Artist: Luca Turilli
Genre(s):
Metal: Power
Rock
Metal: Progressive
Rock: Sympho
Discography:
The Infinite Wonders of Creation
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
The Ancient Forest Of Elves
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
King Of The Nordic Twilight
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
The Ancient Forest Of Elves (Single)
Year:
Tracks: 3
Prophet Of The Last Eclipse
Year:
Tracks: 12
Demonheart
Year:
Tracks: 6
Italian profound metal guitarist Luca Turilli is quite an unusual person. Born in Trieste, Italy on March 5, 1972, Turilli is right in the Gen-X demographic but is wholly untouched by alternate metal trends of ‘90s and 2000s. Turilli's specialness is ‘70s/'80s-style phantasy alloy with a warm progressive rock influence; bands like Iron Maiden, Queensrÿche and Savatage ar primary influences, and he hasn't hesitated to incorporate elements of Rush, Yes and Genesis as well as European classic music. Turilli's fantasy-based lyrics--which prosper on dungeons-and-dragons imagery--are right out of the Jimmie Carter and Ronald Reagan long time. Clearly, Turilli is a Gen-X-er with identical Baby Boomer tastes--and he does all this without the least scrap of irony. The guitar player comes across as person wHO lives and breathes definitive phantasy metallic element and progressive rock; his geezerhood puts him in metal's Ministry/Soundgarden/Monster Magnet demographic, but his rock tastes ar pure Baby Boomer all the means. Turilli, however, has never listened to rock exclusively. His father was a classic cellist, which explains wherefore he grew up hearing to European classic music extensively. Turilli--who has much cited Frédéric Chopin as his ducky classic composer simply is besides a major admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach, Niccoló Paganini and Antonio Vivaldi--studied classic flute and piano as a kid and didn't seriously report the guitar until he was 16. Turilli was 21 when he formed the lot Thundercross in 1993, and he co-founded the Italian metal turnout Rhapsody with keyboardist Alex Staropoli around 1996. Sporting a look and a sound that were correct out the ‘70s and ‘80s, Rhapsody (non to be at sea with a fresh age playact that was active in the ‘90s) was completely retro. Although non as good known in the United States as they ar in Europe, Rhapsody fared well in European markets with Legendary Tales in 1997, Symphony of Enchanted Lands in 1998, Dawn of Victory in 2000, Rain of a Thousand Flames in 2001 and Power of the Dragon Flame in 2002. Turilli launched his solo life history with 1999's King of the Nordic Twilight, merely recording as a solo artist didn't bastardly the end of Rhapsody--from 1999 on, he functioned as both a solo artist and Rhapsody's leader. And whether the guitarist was recording with Rhapsody or by himself, his success in Europe demonstrated that thither was still an hearing for ‘70s/'80s-style fantasy metal. Many of the European headbangers world Health Organization bought Rhapsody's albums and Turilli's solo projects in the late ‘90s and other 2000s were in their teens and twenties, and they had no problem getting into the sort of metal that their parents listened to back in the twenty-four hour period. Turilli (world Health Organization at present lives in Lyon, France) did his section to show European kids that metallic element didn't start with Ministry, Korn, Pantera, Soundgarden or even Metallica (as great as those bands ar).Turilli continued to record as a solo creative person in 2002, when he recorded Prophet of the Last Eclipse for Limp Music Products.
