An Italian band that built heroic fantasy worlds with orchestral metal and soaring melodies.
If you want to hear their sound in one track, 'Dawn Of Victory' from 2000 captures everything. The newer 'Realms Of Light' shows they haven't lost that grand scale.
They defined a whole corner of symphonic metal with songs built around fantasy narratives and heavy guitars. 'Emerald Sword' and 'Power Of The Dragonflame' show how they mixed metal riffs with orchestral arrangements. Their sound feels like a movie score for a battle scene that never existed.
The band started as Rhapsody in 1997 with 'Legendary Tales', introducing their epic style. After guitarist Luca Turilli left in 2006, they became Rhapsody of Fire and kept making narrative-driven metal. They've maintained that approach from 'Symphony of Enchanted Lands' in 1998 to 'The Eighth Mountain' in 2019.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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