Haggard (band)

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Haggard
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The band performed in Glauchau in 2009
The band performed in Glauchau in 2009
General information
Genre (s) Classical , medieval music , death metal , symphonic metal
founding 1989
Website www.haggard.de
Current occupation
Asis Nasseri
Vocals (soprano)
 Janika Gross
Frank Schumacher
Claudio Quarta
Giacomo Astorri
Maurizio Guolo
Hans Wolf
Ingrid Nietzer
Aline Deinert
Cosmin Nechita
Anne Eberlein
Lisa Hellmich
Ivica Kramheller
Johannes Schleiermacher
Florinda Hoffmann
Catalina Popa
Stefana Sabau

Haggard ( English "wild"; "hager", "exhausted") is a German classical - medieval metal - orchestra from the area around Munich , whose music style is characterized by the combination of classical, medieval and renaissance music with contemporary metal elements . Due to the classic elements, the band is also assigned to symphonic metal .

history

The band was founded in 1989 by Asis Nasseri and gained a reputation in the death metal scene early on . Her musical style changed a lot after the first demo tapes and her first album And Thou Shalt Trust… The Seer from 1997 marked her breakthrough. After the second album Awaking The Centuries from 2000 they made two tours through Mexico , where they performed again in 2004. In Latin America (especially Mexico) they are much better known than in Germany itself.

Haggard is a project by singer, songwriter and guitarist Asis Nasseri, who composed all the songs - with the exception of the short classical pieces by Robert von Greding. He has gathered around twenty musicians who support him in the studio and live. The instrumentation consists on the one hand of the usual components of a rock band, namely lead guitar , rhythm guitar , electric bass and drums , on the other hand of string instruments ( violins , viola , cello , double bass ), wind instruments ( flute , clarinet , oboe , horn ) and keyboard instruments ( Organ , piano , harpsichord ). Medieval instruments include the crumhorn , harp and timpani .

The singing is extremely versatile. Classically trained singers in all registers from soprano to bass join the sung, spoken and metal-typical growled vocal lines of Asis Nasseri . The band has also worked with the Schalleluja Chamber Choir and the New Moscow Radio Choir. Another specialty is the preference for multilingual singing. The albums contain English, French, Swedish, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Latin passages.

After a new album, which deals with the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm , was originally announced for the beginning of 2012, the concept album Grimm has since been postponed without a specific new date.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Awaking The Centuries
  DE 64 02/21/2000 (1 week)
Eppur Si Muove
  DE 47 05/10/2004 (2 weeks)
Tales of Ithiria
  DE 37 09/15/2008 (3 weeks)
  CH 89 09/14/2008 (1 week)

Albums

  • 1997: And Thou Shalt Trust… The Seer ( concept album on Nostradamus )
  • 2000: Awaking the Centuries (concept album on Nostradamus, following And Thou Shalt Trust… The Seer )
  • 2001: Awaking the Gods, Live in Mexico ( live album )
  • 2004: Eppur Si Muove (concept album about Galileo Galilei )
  • 2008: Tales of Ithiria (concept album about the fantasy world of Ithiria )
  • 2009: Era Divina (CD + DVD box limited to 999 copies, including the digitally remastered album And Thou Shalt Trust… The Seer and the documentary Haggard Unlive )

Demos

  • 1992: Introduction (promo tape)
  • 1993: Progressive , EP (re-released as Limited Edition in 2008)
  • 1995: Once upon a December's Dawn (promo tape)
  • 1996: And Thou Shalt Trust… The Seer (promo tape)

Video albums

  • 1998: In A Pale Moon's Shadow ( VHS )
  • 2001: Live in Mexico ( DVD )
  • 2009: Haggard Unlive (DVD of the Era Divina box, contains documentation on the band's 20-year history, live videos and photo galleries)

Web links

Commons : Haggard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haggard in the German album charts. musicline.de; Retrieved March 15, 2009
  2. ↑ Haggard in the Swiss hit parade. hitparade.ch; Retrieved March 15, 2009