RHAPSODY are proud to present the new visual creation of the talented director OWE LINGVALL of DREAMDAY MEDIA (http://www.dreamdaymedia.com).
It is the video realized for the song DARK FATE OF ATLANTIS, the first single extracted from the new album ASCENDING TO INFINITY, to be released on JUNE 22 by NUCLEAR BLAST.
The song was edited and made shorter for the video while on the album it will appear in its original version of 6:29 minutes. Watch the clip below.
The members of Luca Turilli’s RHAPSODY state:
“This video represents just the first step of the collaboration between RHAPSODY and DREAMDAY MEDIA, the company of our friend Owe. He was just the right choice for a band willing to sound and look cinematic like ours.
We share with him the passion for the cinema, we are amazed by his ability of turning our cinematic visions into reality and at the same time he loves the cinematic impact of our music.
This means Owe is and will be our artistic partner at all effects, now and in the future. The first results of this unique collaboration will be announced very soon, therefore please expect great visual surprises in the months to come, headliner tour included!”
RTN-TOURING and ALL ACCESS , in association with NUCLEAR BLAST and Owe Lingvall’s DREAMDAY MEDIA, are working right now on the ASCENDING TO INFINITY CINEMATIC WORLD TOUR 2012/2013 that will bring the cinematic metal of RHAPSODY on the stages of the whole world. Dates soon to be announced!
“We tried it but we understood in a short time that it would have been really impossible to have our friend and drummer ALEX HOLZWARTH playing for both RHAPSODY and RHAPSODY OF FIRE. In these conditions there was simply no way to go on and right now, having two tour agencies working for us and starting the planning of the live activity, we agreed that the best is to keep the two bands completely independent from each other. That’s why some time ago we found the only possible solution. Alex Holzwarth will go on playing for RHAPSODY OF FIRE and this makes sense because also his brother is playing in that band too. From our side, after thanking Alex for all the wonderful moments shared together and to have recorded the new album showing once more all his great technical skill, we started looking around trying to find a special person that could have taken his important place. Well, we can tell you that we found that person and it is surely special, very special… honestly one of the best drummers around we had the chance to listen to.
Therefore we are really proud to announce that the new drummer and permanent band member of RHAPSODY will be Mr. ALEX LANDENBURG. We are honored to have Alex with us, we admire his unique talent and we are sure we will have a lot of fun together, in the years to come, on the stages of the whole world!”
RHAPSODY ALEX LANDENBURG ABOUT ALEX:
Alex’s first major step into the spotlight was at age 26 when Jeff Waters asked him to join one of Canada’s most important Metal acts ever – ANNIHILATOR. He toured with Annihilator, supporting the record “Metal” which was recorded by none other than drum legend Mike Mangini. Shortly after touring Europe and the U.K. with Annihilator he was asked to replace yet another drum legend. Uli Kusch himself, of Helloween and Masterplan fame, asked Alex to replace him in the legendary progressive band MEKONG DELTA, the brainchild of composer and bass virtuoso Ralf Hubert. After working extensively with Mekong Delta and playing to fans in Greece, Russia, Norway or Denmark, to name a few, Alex joined yet another famous German act in late 2008. AXXIS, one of Germany’s biggest acts of the early nineties, asked Alex to be their new drummer and record their upcoming album “Utopia” with them. After releasing “Utopia” which made an impressive chart debut at rank 36 in Germany, Axxis toured Europe, including performances at some of the most important festivals in the Metal and Rock scene such as Master of Rock festival. Recently Alex gained a reputation as an excellent drum clinician too. In late 2009 he did clinics for DrumCraft drums in Shanghai/China and also at events such as the Musik Produktiv Messe in Switzerland where Alex had the honor of headlining the drum performances alongside drum superstar Jojo Mayer.
Later that year DrumCraft released a public edition of Alex’s first signature drum set, strictly limited to 50 units, which sold out within weeks after release. In 2010 Drumheads magazine included Alex in their special issue “Drumheroes” which covered Germany’s 50 most influential drummers. In the fall of 2010 Alex was asked to play drums for the Melodic Metal act STRATOVARIUS and to step in for their drummer Jörg Michael for the duration of the first part of their mutual tour with Helloween. Despite the sad circumstances that led to this – Jörg had been diagnosed with cancer, which luckily he has completely recovered from in the meantime – that tour was another highlight in Alex’s career till that point. Even more recently, in early 2011, Alex was asked again to step in for Uli Kusch, this time replacing him in Timo Tolkki’s (ex-Stratovarius) new “super group” SYMFONIA featuring a fantastic line up of highly accomplished musicians such as Jari Kainulainen (ex-Stratovarius), Mikko Härkin (ex-Sonata Arctica) and legendary vocalist Andre Matos (ex-Angra). Together they did a tour of South America, playing to fans in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. Lately, Alex formed a new band together with his longtime friend and former Axxis bandmate Marco Wriedt called 21 OCTAYNE which just finished recording their debut album and is currently in talk with various labels.
