced by Pete Blakk, on September 13,1988, King Diamond released the album Them, which was recorded at M. M. C. Another music video was shot, this time for the single Welcome Home. On November 1, the group released The Dark Sides EP, following the completion of the supporting tour for Them, Mikkey Dee left King Diamond. However, he was rehired to play drums on the bands follow-up album, after which he was replaced by Snowy Shaw. On August 21,1989, King Diamond released the album Conspiracy, which charted at number 41 on the Swedish album chart, number 64 on the Dutch album chart, a continuation of the storyline from Them, Conspiracy was once again recorded at M. M. C
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Megadeth
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Megadeth is an American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California. Guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson formed the band in 1983 shortly after Mustaines dismissal from Metallica. A pioneer of the American thrash metal scene, the band is credited as one of the big four with Anthrax, Metallica and Slayer, responsible for thrash metals development. Megadeth plays in a style, featuring fast rhythm sections. Themes of death, war, politics and religion are prominent in the song lyrics, in 1985, the band released its debut album on the independent label Combat Records. The albums moderate commercial success caught the attention of bigger labels and their first major-label album, Peace Sells. But Whos Buying. was released in 1986 and influenced the underground metal scene, despite its prominence in thrash metal, frequent disputes between its members and substance abuse issues brought Megadeth negative publicity during this period. After the lineup stabilized, the released a number of platinum-selling albums, including Rust in Peace. These albums, along with touring worldwide, helped bring recognition to Megadeth. The band temporarily disbanded in 2002 when Mustaine suffered an arm injury and re-established in 2004 without bassist Ellefson, Ellefson settled with Mustaine out of court and rejoined the group in 2010. Megadeth has hosted its own festival, Gigantour, several times since mid-2005. As of 2014, Megadeth had sold 50 million records worldwide, earned platinum certification in the United States for five of its fifteen studio albums, Megadeth won its first Grammy Award in 2017 for the song Dystopia in the Best Metal Performance category. The bands mascot, Vic Rattlehead, regularly appears on album artwork and, since 2010, the group has experienced controversy over its musical approach and lyrics, including canceled concerts and album bans. MTV has refused to play two of the videos that the network considered to condone suicide. As Metallicas lead guitarist since 1982, Mustaine had composed some of the early songs. Afterward, Mustaine vowed revenge by forming a band that was faster and heavier than Metallica. On the bus back to Los Angeles, Mustaine found a pamphlet by California senator Alan Cranston that read. The term Megadeath stuck with Mustaine and he wrote a song with the slightly changed to Megadeth
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Testament (band)
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Testament is an American thrash metal band from Berkeley, California. Formed in 1983 under the name Legacy, the bands current line-up comprises vocalist Chuck Billy, guitarists Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick, bassist Steve Di Giorgio and drummer Gene Hoglan. In the 34 years since its inception, Testament has had numerous lineup changes, Billy replaced former singer Steve Souza in 1986, prior to the recording of their first studio album, The Legacy, and has been a member of the band since. Billy and Peterson are the band members to appear on every album. To date, the band has released studio albums, four live albums, six compilation albums. Shortly after the release of The Ritual, Skolnick and drummer Louie Clemente left the band and were replaced by James Murphy and John Tempesta on guitar and they also gained critical recognition for embarking on the European Clash of the Titans tour with Slayer, Megadeth and Suicidal Tendencies. To this day, the continues to record and perform live. Testament was formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1983 by guitarist Eric Peterson and his cousin, vocalist Derrick Ramirez, also a guitarist, the band soon recruited bassist Greg Christian and drummer Mike Ronchette. Ramirez subsequently passed lead guitar duties to Alex Skolnick, who had studied under Bay Area guitarist Joe Satriani, Ramirez eventually departed and was replaced on vocals by Steve Souza before the band released one self-titled four-song demo in 1985. Ronchette left shortly after the recording and was replaced by Louie Clemente, Souza subsequently left the band to join Exodus, and suggested Chuck Billy to replace him on lead vocals. While recording their first album, the band was forced to change their name to Testament, Testaments first album, The Legacy, was released in April 1987 on Megaforce Records. Testament received instant fame within thrash circles and were compared with fellow Bay Area thrash pioneers Metallica. The band quickly managed to increase their exposure by heading out on successful American and European tours with Anthrax, on this tour, the Live at Eindhoven EP was recorded. Testament also opened for their labelmates Overkill, and Megadeth on their Peace Sells, Testaments second album, The New Order, was released in May 1988, and found the band continuing in a similar vein. The album was a success, peaking at number 136 on the Billboard 200. In support of The New Order, Testament opened for Megadeth on their So Far, Tour in Europe, and toured the United States with the likes of Death Angel, Vio-Lence and Raven. After touring in support of The New Order, the band headed back into the studio to record their studio album Practice What You Preach. Released in August 1989, the album minimized the occult and gothic themes found in the content of their first two albums, instead focusing on real-life issues such as politics and corruption
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Wayback Machine
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The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet, the service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a three dimensional index. Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been archiving cached pages of websites onto its large cluster of Linux nodes and it revisits sites every few weeks or months and archives a new version. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who enter the sites URL into a search box, the intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. The overall vision of the machines creators is to archive the entire Internet, the name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the WABAC machine, a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon. These crawlers also respect the robots exclusion standard for websites whose owners opt for them not to appear in search results or be cached, to overcome inconsistencies in partially cached websites, Archive-It. Information had been kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers, when the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley. Snapshots usually become more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked website updates are recorded, Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots. After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. As of 2009, the Wayback Machine contained approximately three petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of 100 terabytes each month, the growth rate reported in 2003 was 12 terabytes/month, the data is stored on PetaBox rack systems manufactured by Capricorn Technologies. In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, in 2011 a new, improved version of the Wayback Machine, with an updated interface and fresher index of archived content, was made available for public testing. The index driving the classic Wayback Machine only has a bit of material past 2008. In January 2013, the company announced a ground-breaking milestone of 240 billion URLs, in October 2013, the company announced the Save a Page feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries, as of December 2014, the Wayback Machine contained almost nine petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of about 20 terabytes each week. Between October 2013 and March 2015 the websites global Alexa rank changed from 162 to 208, in a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc. defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots. Netbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbulas website, in an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No.02 C3293,65 Fed. 673, a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, Telewizja Polska is the provider of TVP Polonia and EchoStar operates the Dish Network
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Heavy metal music
