Vivaldi Metal Project | 2nd All-Star Studio Album

Dear friends, our crowd-funding campaign page for our NEW album is OFFICIALLY LIVE! ✔

We invite you to join us as we begin the creation of our NEW All-Star album, which will feature a larger cast of world-class musicians than ever before!🌟

Throughout the campaign we will give you the opportunity to meet many of our artists, as we post weekly sneak-peek videos and exclusive previews from the making of our new album!✨

As with our previous record, this new album will showcase many amazing instrumentalists, vocalists, choirs, and orchestras from all across the globe. We are so excited to share this musical journey with you, and we want to thank you for your continued support; it truly means everything! ❤

- Vivaldi Metal Project

(© 2018 - photo by Zdravka Zlateva)

~ NEW ALBUM ~

The new Vivaldi Metal Project album will not only feature classical masterworks by Vivaldi, but the works of other great composers such as Chopin, Mozart, Bach, Fauré, Schubert, Saint-Saens, Dvorak, Beethoven, Albinoni, Paganini, and more.

While based on classical themes, these songs will be largely composed of original material, representative of Vivaldi Metal Project’s symphonic-metal style.

As on the band’s previous album "The Four Seasons", all songs will include vocalists, band, orchestra and choir, as well as a featured cast of internationally-recognized metal and classical artists.

CONCEPT

The band's first record revolved around the concept of the various "seasons" of the human life - from birth to death. As a continuation of the last, this new album will explore the "seasons" of our emotional experience as human beings - from joys to sorrows and from frailty to deep strength. Each song creates a rich musical tapestry expressing the “colours” of raw human emotion, while weaving a common thread throughout the album.

© 2018 - photo by Georgi Vassilev

~ EXCLUSIVE PERKS! ~

~ OVERVIEW ~

The Vivaldi Metal Project is a symphonic-metal group conceived and produced by Italian keyboard player, composer and producer Mistheria

(solo artist, Bruce Dickinson, RoyZ, Rob Rock, Mark Boals, Artlantica, Tower of Babel)

Back in 2013, Mistheria started thinking about making a metal version of “The Four Seasons”, a masterpiece that he loved and kept listening to since his childhood. Mistheria started to play and record all the movements on the piano but then felt that a parallel symphonic-metal version would have been the perfect continuation.

Mistheria made the “innovative” choice – never done so far – to add lyrics and singers to “The Four Seasons” which, as composed by Vivaldi, is an instrumental work. For this important task, he invited Douglas R. Docker who perfectly translated the producer’s concept into brilliant lyrics. Additional lyrics were written by Mistheria, Rob Rock and Lance King.

A cast of 10 awesome arrangers joined Mistheria creating epic and memorable music, combining a standard metal band lineup with strings, orchestra and choir:
Douglas R. Docker, Francesco Dall’O’, Frank Caruso, Gabriels, Keiko Kumagai, Nicolas Waldo, Pawel Penksa, Tomas Varnagiris, Yannis Androulakakis, Zhivko Koev.

The cast furthermore includes performances by Mark Boals (Malmsteen, Royal Hunt), Fabio Lione (Rhapsody of Fire, Angra), Edu Falaschi (Almah), Rob Rock (Impellitteri), Mike Lepond (SymhonyX), Dani Löble (Helloween), Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation), Mark Cross (Firewind, Scorpions), Steve Di Giorgio (Testament), Rolf Pilve (Stratovarius), Victor Smolski (Rage, Almanac), Ruben Israel (Delain), John Macaluso (ARK), Marco Sfogli (James Labrie), Chris Caffery (Savatage), Mark Wood (Trans Siberian Orchestra), Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork), Atma Anur (Tony MacAlpine), Vitalij Kuprij, Anna Portalupi (Tarja Turunen), Sean Tibbetts (Kamelot), Martijn Peters (Stream of Passion) and many more.

Moreover, the project features the “Sinfonietta Consonus Symphonic Orchestra” (Poland), the “Academic Choir Angel Manolov” (Bulgaria), the “Chamber Choir Ivan Filipovic” (Croatia) and the “Rock Academy Choir” (Croatia). It took more than 2 years of intensive non-stop hard work to complete the album.

Mixed and mastered by Ivan Moni Bidin at “Artesonika Recording Studio in Italy.

(© 2018 - photo by Bianchi fotografi)

Live band line-up 2018 (left to right):
Mark Cross, Ida Elena, Dr. Viossy, Dimitar Belchev, Leo Porcheddu, Nicoletta Rosellini, Mistheria, Tsena Stefanova, Abigail Stahlschmidt, Angel Wolf-Black, Dino Fiorenza, Quentin Cornet.

~ THE FOUR SEASONS ~

The Vivaldi Metal Project’s debut album “The Four Seasons” (released by Pride & Joy Music in 2016) is a symphonic-metal opera based on Vivaldi’s Baroque masterwork of the same name. The album itself features over 130 vocal and instrumental artists from both metal and classical backgrounds, an orchestra, a string quartet, and three choirs from around the world.

(© 2018 - photo by Bianchi fotografi)

"The Four Seasons" album featured artists include members of such renowned bands as: Rhapsody of Fire, Angra, Royal Hunt, Bruce Dickinson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Symphony X, Helloween, Within Temptation, Firewind, Testament, Stratovarius, Delain, James LaBrie, Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Serenity, Soilwork, Stream of Passion, Kamelot and many more.

(© 2018 - photo by Bianchi fotografi)

Vivaldi Metal Project made live debut in 2018:

Kitee (Finland) - Unplugged World Premiere (July 15th, 2018)
Plovdiv (Bulgaria) - Electric World Premiere (September 23rd, 2018)
Avezzano (Italy) - Electric Italian Premiere (October 31st, 2018

This impressive roster of artists undoubtedly makes
Vivaldi Metal Project one of the largest all-star projects ever!

(© 2018 - photo by Zdravka Zlateva)

~ REVIEWS ~

‘Powerful, Complex, Evocative, Dark, Extraordinary, Engaging, Epic, Ancient In Its Modernity, Epochal, Colossal, Timeless…’
(Heavy Metal webzine)

'Fans of classical, progressive, symphonic or even metal in general will find this to be incredibly appealing.'
(Mosh Pit Report, UK)

'When baroque music meets heavy metal and the match is perfect.'
(My Global Mind, Brazil)

'This is symphonic concept power metal of the most magnificent scope'
(Planet Mosh, UK)

'This new version of „The Four Seasons“ is a magnum opus and will become an instant classic.'
(Radio Barbarossa, Germany)

'A magnificent release. Ingenious!"'
(Metal Factory, Switzerland)

'A perfect symbiosis of Classical Music and Modernism.'
(Crossfire, Germany)

(© 2013 - Official artwork and logo by Henrik Ringbert)

~ INFO ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN ~

REWARDS

All rewards will be shipped at the end of the album production (TBA in 2020).
You will be kept up to date through the campaign on this platform (check the section "Updates"), our website and all our social networks.

SHIPPING

All physical rewards include shipping cost (worldwide).

CONTACTS

For any questions about the campaign, perks, shipping, etc. please feel free to send us a message: [email protected]