Band Name: van Canto
Status: Active
Genre: Hero Metal a-capella
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Country: Germany
Label: Napalm Records
van Canto is an a cappella metal band from Germany, founded in 2006. It is composed of five singers and a drummer.
van Canto fuses a cappella (non-instrumental vocal music) with heavy/speed metal, creating what they call "a capella metal". While only two of the five singers perform the lead vocals, the other three will instead use their voices to imitate the guitars and the bass, with the help of amplifiers, in attempt to sound closer to the original instruments.
As soon as the band was founded, its debut album, A Storm To Come, was released through General Schallplatten. It features seven original tracks, as well as cover versions of Metallica's "Battery" and "Stora Rövardansen" from the movie Ronja Rövardotter. Additionally, videos were shot for the tracks "The Mission", "Battery", and "Rain". On 30 September 2007, they announced a new drummer, Bastian Emig, who replaced Dennis Strillinger's position in the band. In December 2007, van Canto signed a worldwide record deal with Gun Records/Sony BMG. Also in December, the band were announced as part of the line up of the Wacken 2008 festival. The band also announced that their second album, titled "Hero", was in the progress of being recorded. Hero ended up being released on 26 September 2008, with producer Charlie Bauerfeind.
van Canto performed a South American promotional tour between 23 June and 2 July 2008. The live performances took place primarily in Brazil, which is the homeland of Ingo Sterzinger. Soon after, the band arrived in Germany to perform live at Wacken 2008. A new song, "Speed of Light", was released as a digital single on 8 August 2008. A music video was shot for the song as well.
As of late 2009, van Canto is recording their third studio album in Twilight Hall Studios, with Bauerfeind and via Napalm Records. The album will contain around 11 tracks, fewer covers than Hero and a couple of bonus tracks. It is due to be released worldwide in early 2010, which will happen alongside the worldwide release of their previous two albums. The album was announced at Nuclear Blast official website as Tribe of Force. The tracklisting features 13 tracks, two of them being covers ("Master of Puppets" by Metallica and "Rebellion" by Grave Digger), and three of them featuring guest artists: Victor Smolski (from Rage) guest appears in "One To Ten", Tony Kakko (from Sonata Arctica) guest appears on "Hearted" and Chris Boltendahl (from Grave Digger) guest appears in "Rebellion".
Inga/Lead Vocals
Sly/Lead Vocals
Stef/Lower rakkatakka and sologuitar vocals
Ross/Higher rakkatakka vocals
Ike/Deep dandan bass vocals
Basti/Drums and backing vocals
A Storm to Come (2006)(A)
Hero (2008)(A)
Tribe of Force (2010)(A)
LISTEN THEIR MUSIC AT :
van Canto - Official Homepage: http://www.vancanto.de/
van Canto - Official MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/vancanto
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3 comentarios:
muy buena banda!! me gusto mucho. soy de argentina bariloche sigan con exito. natali talyvane hotmail.com
I love this band so bad!! they are great and original!! Sounds good and Live they are even better!!
very nice, hero is my favorite album! creative and I hope someday their song recorded in real "guitar" mode
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