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Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are associated with aggression. The first heavy metal such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the evolution by discarding much of its blues influence, Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as metalheads or headbangers. During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with such as Mötley Crüe. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre and these include groove metal and nu metal, the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. Heavy metal is characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound. Metal subgenres variously emphasize, alter, or omit one or more of these attributes, the typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist. Keyboard instruments are used to enhance the fullness of the sound. Deep Purples Jon Lord played an overdriven Hammond organ, in 1970, John Paul Jones used a Moog synthesizer on Led Zeppelin III, by the 1990s, in. almost every subgenre of heavy metal synthesizers were used. The electric guitar and the power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a use of high volumes. Guitar solos are an element of the heavy metal code. That underscores the significance of the guitar to the genre, most heavy metal songs featur at least one guitar solo, which is a primary means through which the heavy metal performer expresses virtuosity. One exception is nu metal bands, which tend to omit guitar solos, with rhythm guitar parts, the heavy crunch sound in heavy metal. Palm muting the strings with the hand and using distortion. Palm muting creates a tighter, more sound and it emphasizes the low end
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Shawn Drover
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Shawn Drover is a Canadian musician, best known for his work with the American heavy metal band Megadeth. He began playing the drums at the age of 13, in 1993 he founded the Canadian power metal band, Eidolon, with his brother Glen. He uses Sabian cymbals and Yamaha drums, Pro-mark drum sticks, Toca Percussion, Evans Drumheads, after ten years in Megadeth, Drover announced his departure from the band on November 25,2014, the same day that guitarist Chris Broderick also left the band. The pair formed the metal supergroup Act of Defiance together in late 2014. Shawn also has been playing guitar since 1980, which he learned from watching his brother, Shawn wrote most of the music for all 6 Eidolon records as well as all of the lyrics for all Eidolon records except The Parallel Otherworld. He was playing guitar during Megadeths Blackmail The Universe Tour in Kawasaki, Shawn and his brother Glen Drover switched instruments playing Paranoid and the second half of Peace Sells. Glen sat at the drums, and Shawn played the guitar, Shawn co-wrote the Grammy Nominated song Head Crusher from 2009s Endgame, as well as Built for War from 2013s Super Collider. While on the Gigantour in 2005, Shawn became the third Megadeth guitarist on stage during Peace Sells while Mike Portnoy previously of Dream Theater played the drums, Shawn also did one solo of the song. The night after the statements were released that Shawns brother Glen had quit Megadeth, Shawn, Shawn then proceeded to show Dave a video of Chris playing both classical and electric guitar. Dave was immediately won over and soon managed to get in contact with Chris, two weeks later, Broderick was officially declared the new guitarist for Megadeth. Although the role of each hand is reversed and this is known as Open handed drumming. On November 25,2014 Drover announced his departure from Megadeth, following his departure from Megadeth, Drover teamed up with Chris Broderick, who left Megadeth the same day as Shawn, to form Act of Defiance with vocalist Henry Derek and bassist Matt Bachand. He currently resides in, has a wife, a daughter, a son, on May 5, the same date as his birthday,2010, his first grandson was born. Shawn is a fan of the NFL, and his favorite team is the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shawn is a golfer as well, and participates in several charitable golf events each year. Shawn Drover endorses Yamaha Drums, Sabian, Evans Drumheads, Toca percussion, Extreme Isolation headphones, the MegaKit used on tours from 2004 through 2010 was manufactured by Ferguson Fabrication out of Tempe, Arizona. The structure was revised and redesigned making the lighter and easier to assemble. Shawn formerly from October 2006 to February 2014 endorsed the DDRUM maple kit and electronic DDRUM triggers with Sabian cymbals. megadeth. com/ – Image
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King Diamond
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Kim Bendix Petersen, better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish heavy metal musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his vocal range. He is the lead vocalist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond, King Diamonds first heavy rock band was called Brainstorm, with Jeanette Blum vocal and bass, Michael Frohn guitar and Jes Jacobsen drums. King Diamond left Brainstorm and began singing with local Danish hard rock band Black Rose and it was during this time in Black Rose that King Diamond began experimenting with horror themed theatrics as well as shaping a malevolent quasi-Satanic stage persona. He left Black Rose and joined the punk-metal band Brats where he met Hank Shermann, soon after, the two of them were asked to help Michael Denner with his own project Danger Zone. This band included Timi Hansen and the musicians would join with King Diamond in 1980 to become Mercyful Fate. Following Mercyful Fates 1984 release of Dont Break the Oath and the subsequent tour, with him, he took two of his bandmates to pursue a solo career under his own name. Mercyful Fate reunited in 1992 and recorded five studio albums. In 2000, King decided to put Mercyful Fate on hold, though Mercyful Fate continues to remain dormant, the band is still under contract with Metal Blade Records. Also in 1999, King Diamond and Hank Shermann performed the song Evil live with Metallica and this performance also featured King Diamond without his famous makeup. In recent interviews, King Diamond has stated that Mercyful Fate will record and tour again when the timing is right, in 2004, King Diamond contributed vocals to Sweet Dreams, which was the final track on the album of Dave Grohls heavy metal side project Probot. King Diamond also guested on the Cradle of Filth song Devil Woman in late 2005, in April 2006, King reunited with Mikkey Dee at a sold-out gig at Kåren in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2001 King referred to Dee as one of the best drummers of all time, King Diamond released his album Give Me Your Soul. Following the release the band received a Grammy nomination in the Best Metal Performance category for the track Never Ending Hill. He was forced to cancel a United States tour due to a disk, causing severe back pain. He attributes the problem to the long hours spent working on the album. King made an appearance at Ozzfest on 9 August 2008 at Frisco, TX alongside Metallica, earlier in the day, he also performed a cover of the Pantera song A New Level with Vinnie Paul, Scott Ian, Max Cavalera, and Nick Bowcott. In 2009, King Diamond was revealed to be a character for the rhythm game Guitar Hero, Metallica
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House of God (album)
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House of God is the ninth studio album by the heavy metal band King Diamond, released in 2000. The album was remastered by Andy LaRocque and was re-released in 2009, the albums storyline is loosely based on the legend of Rennes-le-Château. A man gets lost in the hills and is surrounded by wolves, suddenly an old grey wolf with shiny eyes appears, makes all other wolves stay back and leads the man to a small church at the bottom of a hill. The man enters the House of God, in which everything starts to change, the wolf turns into a beautiful woman. He starts discussing with Angel and she tells him her dramatic fate, Angel was chosen by supernatural forces to guard the church and she has one years time to find a replacement for herself. If shes not successful she has to die, if she is successful she can leave the frightening place, but will lose her memory. The man sadly lets her go and nearly loses his mind out of heartache, in his desperation he starts to destroy the church and explores a hidden path which leads to underground catacombs. Spiders and rats reign there and everything is full of human bones, the man hears a scream from the inside of a mummy. He runs back into the church and a mysterious being tells him that there exists no God or devil, the mans shocked and starts to doubt the sense of life. He desperately asks himself, Why am I here, where does life begin or end. Is the universe just a grain of sand on a huge beach, the man loses his faith in life, he cant accept what he has seen and hangs himself in desperation and pain. The album begins with a monologue, Upon the Cross he did not die, they tortured him, smuggled across the open sea, to Southern France, tranquility. There he married Magdalene, and founded another dynasty, a church was built upon a hill, to serve all of the gods at will. King Diamond - Vocals Andy LaRocque - Guitars Glen Drover - Guitars David Harbour - Bass guitar John Luke Hébert - Drums
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United Abominations