Now, in 2012 Alex is super excited about his newest endeavour – playing with Luca Turilli’s RHAPSODY which he will join as their new permanent drummer! Alex states: “What an amazing opportunity to join the band together with new singer Alessandro Conti and to start this new chapter together! I can’t wait to get out on the road and to play the new stuff as well as the Rhapsody classics”!
Hi to all,
today is a great and very important day for our band. We are finally proud to present the new singer of RHAPSODY to the world, the person who, thanks to his unique vocal talent, will contribute to the artistic perspectives of the band in the years to come.
The secret is finally revealed: the new singer is Italian and his name is ALESSANDRO CONTI.
“Alessandro is the singer of our band since many months already but we wanted to present him in the way he deserves, and this means: through his voice!” says Luca Turilli, and adds: “We wanted to find a singer able to sing in different ways and offering different “colors”. Such ability is fundamental for me as in every RHAPSODY album I like to compose different styles of songs, passing from the most cinematic and epic impact of some songs to the operatic majesty of other ones, from celestial voices to more aggressive tones. Alessandro was just the best choice in this sense as, in between the multitude of all his vocal colors, he has a great high tone but also an operatic approach that makes the difference. He studied at the “Corale Lirica Rossini” of Modena as first tenor, the same school attended by the great and unforgettable Luciano Pavarotti”.
The first official statement of Alessandro as member of RHAPSODY:
“I am very enthusiastic to be the new voice of RHAPSODY and the person the band was searching for. ASCENDING TO INFINITY is just an amazing piece of art and maybe not even the word “epic” is enough to describe its emotional power… what is sure is that I am really proud to be part of it. Now I am looking forward to meeting all the existing and new RHAPSODY fans around the world. See you soon!”.
The new album is entitled ASCENDING TO INFINITY and will be released on JUNE 22 by NUCLEAR BLAST.
LINK TO THE EXCLUSIVE TRAILER AND TO LISTEN TO SOME EXCERPTS FROM THE UPCOMING RELEASE:
RHAPSODY have just finished recording a video in Stockholm, Sweden, for one of the singles of their upcoming album “Ascending To Infinity”. The song is called “Dark Fate Of Atlantis” and the director is OWE LINGVALL, talented artist of the company DREAM DAY MEDIA (http://www.dreamdaymedia.com), also known to have created visual masterpieces for bands like THE RASMUS and KAMELOT (“The Great Pandemonium”).
The band states: “We are impressed by the visionary style of Owe’s works. For a band willing to sound and look cinematic like RHAPSODY there was no better choice possible. The video will be spread for free around the world in the beginning of April. Our friend Owe will also be responsible for a bonus DVD including the video, the “making of” documentary related with it, and exclusive interviews with all the RHAPSODY band members. NUCLEAR BLAST will release this extra DVD with a playtime of more than one hour in the LIMITED EDITION of the new upcoming album “ASCENDING TO INFINITY”, to be released worldwide on June 29. An additional gift to all our fans around the world!”
RHAPSODY are proud to present the new cover artwork of the upcoming album ASCENDING TO INFINITY to be released worldwide on June, 29th by NUCLEAR BLAST.
The illustration was realized once again by Felipe Machado Franco, also known for his work for bands like Blind Guardian, Rhapsody Of Fire, Rage and Iron Savior (http://finalfrontier.thunderblast.net).
And finally a statement directly from the Luca Turilli’s RHAPSODY members:
“Hi to everybody. We all know that many of you were waiting for the news about our new singer and it is true that his name was supposed to be revealed right today.
But as the mix of the album already started and the result of his artistic performance on ASCENDING TO INFINITY is simply brilliant, then we decided to not present our singer by simply revealing his name.
Instead, with the next news of Tuesday, MARCH 27, we’ll present him in the best way possible, the one we know you surely prefer.”
This means that on that day you will have the possibility to discover him and his talent listening to some excerpts from our new album, exclusively from our new band’s website (http://WWW.LTRHAPSODY.COM)!!!
In the meantime we want to remember that you can check the latest news about the actual production of ASCENDING TO INFINITY and read the posts of the band members on the new Luca Turilli’s RHAPSODY Facebook page at http://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/LTRHAPSODY.
Stay tuned and see you on March, 27th!
A video trailer of the upcoming new release by Luca Turilli’s RHAPSODY can be viewed below.
Next year, guitarist / composer Luca Turilli will debut his new band – which includes guitarist Dominique Leurquin, bassist Patrice Guers, and drummer Alex Holzwarth – as RHAPSODY. The new album will also feature a full choir and orchestra and present the RHAPSODY’s new lead singer. More news to come on December 19th.
As previously announced this past August, Luca Turilli and keyboard player Alex Staropoli decided on an amicable split.
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