It’s time to don my armour, mount my trust warhorse Bayard, and ride into the
Emerald Kingdom to do battle with the Chevalier Noir and the legions of the
Lord of Chaos.
This is the brainchild of Michael Fiori, ‘
Saga’, a multi talented neo classical guitarist and keyboard player who also supplies a variety of suitably evil voices.
He is joined by two enchanting damsels, the operatic Adelaide Allard de Stave, ‘
Arya’, and Anais Chevallier, ‘Nymphadora’, on powerful melodic vocals.
This is for fans of
Rhapsody and
Fairyland, but it is far more orchestral, atmospheric and dramatic. This is true story telling music; ‘
Dragonland’ has wonderfully evocative lyrics about the
Black Knight’s beloved, ‘She comes preceded by a rotten smell, monstrous of her splendour. Her beauty is torture. The atrocity of her golden eyes corrupts soul and heart’. Sounds like a nice girl!
The songs are split between the more power metalish ‘
Dark Era’, ‘
Dragonland’ and ‘
Hell on
Earth’, and the full blown operatics of ‘Chevalier Noir’ and ‘Voyage Initiatique’, denoted by the use of English and French.
The Middle Eastern flavoured ‘
Eternal Life’ and ‘Akasha’ remind me of
Therion.
The stand out track is ‘
Emerald Kingdom’ which shows all their facets, orchestral drama, superb guitar work, and the interplay between the three very different voices.
There is so much packed into each song it really does repay repeat plays.
Michael is looking for label to release this wonderful epic, coming from Monaco, it must be worth a gamble, to hear more go www.myspace.com/bksymfonia.
I’m off to get the blood out of my tunic; do you think Persil will do it?
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