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United Abominations is the eleventh studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth. Greg Prato of AllMusic stated Megadeth sound reborn on United Abominations, the lyrics of the album deal with politics and the state the world is in, with Ed Thompson of IGN stating the album is the bands most politically charged. The album was named the number one album of 2007 by Guitar World. Prior to the release of United Abominations, Megadeth signed a contract with Roadrunner Records. The band had troubles with music rights involving two former labels that carried Megadeth, Capitol and Sanctuary Records and this is the first Megadeth album since the 2004 album The System Has Failed, which was released through Sanctuary. While on tour to support The System Has Failed, Megadeth frontman, guitarist, at a sold-out concert in Buenos Aires, Mustaine stated the band would stay together. The show in Buenos Aires, at which information was announced, was recorded and released on CD and DVD as That One Night. Megadeth had a new lineup, aside from Mustaine, comprising Glen Drover, James LoMenzo. Mustaine chose these people for full-time members rather than session musicians and he stated that he liked the Drovers sibling chemistry and that LoMenzo was a legend. Mustaine stated he did not go into making this record with any pre-conceived notions and he said some of the lyrics on United Abominations were written about his frustration with his past record labels, stating a lot of that translated into the intensity on the record. Mustaine wrote the songs for the album in an attempt to stir something in the minds of the listener, the lyrics of the album were mostly about choices the American government were making at the time, which Mustaine found to be foolish. Mustaine stated recording the new songs was super fun, despite having troubles with some of the complex music, all of the lyrics and music, with the exception of one song, were written by Mustaine. A Call to Arms was co-written by Mustaine and guitarist Glen Drover, when bassist James LoMenzo was asked about the lyrics of the album, he said to talk to Dave about that. Although most of the band had no writing credits on the album, United Abominations was recorded in 2006 at SARM Hook End Studios, London, England, the Steakhouse, Studio City, California, Big Fish Encinitas, California and Backstage Productions. Additional overdubs were recorded at S. I. R, rehearsal studio, Hollywood, California and Mustaine Music, Fallbrook, California. Most of the record was tracked in England because Mustaine admired the fact that his band, Led Zeppelin. Mustaine produced the album, with production handled by Jeff Balding. À Tout le Monde, is a remake of A Tout le Monde which originally appeared on the 1994 album Youthanasia, the song is a more uptempo version of the original song, and features Lacuna Coil vocalist Cristina Scabbia singing backing vocals
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Brisbane
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Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbanes metropolitan area has a population of 2.35 million, the Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite, one of the oldest cities in Australia, Brisbane was founded upon the ancient homelands of the indigenous Turrbal and Jagera peoples. A penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe,28 kilometres north of the business district. The city was marred by the Australian frontier wars between 1843 and 1855, and development was set back by the Great Fire of Brisbane. Brisbane was chosen as the capital when Queensland was proclaimed a colony from New South Wales in 1859. During World War II, Brisbane played a role in the Allied campaign. Today, Brisbane is well known for its distinct Queenslander architecture which forms much of the built heritage. It also receives attention for its damaging flood events, most notably in 1974 and 2011. Several large cultural, international and sporting events have held at Brisbane, including the 1982 Commonwealth Games, World Expo 88, the final Goodwill Games in 2001. Prior to white settlement, the Brisbane area was inhabited by the Turrbal and they knew the area that is now the central business district as Mian-jin, meaning place shaped as a spike. The Moreton Bay area was explored by Matthew Flinders. On 17 July 1799, Flinders landed at what is now known as Woody Point, in 1823 Governor of New South Wales Sir Thomas Brisbane instructed that a new northern penal settlement be developed, and an exploration party led by John Oxley further explored Moreton Bay. Oxley discovered, named, and explored the Brisbane River as far as Goodna,20 kilometres upstream from the Brisbane central business district, Oxley recommended Red Cliff Point for the new colony, reporting that ships could land at any tide and easily get close to the shore. The party settled in Redcliffe on 13 September 1824, under the command of Lieutenant Henry Miller with 14 soldiers and 29 convicts. However, this settlement was abandoned after a year and the colony was moved to a site on the Brisbane River now known as North Quay,28 km south, chief Justice Forbes gave the new settlement the name of Edenglassie before it was named Brisbane. Non-convict European settlement of the Brisbane region commenced in 1838, German missionaries settled at Zions Hill, Nundah as early as 1837, five years before Brisbane was officially declared a free settlement. The band consisted of ministers Christopher Eipper and Carl Wilhelm Schmidt and lay missionaries Haussmann, Johann Gottried Wagner, Niquet, Hartenstein, Zillman, Franz, Rode, Doege and they were allocated 260 hectares and set about establishing the mission, which became known as the German Station
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Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the worlds sixth-largest country by total area, the neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australias capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney, for about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored, on 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia has since maintained a liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard, Australia has the worlds 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income. With the second-highest human development index globally, the country highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom. The name Australia is derived from the Latin Terra Australis a name used for putative lands in the southern hemisphere since ancient times, the Dutch adjectival form Australische was used in a Dutch book in Batavia in 1638, to refer to the newly discovered lands to the south. On 12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted, in 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. The first official published use of the term Australia came with the 1830 publication of The Australia Directory and these first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturists, the northern coasts and waters of Australia were visited sporadically by fishermen from Maritime Southeast Asia. The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent New Holland during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement. William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688, in 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration, a British settlement was established in Van Diemens Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the part of Western Australia in 1828. Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales, South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, the Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia
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Judas Priest
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Judas Priest are a British heavy metal band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1969. The band has sold close to 50 million albums to date, MTV ranked them the second greatest metal band of all time. In 1989, they were named as defendants in a lawsuit alleging that subliminal messages on the song Better By You. The bands membership has seen much turnover, including a revolving cast of drummers in the 1970s, the current line-up consists of Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The bands best-selling album is 1982s Screaming for Vengeance with their most commercially successful line-up, featuring Halford, Tipton, Hill, guitarist K. K. Downing, and drummer Dave Holland. Their influence, while mainly Halfords operatic vocal style and the guitar sound of Downing. Their image of leather, spikes, and other articles of clothing were widely influential during the glam metal era of the 1980s. The Guardian referred to British Steel as the record that defines heavy metal, an earlier band with a different line-up had been formed in the West Midlands area in 1969 by Al Atkins, Bruno Stapenhill, John Partridge, and John Perry. Perry was killed in a car accident, according to Al Atkins. Stapenhill came up with the name Judas Priest from Bob Dylans song The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, the band played their first gig on 25 November 1969 at The George Hotel in Walsall and then toured Scotland in December 1969 and January 1970. The group disbanded in April 1970 after their last gig on 20 April at The Youth Centre in Cannock, the line-up that took over the name of Judas Priest included lead guitarist Kenny K. K. Downing, bassist Ian Skull Hill and drummer John Ellis. The band was founded in October 1970 in Birmingham and they agreed to join with Atkins, who suggested using his old bands name, and rehearsed at Atkins mother-in-laws house in Stone Cross. The reformed group played their first gig on 16 March 1971 at St Johns Hall, with Downing as acting leader, the band moved away from their original blues influences to play hard rock. The quartet played around Birmingham and the areas with various drummers until 1974, sometimes opening for bands such as Budgie, Thin Lizzy. Eventually, financial difficulties and problems with their management, Tony Iommis company, IMA, led to the departure of Allan Atkins, at the time, Ian Hill was dating a Walsall woman who suggested her brother, Rob Halford, as the bands singer. Halford joined them, bringing drummer John Hinch from his previous band and this line-up toured the UK, often supporting Budgie, and even headlining some shows in Norway and Germany. Before the band entered the studio to record their first album, the two guitarists worked together to adapt the existing material and Tipton also received credits as a songwriter. In August 1974, the released their debut single Rocka Rolla
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Alex Skolnick
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Alexander Nathan Skolnick, is an American metal and jazz guitarist who is the lead guitarist of the Bay Area thrash metal band Testament, and heads the jazz band Alex Skolnick Trio. According to a Guitar World magazine readers poll he is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time, born and raised in Berkeley, California by a non-traditional Jewish family, Skolnick began playing the guitar at age nine. He was influenced by Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Randy Rhoads, Yngwie Malmsteen, Kiss and he was a student of renowned guitarist Joe Satriani and was one of many guitarists who studied under Satriani to achieve fame. His parents, Jerome Skolnick and Arlene, both PhD graduates from Yale University, were professors of sociology at New York University and have taught at UC Berkeley. Skolnick has a brother, Michael. Skolnick was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal band Testament from 1983 until his departure in 1993. After his first departure from Testament, Skolnick joined the band Savatage in 1994 for the recording of Handful of Rain, as well as its live album. In 1991 he recorded and toured with the Stu Hamm band and he also played guitar for Ozzy Osbourne in 1995. In 2004, Skolnick made a guest appearance on Lamb of Gods Ashes of the Wake album, during the mid to late 1990s, Skolnick fronted several projects in the Bay Area, including Skol-Patrol. He also recorded two albums with Attention Deficit, a 3-piece featuring Tim Alexander from Primus as well as Manring, in the late 90s, he collaborated with electric violinist Joe Deninzon in Stratospheerius, recording The Adventures of Stratospheerius album. He also appears on their Live Wires album, in 1998, Skolnick relocated to New York City and began devoting all of his energy to jazz, enrolling in The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music and graduating with a BFA in jazz performance. Since 2002, Alex has been touring and recording with the Alex Skolnick Trio, AST blends the conviction of rock with the elegance and sophistication of jazz. Since their debut, AST has been honored with 4 ½ stars by Downbeat, reviewed by Jazziz, in October 2007, the Alex Skolnick Trio were a support act to Rodrigo y Gabriela on the US East Coast. In 2009, Skolnick featured a solo on Atman for Rodrigo y Gabrielas studio hit album 11,11. The Alex Skolnick Trio was also the support band on Rodrigo Y Gabrielas consecutive European and US tour in 2010. Alex released a 3 DVD Jazz tuition set with Rock House Method in May 2010, – a jazz duo album by pianist-composer Randy Klein released in October 2012. Skolnick has also active in blending music with works of art. In 2007, he contributed a solo for Egyptian artist Nader Sadeks project, the song was only to be heard in an art gallery in New York
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra
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The band gained in popularity when they began touring in 1999 after completing their second album, The Christmas Attic the year previous. In 2007, the Washington Post referred to them as an arena-rock juggernaut and described their music as Pink Floyd meets Yes, TSO has sold more than 10 million concert tickets and over 10 million albums. Both Billboard Magazine and Pollstar have ranked them as one of the top ten ticket-selling bands in the first decade of the new millennium. ONeill took his first steps into music in the 1970s when he started the progressive rock band Slowburn, for whom he was the lyricist. What was intended to be the debut album was recorded at Jimi Hendrixs Electric Lady Studios. Although Wittmans engineering was capturing the exact sound ONeill was hearing in his head, rather than releasing an album that he was not happy with, he shelved the project, but continued working in the industry at Contemporary Communications Corporation, company at the time. Over the years, ONeill continued to work as a writer, producer, manager, in 1996, he accepted Atlantic Records offer to start his own band. He built the band on a foundation created by the marriage of classical and rock music and he brought in Oliva, Kinkel, and Pitrelli to help start the project. ONeill has stated, My original concept was six rock operas, in the 1980s I was fortunate enough to have visited Russia. If anyone has ever seen Siberia, it is beautiful but incredibly harsh. The one thing that everyone who lives there has in common that runs across it in safety is the Trans-Siberian Railway. Life, too, can be beautiful but also incredibly harsh and unforgiving. It was a bit overly philosophical, but it sounded different. Their debut album, the first installment of the intended Christmas Trilogy, was an opera called Christmas Eve and Other Stories. It remains among their best-selling albums and it contains the instrumental Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 which originally appeared on Savatages rock opera, Dead Winter Dead, a story about the Bosnian War. Their 1998 release The Christmas Attic, the sequel to Christmas Eve and this album produced the hit Christmas Canon, a take on Johann Pachelbels Canon in D major with lyrics and new melodies added. The Christmas Attic was first performed live in 2014, Beethovens Last Night was completed prior to Christmas Attic but not turned in to Atlantic Records until 1999 for release in 2000. The story begins when Mephistopheles appears before Beethoven, whom Paul ONeill refers to as the worlds first Heavy Metal Rock Star, of course Beethoven is horrified at the thought of eternal damnation, but the devil has an offer and the bargaining begins
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Geoff Tate
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Geoff Tate is a German-born American singer and musician. He rose to fame with the metal band Queensrÿche, who had commercial success with their 1988 album Operation. Tate is ranked fourteenth on Hit Paraders list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time and he was voted No.2 on That Metal Shows top 5 hard rock vocalists of the 1980s. In 2012, he won the Vegas Rocks, magazine Music Award for Voice in Progressive Heavy Metal. In 2015, he placed ninth on OC Weeklys list of the 10 Best High-Pitched Metal Singers, after his farewell tour as Queensrÿche, he renamed his band Operation, Mindcrime, after the Queensrÿche album of the same name. Tate was born in Stuttgart, which was part of West Germany. His mothers side of the family is from New Orleans, shortly after his birth, his family relocated to Tacoma, Washington. While Tate was in the band Babylon, he was asked to sing with the cover band The Mob at a rock festival. After Babylon broke up, Tate performed a few shows with The Mob, Tate then joined the progressive metal band Myth as lead vocalist and keyboardist. The band already had a set of songs, but one song was left without lyrics. Tate was asked to write lyrics to song, which would become the song The Lady Wore Black. The demo tape was widely circulated, and was released as an EP in 1982 on the 206 Records label, around this time, the name The Mob was changed to Queensrÿche, and Tate left Myth to become Queensrÿches permanent lead singer. Myth went on to record the album Arabia after Tate had left, Queensrÿche was signed to EMI in the summer of 1983, with a contract spanning 15 years and encompassing seven albums. EMI re-released the EP, Queensrÿche, to success, peaking at No.81 on the Billboard charts. With Queensrÿche, Tate had great successes, especially with the concept album Operation, Mindcrime, which was released in 1988, the band has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. On June 20,2012, it was announced that Queensrÿche had fired Tate, soon after, Tate and his wife Susan filed a lawsuit in a Washington court, saying that he was wrongfully terminated from the group. Until Tate lost the brand Queensrÿche in April 2014 to the band members. The lineup would originally feature Rudy Sarzo, Bobby Blotzer, Glen Drover, Drover left the band on November 23,2012
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Discordia (song)
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Discordia is a one-off single by Queensrÿche vocalist Todd La Torre and former Megadeth/King Diamond guitarist Glen Drover, released in August 2014. The song made the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Songs upon its release, discordia was conceived as part of a project spearheaded by Drover, who explained, I was thinking about doing an album of heavier stuff and have a bunch of guest musicians and singers on it. Chuck Billy was going to do something on it, Henning Basse and I covered an old Eidolon song that was never officially released, I just wanted to work with people that I really like in the industry and respect as musicians. I got in touch with Todd and asked him if hed be willing to do a song, one thing led to another, we did the track, and were really excited about it. As soon as I heard the track I thought it was great, Glen told me to just see what I could do with it, no pressure, no rush, and it turned out to be pretty quick and easy. Discordia by Glen Drover and Todd La Torre on YouTube
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Arsenal of Megadeth
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Arsenal of Megadeth is an anthology of Megadeths first 20 years. The 2-disc DVD set contains music videos, live performances, interviews, home videos, arsenal of Megadeth is an EMI/Capitol release. Arsenal of Megadeth is certified gold in the United States and platinum in Canada, excerpt from Talk Radio Peace Sells music video 1986 interview Wake Up Dead music video Penelope Spheeris Cutting Edge Happy Hour interview In My Darkest Hour music video So Far, So Good. Interview Anarchy in the U. K. music video No More Mr. Nice Guy music video Marty Friedman audition Rust in Peace TV spot Clash of the Titans tour,1990 Holy Wars
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That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires
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That One Night, Live in Buenos Aires is a live album from American heavy metal band Megadeth which was released on CD and DVD formats. It features a concert recorded in Buenos Aires on October 9,2005 at the Obras Sanitarias Stadium. The performance is segued by cuts of Dave and Glen performing a few songs for some fans on the lawn outside of the bands hotel. It was at this concert that Dave Mustaine announced that Megadeth would continue on past the 2005 tour, there are also four currently unreleased songs from the performance, missing from either the CD or DVD version. The 2 CD version was released on September 4,2007 and it was originally intended to be released at the same time as the DVD. The DVD was certified gold in the US for a shipping of 50,000 units and this is the only release by Megadeth to feature bassist James MacDonough. Allmusics Greg Prato rated the album at four stars and called That One Night further hard proof that Megadeth is one of the most precise, about. coms Chad Bowar also rated the album at four stars and stated everything came together well for this release. The crowd is outstanding, even singing along to guitar riffs, the audio quality is excellent, and captures enough crowd noise without being distracting. Megadeth is one of the thrash bands of all time
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Chris Broderick
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Christopher Alan Broderick is an American musician, best known as the former lead and rhythm guitarist of the American heavy metal band Megadeth. Before joining Megadeth and while still in Jag Panzer, he was also a touring guitarist for Nevermore between 2001 and 2003 and then again between 2006 and 2007 and he is now the Lead Guitarist for Act of Defiance, which he formed with fellow ex-Megadeth bandmate, Shawn Drover. Broderick started playing guitar when he was 11 years old and his playing styles range from metal, classical, neoclassical, and jazz. Broderick has been said to have practiced 14 hours a day during his summers as a teen and he practiced electric guitar, classical guitar, piano, and violin under a strict daily routine. He has said that at time it seemed more like a chore than for entertainment. He was a player in the Denver music scene from 1988 on in bands Grey Haven, Industrial Eden. He also has a degree in guitar music performance at the University of Denvers Lamont School of Music. He is also interested in guitar and rates Paco de Lucia as his favourite guitarist. In 1997, guitarist Joey Tafolla left Jag Panzer for the second time, for the band, this was a huge problem. Tafollas guitar work was complex and technical, and as far as they knew few guitarists could comprehend it and this is when Chris was brought into the fold of Jag Panzer and stayed with them for almost a decade. He played on four of the bands albums, 1998s The Age of Mastery, 2000s Thane to the Throne, 2001s Mechanized Warfare, 2003s compilation album Decade of the Nail Spiked Bat and 2004s Casting the Stones. During the time period of 2000 –2003 and some of 2004 Chris was taking part in the shows of heavy metal band Nevermore. After the release of the album, This Godless Endeavor, he once again to tour with Nevermore until joining Megadeth in 2008. In late 2007, rumors had been circulating that Megadeth guitarist Glen Drover had left the band and this was proved to be true after statements released from both Glen and Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. The night after the statements were released, Megadeth drummer Shawn Drover brought up Chris as a possible replacement, Shawn then showed Dave a video of Chris playing both classical and electric guitar. Dave was immediately won over and soon managed to get in contact with Chris, two weeks later, Broderick was officially declared the new guitarist for Megadeth. Due to extensive touring with Megadeth he was no longer be able to collaborate with Jag Panzer, Dave Mustaine said that when he partnered up with Broderick, he said that it reminded him of when Ozzy Osbourne met Randy Rhoads. On March 8,2009, Dave commented that he thought Chris was the greatest guitarist Megadeth has ever had, in the then-current line up of the band, he was the youngest member in Megadeth
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Andy LaRocque
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Andy LaRocque is best known as a guitarist, songwriter, and occasional synth player for the band King Diamond. LaRocque started in the Swedish hard rock band Swedish Beauty that later switched names to Swedish Erotica and he also played on the Death album Individual Thought Patterns and the IllWill album Evilution, along with other former members of Mercyful Fate. According to Metal-Rules. com, Deaths Individual Thought Patterns is the 100th greatest heavy metal album of all time, also according to Metal-Rules, it is the 11th greatest extreme metal album of all time. It is included in Guitar Player Magazines Metal Guitar albums Top 20, LaRocque contributed a guitar solo to the track Cold, featured on the album Slaughter of the Soul by Swedish melodic death metal group At the Gates. Producer Fredrik Nordström was responsible for the idea, and telephoned LaRocque, at the Gates guitarist Anders Björler gave LaRocque an audio cassette recording of the song. The tape played at the speed at LaRocques house, so LaRocque had to transcribe the recording. Two days after receiving the cassette, LaRocque laid down a solo for the song within half an hour. Björler described the solo as great and in a November 2007 interview admitted he couldnt play the solo properly. He can be heard on albums as well, such as Falconers Chapters from a Vale Forlorn. He owns a studio called the Los Angered Recordings in Angered, Sweden, since 1995, in 2007, Andy moved the studio to Varberg and renamed the studio to Sonic Train Studios where he keeps producing bands to this date. His extended theory knowledge makes him able to mix these neo-classical scales with other such as blues scale or melodic minor. He has a distinct guitar tone for his solos, and often incorporates layers of harmonies over his scale runs. He frequently uses a mixture of classically flavored arpeggio sequences and alternate picked scale runs intermixed with melody lines to create his signature style and he cites Michael Schenker and Randy Rhoads as major influences. He also likes Steve Vai, Tony Iommi, and was impressed by the playing of Chuck Schuldiner when he recorded Individual Thought Patterns with him. P, Hell, on – The Hunt – guitar solo at Slaughter Smell Andy LaRocque owns Sonic Train Studios from Varberg, Sweden. Grandeur Sandalinas – Living on the Edge Runemagick – Envenom Taetre Lord Belial Darzamat – Transkarpatia Hyeronymus Bosch – Equivoke XXX – Heaven, Hell or Hollywood. 2 Deathmeister, Vol.1 Metalmeister, Vol.3 Metal Blade Records 20th Anniversary Louder Than the Dragon, The Essential of Limb Music Sonic Train Studios Official website
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Mike Wead
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Mike Wead, is a Swedish guitarist who lives in Stockholm. Wead contributed to heavy metal such as Hexenhaus, Memento Mori, Abstrakt Algebra, The Haunted, Edge of Sanity, Candlemass. Currently Wead is the guitarist of Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, as a guitarist in King Diamond, Wead shares lead guitar duties with Andy LaRocque. Wead also works as a producer and sound engineer, nachtgeist With Minions Soul Mirror With Entombed When in Sodom With Zoromr Corpus Hermeticum Mike Wead on Myspace
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Mikkey Dee
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Micael Kiriakos Delaoglou, known better by his stage name Mikkey Dee, is a Swedish rock musician. He is the current drummer for German rock band Scorpions since April 2016, Dee is best known for his time in British rock band Motörhead, with whom he played for from 1992 to 2015, the band disbanded following the death of frontman Lemmy. He has also played with King Diamond, Don Dokken, Helloween and he was born in Gothenburg, Sweden to a Greek father and a Swedish mother. Delaoglou began his career with local bands Nadir and Geisha. His favourite drummer is Ian Paice, other influences include Brian Downey, Neil Peart and Steve Smith. Dee also gives credit to Buddy Rich, having moved to Copenhagen to play with Geisha, in 1985, Dee joined King Diamond, who were looking for additional members to complete their line-up. Dee played on the King Diamond recordings Fatal Portrait, Abigail, after the completion of the supporting tour for Them, Mikkey Dee decided to leave the band, as he felt he was becoming more of a back-up musician, rather than an equal contributing songwriter. However, he was rehired to play drums for the recording of the bands follow-up album Conspiracy. He joined Don Dokken for his album, Up from the Ashes, with the music videos for the songs Stay. The band headlined their own tour, as well as opened for Judas Priest, during this time, Dee also filled in a short time playing for World War Three. Commenting on his replacement of a member of the band, Dee said in a 2006 interview. So I could never have filled that space and its like when you get married and have kids, no one can take my fathers place. Of course, some other guy could have taken his place, but he wouldnt have been my father, so I could never be Phil Taylor, so I had to introduce Mikkey Dee into Motörhead. Dee did play on the tracks Hellraiser, which was on the album, and Hell on Earth, which was not on the album, although Aldridge recorded most of the drum tracks, Dees photo appeared on the rear album sleeve. Aldridge generously said that Dee could take his credit for the playing but Dee politely declined, in an ironic reversal, Aldridge had earlier had his photo on an album on which he played nothing, namely Ozzy Osbournes Diary of a Madman. Their record label, Epic Records dropped the band after its release, the band also started a label themselves, called Motörhead, which was copyrighted and distributed through Warner-Chappell and ZYX, Dees first album for this label being 1993s Bastards. He also played drums on Helloweens 2003 album Rabbit Dont Come Easy, in April 2006 King Diamond reunited with old friend Mikkey Dee at a sold-out gig at Kåren in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2001 King referred to Dee as one of the best of all time, Dee also played the drums for Martin E-Type Eriksson in the Swedish pre-qualification to the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, as well as on E-Types 2003 Eurometal tour
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Snowy Shaw
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Snowy Shaw, born on 25 July 1968, is a Swedish heavy metal musician, based in the port city of Gothenburg in the west coast of Sweden. He has played with heavy metal bands, like King Diamond, Dream Evil, Mercyful Fate, IllWill, Notre Dame. Snowy is adept at playing guitar as well as drums and additionally featured as a songwriter in Dream Evil. In October 2006 Snowy joined the metal band Therion, singing on the Gothic Kabbalah album. In 2012 and 2013 Snowy Shaw was on tour with Sabaton,1989 – Snowy Shaw joined King Diamond, touring North America. 1990 – Snowy Shaw tours Europe with King Diamond and worked on project called The Shaman a. k. a. 1992 – Formed the band Memento Mori with Mike Wead and Messiah Marcolin,1994 – On the side of his mainband IllWill. Snowy are involved, plays shows and records with Whipped Cream, Colossus,1996 – Snowy Shaw does his first contributions as multi-instrumentalist solo artist on a tribute album for KISS. 1997 – Records albums with various project such as Supergroupies and psychedelic popband Bad Karma, puts all the other projects aside to form his own band Notre Dame, that first appear this year on a Mercyful Fate tribute album. 1998 – Snowy now spends all his working, writing and recording for Notre Dame. The debut CD is released on Halloween,2000 – Was asked by producer and guitarist Fredrik Nordström to join new power/melodic metal band Dream Evil. Declined, but agreed to do some session drumming for the bands first album Dragonslayer,2001 – Snowy is hired as session drummer for the solo album of former Europe and Easy Action guitarist Kee Marcello namely K2. 2002 – Decided to join Dream Evil as a full member, worked with Them Sluts. as well as keeping up with his own band Notre Dame. 2004 – Notre Dame was disbanded after one last show on Halloween in hometown Gothenburg,2005 – Quit Kee Marcellos K2 after their appearance on Eurovision song contest. Notre Dames live album CREEPSHOW FREAKSHOW PEEPSHOWis released by Shaws own indie label, Snowy works for Revolver Film Company as prop/decor designer and assistant. 2006 – Write and record new material with Dream Evil but due to problems within the camp Snowy decides to leave the band. Produced and generally helping out his friends in the Swedish glam/sleaze band Loud N´Nasty, Snowy was hired as singer in Therion. Apart from his singing duties Snowy is hired to design and manufacture everything visual for the stage act, kamelots live show One Cold Winters Night in Oslo, Norway, features Snowys guest appearance as Mephisto, Shagraths character on the bands concept album The Black Halo
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Sharlee D'Angelo
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Sharlee DAngelo is the Swedish bassist for the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as the stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars and the blackened thrash/speed metal band Witchery. DAngelo has also been in bands in the past, either as a studio session player or full member. These include Arch Enemy, Mercyful Fate, Dismember, King Diamond and he plays with Dunlop picks and primarily used Rickenbacker basses in his early career, before switching to playing and endorsing Ibanez Iceman basses in 2005. Ibanez now produces the Sharlee DAngelo signature bass, called the SDB2, DAngelo has cited a number of bass players as early influences, including Roger Glover, Glenn Hughes, Steve Dawson, Peter Baltes, and John Entwistle
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Chris Estes
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Christopher Douglas Estes is a former King Diamond bass player. Originally from Dodge City, Kansas, Chris moved to Denton, during his time at UNT he met Darrin Anthony Stull and joined his unsigned Dallas band Mindstorm. In early 1994 three members of Mindstorm were officially asked to join King Diamond, during his tenure with King Diamond, Chris recorded three albums and took part in three tours, in addition earning writing credits on the album Voodoo. Returning to college in 1997 and attending classes between studio sessions and tour, Chris eventually earned a degree in Computer Science, in the summer of 1999, Chris received word that the studio session for House of God had been postponed. Burdened by immediate financial needs, Chris reluctantly resigned his position in King Diamond, Chris currently lives and works in Richardson, Texas as a computer programmer. Chris continues to write and perform music as a hobby in his free time, King Diamond – The Spiders Lullabye King Diamond – The Graveyard Fakkulty – Southern Hostility King Diamond – Voodoo Mercyful Fate – Into the Unknown King Diamond – The Graveyard
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Fatal Portrait
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Fatal Portrait is the debut album by the heavy metal band King Diamond. The album was released in 1986 on Roadrunner Records and it is the only King Diamond album to date in which guitarist Andy LaRocque does not receive writing credits. Fatal Portrait was produced by Rune Hoyer, along with The Spiders Lullabye, this is one of the bands only albums which is not a whole concept album. This album has sold over 100,000 copies in North America alone, five songs on this album form a short story. Narrator sees a face in every candle that burns and this face speaks one word to him, Jonah. So he finds an old book, speaks a rhyme and frees the spirit from the candle and its the spirit of a little girl named Molly, who tells him her story, that happened seven years before. Mrs. Jane kept her 4-year-old daughter Molly in the attic until she died, mrs. Jane then speaks a rhyme and burns the portrait. A free spirit of Molly returns to haunt her until she goes insane, all lyrics written by King Diamond
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Abigail (album)
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Abigail is the second King Diamond album and their first concept album. It was released in 1987 on Roadrunner Records, there were several re-releases, first in 1997 with 4 bonus tracks, and then a 25th Anniversary edition in 2005 with a bonus DVD. This album has sold over 175,000 copies in North America alone, Abigail tells the story of a young couple, Miriam Natias and Jonathan LaFey, who move into an old mansion that LaFey inherited. It takes place in the summer of 1845, at their arrival they are warned by seven horsemen not to move into the house because if they do 18 will become 9. They do not heed the warning and proceed to move into the mansion, during their first night, Jonathan meets with Count LaFey, the Family Ghost, who is a deceased relative. The ghost shows him a casket in which a corpse of a child, Abigail. The ghost informs him that Miriam is carrying the spirit of Abigail and he insists that Jonathan must kill Miriam at once to prevent the rebirth. Enraged, he threw the Countess down the stairs, breaking her neck, in one incident an empty cradle is discovered by Jonathan swaying in the air, with both him and Miriam insisting that they didnt bring it with them. The next day, Miriam is clearly pregnant and the fetus develops quickly, the fatal crisis begins when Jonathan accuses Abigail of possessing Miriam, and Abigail admits it. Therefore, Jonathan pretends to give in to Abigails demands, however, as the couple stands at the top of the stairs, Jonathan is distracted and the possessed Miriam throws Jonathan down the stairs. Miriam gives birth to Abigail, but dies shortly afterwards, her last sight being of Abigails yellow eyes, the seven horsemen arrive at the mansion and discover the baby Abigail in the sarcophagus, eating something too horrifying for the narrator to mention. Appalled, they take her away to bury her in a chapel in the forest with seven silver spikes driven through her body. This boss also has a very similar to King Diamonds. There is also a tribute to Kings father in the liner notes, the video for The Family Ghost was featured in the Beavis and Butt-head episode Bungholio, Lord of the Harvest. Abigail on King Diamond Coven Abigail on Amazon. com
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Them (King Diamond album)
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Them is the third studio album by King Diamond released in 1988 on Roadrunner Records. It is the first of two concept albums about King and his mentally ill grandmother, the second of these being Conspiracy. King falls into a descent into madness via his grandmother. This album has sold over 200,000 copies in North America alone, as the album opens, a young King and his mother and sister are welcoming Kings grandmother home from a mental asylum. That night, King investigates strange voices and discovers his grandmother having a tea party seemingly alone, though with the teacups, King is invited into the room, to sit in his grandmothers chair. King is sent back to bed, but only after staring into his grandmothers eyes, on another occasion, Grandma awakens King and tells him that she will teach him about Amon, their house, over a cup of tea. Grandma cuts Kings sleeping mothers hand and adds her blood to the teapot, the voices of the house begin to affect King with a drug-like effect. Kings sister Missy tries to convince King that they should do something to help their mother, who is unconscious under their power and he refuses to call for help and cuts the phone line. At tea, Missy interrupts and furiously expresses concern about her mothers state and they, in response to the breaking of their teapot, chop Missy into bits with an axe and throw the remains into the fireplace in the kitchen. King is snapped out of his spell, and he stumbles outside, after fainting and regaining consciousness, he decides to attack his grandmother. He notices that their power is weakened outside the house, so he lures his grandmother outside, the voices of Amon continue to haunt the boy as he is questioned by police and incarcerated in an asylum. Years later, he is released and returns home to find his grandmother, the song Welcome Home and lyrics from the song Invisible Guests were featured in the movie Clerks II. Welcome Home was also featured in the 2009 video game Brütal Legend
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Conspiracy (King Diamond album)
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Conspiracy is a name of a concept album by King Diamond, being the second part of a story that begun on the album Them. The song Cremation appears in the 2009 video game Brütal Legend, conspiracy was the last album to feature original drummer Mikkey Dee. In this sequel to Them, an adult King returns to the House of Amon to reclaim his place as heir to the house. However, unanswered questions about his sisters death, his mothers involvement with his diabolical therapist and he makes a deal with Them to return control of the house to Them in exchange for the chance to see his now-dead sister Missy again. He believes she can answer some of his questions. An agreement is reached, and Missy returns from the grave nightly to help King uncover some of the mysteries from Them, as a spirit, however, she cannot save him from the plot against him, try as she may to warn him. His mother and his doctor have conspired to get rid of him permanently in order to inherit the house themselves, while they think they are ultimately successful, the album closes with Kings promise to torture and haunt them forever from beyond the grave. The Wedding Dream contains the elements of The Wedding March by Mendelson in the introduction, King Diamond - vocals, keyboards Andy LaRocque - guitar Pete Blakk - guitar Hal Patino - bass Roberto Falcao - keyboards Mikkey Dee - drums
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The Eye (King Diamond album)
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The Eye is a concept album by King Diamond released in 1990. It continues to feature a major storyline such as other King Diamond albums and his two prior concept albums had been told from the perspective of the protagonists, this one is told from the view of a narrator. The themes of Christian atrocity with the persecution of alleged witches, the story is almost entirely historically accurate, including the names of the actual characters. The story starts off with an unnamed character finding a necklace called The Eye and they see an accused witch named Jeanne Dibasson being tortured and burned at the stake. Next they see two little girls finding the necklace in the ashes at a stake, and what they see when they look in the eye kills them. Finally there is the story of Madeleine Bavent, a nun working in the Louviers convent, after being raped by Father David, she uses the necklace to kill him by making him look into it. Shortly after, the new Chaplain, Father Picard, arrives and he winds up lacing their communion wine with some substance that lets him control their minds, and uses a group of nuns including Madeleine to ritually torture and kill children. In 1642 all are arrested and imprisoned, the main parts of the stories told on this album are true, and took place during the French Inquisition, 1450-1670. All of the characters are real and from that period of time, Nicolas de la Reynie, Head investigator of the Christian Burning Court, in Paris. Madeleine Bavent, 18-year-old French nun who entered the convent at Louviers in 1625, Father Pierre David, Chaplain of the convent at Louviers till his death in 1628. Father Mathurin Picard, Chaplain of the convent at Louviers from 1628 to his death in 1642 and this marked the first King Diamond album without Mikkey Dee recording the drums. The drummer on this album was Snowy Shaw, Falcao wrote Two Little Girls with King Diamond, but wasnt credited. King Diamond - vocals, keyboards Andy LaRocque - guitars Pete Blakk - guitars Hal Patino - bass Snowy Shaw - drums Roberto Falcao - keyboards
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The Spider's Lullabye
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The Spiders Lullabye is the sixth studio album by King Diamond released in 1995. Unlike other King Diamond albums, it is not a concept album. Only half the songs form a single plot and it was also the first King Diamond album to be released on the Metal Blade label. The album was remastered by Andy LaRocque and was re-released in 2009, the first half of the songs on this album are listed as a variety of short stories before the second half form the plot. From the Other Side Tells about the struggle with an out-of-body experience. Killer Describes a Richard Ramirez-type serial killer who is being put to death by electric chair, the Poltergeist Revolves around a ghost hunter who detects a spirit in their home. Fearing the invading ghost is evil, we are unsure of the ghosts personality. The song ends with the ghost overcoming the hunter, who allows the ghost to stay forever, the sleepers finds out the little girls were not what they appeared to be and screams to escape the nightmare. Moonlight Tells about a group of cursed children, similar to the 1960 movie Village of the Damned and his family mentioned in the song are, Grandma, Kings mother, his sister Missy, his grandfather, etc. The Spiders Lullabye Focuses on a man named Harry who is terrified of spiders and, out of desperation. Eastmanns Cure Is the continuing plot of Harry answering an ad in the newspaper about a psychiatric hospital that specializes in curing phobias of all kinds. The second character in the song Dr. Eastmann introduces himself to Harry as a kind, Room 17 In Room 17, a confident Harry awaits Dr. Eastmann and his assistant Nurse Needle Dear to begin his treatment and cure. The so-called treatment was nothing more than a session when Nurse Needle unleashes a wolf spider from the Crawly Box. The next day, Harry complains of having a feeling on his neck, spider bites. Dr. Eastmann dismisses Harrys comments and thinks nothing more of it, Dr. Eastman comes to the realization that Harry had clearly died of fright. To the Morgue Along with other patients who have died for reasons unknown, King Diamond - vocals, keyboards Andy LaRocque - guitars, keyboards Herb Simonsen - guitar Chris Estes - bass Darrin Anthony - drums
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The Graveyard (album)
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The Graveyard is a concept album by King Diamond released in 1996. This was also the first album by King Diamond to be featured on the Massacre Records label, the album was remastered by Andy LaRocque and was re-released in 2009. This album is one of the most successful King Diamonds albums peaking at #23 in the Finnish Charts, in this story, Kings character is an employee for a crooked, perverted and immoral mayor, Mayor McKenzie. One night, Kings character happens to walk in on his boss molesting his daughter, King doesnt keep quiet about this, but the mayor testifies that King is insane and has him locked up in Black Hill Sanitarium. After years of being there, King sees his chance to escape and takes it, strangling the nurse that arrives at his cell to administer his medication, now mentally destroyed, King runs off to the local graveyard to hide from the police. With that thought in the back of his mind, he kidnaps Lucy McKenzie, the mayors daughter, eventually, Mayor McKenzie does arrive after King calls him by phone. Before he arrives, King buries Lucy - still conscious - in one of seven empty graves, King eventually reveals himself to the Mayor and offers him a game. Mayor must dig out his daughter from one of seven graves while wearing a blindfold. There are seven mounds, and hell have three guesses or else hell kill both of them, the Mayor gets the third guess right, but King knocks him out, dragging to his tomb and tying him down. While the Mayor slowly regains consciousness, King digs up Lucy, to Kings surprise, Lucy ends up pulling down on a cord that sends a sheet of broken glass from a broken chapel window down on King, decapitating him. The legend he was obsessed with turns out to be true, to his relief, Lucy takes Kings head and puts it in her backpack, so King can be with her forever. King Diamond - All Vocals, Keyboards Andy LaRocque - Guitars Herb Simonsen - Guitars Chris Estes - Bass Darrin Anthony - Drums
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Voodoo (King Diamond album)
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Voodoo is a concept album by King Diamond. The album was released in 1998, the album cover is drawn by Kristian Wåhlin. The album was remastered by Andy LaRocque and was re-released in 2009, Voodoo takes place in the year 1932 and deals with the affairs of the Lafayettes, a family consisting of Sarah, David, and Grandpa. They move to an old house on the Mississippi River, just north of Baton Rouge. Unknown to the Lafayettes, the houses servant, Salem, is involved in voodoo. Salem partakes in voodoo rituals at the graveyard, along with Doctor le Croix, a sorcerer, Madame Sarita, and Lula Chevalier. The Lafayettes hear the drums from the ceremonies in the graveyard. They call a meeting with Salem to discuss what should be done. The Lafayettes decide to destroy the voodoo burial ground, Salem does not want this to happen, so he sneaks out at midnight to talk to Doctor le Croix. Le Croix gives Salem money to buy some goofer dust, Salem puts a snake in Davids room, mixes haunted graveyard dirt in Grandpas food, and, after talking to the dead Baron Samedi, pours goofer dust on Sarah while she sleeps. David and Grandpa become very ill, and Sarah becomes possessed with a voodoo spirit, Grandpa manages to call Father Malone, an exorcist. Father Malone travels to the house to rid Sarah of her possessor. He fails, and is rendered unconscious from exhaustion, while he is unconscious, Lula brings the heavy, nail-riddled ceremonial cross of Baron Samedi to the possessed Sarah. Sarah attacks Malone with the cross, almost killing him, Grandpa comes in and tells Sarah to stop, and she does, which saves Father Malones life. Grandpa calls the police and ambulance, which arrive two hours later, the story concludes with Salem speaking about the aftermath of the situation, which also reveals that he escaped the events of the mansion. He explains that the Lafayettes abandoned the old house after leaving the hospital. Sarahs child was born and it was speaking in the strangest tongue. backwards, some expert had uttered the word. Voodoo. Voodoo is one of the best-selling King Diamonds albums and it peaked at #27 in the Finnish Charts remaining four weeks in the Top 40 and it peaked at #55 in the Swedish Charts, but remaining for just one week
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Abigail II: The Revenge
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Abigail II, The Revenge is an album by King Diamond released in 2002 and is plotwise a successor to the 1987 album Abigail. The cover art was done by Travis Smith, according to the liner notes, the character of Brandon Henry is based on Kings friend, Brandon J. Henry, who looks after Kings house when he is on the road. The plot correlates with that of the original album Abigail, and the listener discovers that she is actually the half-sister of OBrian, the year is 1863, and Abigail has just turned 18 years old. While out walking in the forest, she is caught in a storm that takes her by surprise, causing her to lose her way and stumble upon the LaFey Mansion, the gates to which are locked tight. Certain that she will succumb to the elements, Abigail is surprised to see Little One, Abigail enters the mansion and is greeted by Jonathans imposing and shaven-headed servant, Brandon Henry. It is revealed that Jonathan did not die after he fell down the stairs and he has not moved on from Miriams death and now calls himself Count de LaFey. He greets Abigail, calling her Miriam and believing she is his beloved and he coaxes Abigail into sleeping with him in his bed, where he rapes her in an attempt to produce an heir. Abigail, fueled with vengeance, goes to the crypt to see her past incarnation, Brandon Henry, who had warned her to never go into the crypt, finds her there, Abigail takes a sharp necklace from the mummified babys neck and slits his throat. She puts broken glass in Jonathans food, beats him with his cane while he chokes on his own blood, and then him on fire. The fire spreads from Jonathan to the window-curtains and finally to Abigails dress, and she and the mansion are consumed by the flames
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The Puppet Master (album)
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The Puppet Master is an album by King Diamond released in 2003. A limited edition includes a DVD on which King Diamond is telling the story of The Puppet Master, King Diamond meets Victoria after a Christmas show put on by the Puppet Master in Budapest. They kiss after the show and feel a magic come over them, one year after they meet, his beloved goes missing after wanting to see the show again and he sets out to find her. While searching, he comes across the Puppet Masters wife killing a homeless man and he follows her into a building where he is struck from behind and loses consciousness. When King regains consciousness, the master is performing a ritual to exchange Kings soul in order to imbue temporary life into his eyes. An accident during the ritual with the Devil leaves King Diamonds soul trapped within his permanently aware eyes and he then finds himself strapped to a hospital bed and The Puppet Master and his wife standing in front of him with a scalpel. The Puppet Master leans over him and says, First your eyes and we will make you feel born again. And starts to cut out his eyes, one eyelid drops down into a jar. The Puppet Master uses an instrument to pull the eyeball out of its socket, the Puppet Master then puts the eyeball into a puppets eye socket. His body is being made into a puppet that comes to life when blood is injected into it and it is after this that he sees his wifes body, now a puppet, on another shelf in the Puppet Masters shop. King Diamond and his beloved are infused with a syringe-full of their blood nightly, so they can practice their routines, each night, after being put away, King and his beloved talk with their eyes from across the room as the essence of their blood fades away. King Diamond is forced to witness her fading away every night, once instructed to dance by the Puppet Master, Victoria stumbles into the wall where jars of blood for the puppets are stored on shelves, knocking six of them down. She is then sent away to Berlin and King vows to find her again, Christmas time comes around for the third time in the tale, and King is to perform as The Little Drummer Boy. At his performance, he falls and breaks his drum to embarrass the Puppet Master. For his actions, he is sold to a shop and left nailed to the wall, Christmas contains an excerpt from The Little Drummer Boy written by Davis – Onorati – Simeone. Arranged by King Diamond King Diamond – vocals, keyboards Andy LaRocque – guitars, keyboards Mike Wead – guitars Hal Patino – bass guitar Matt Thompson – drums Livia Zita – additional vocals
