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Neoclassical metal

Index Neoclassical metal

Neoclassical metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is heavily influenced by classical music and usually features very technical playing,Stephan Forté, "Metal néoclassique" in Guitarist Magazine Pedago, Hors Série #29, "Les secrets du metal- Etudes de Style", March 2009, pp.14–15. [1]

91 relations: Adagio (band), Antonio Vivaldi, Arpeggio, Artension, Ashgate Publishing, At Vance, Avant-garde metal, Ayreon, Baroque music, Bass guitar, Blues rock, Cacophony (band), Children of Bodom, Chris Impellitteri, Classical music, Classical period (music), Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Concerto Moon, Dark Moor, David Chastain, Deep Purple, Diminished seventh chord, Drum kit, Electric guitar, Epica (band), Europe, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Galneryus, George Frideric Handel, Hard rock, Heavenly (French band), Heavy metal music, Herman Li, Jason Becker, Joey Tafolla, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jon Lord, Joshua (band), Keith Emerson, Keyboard instrument, Magic Kingdom (band), Marty Friedman, Mastercastle, Mekong Delta (band), Michael Angelo Batio, Mike Varney, Modernism (music), Narnia (band), Necrophagist, Neoclassicism (music), ..., Niccolò Paganini, Nightwish, North America, Obscura (band), Orchestra, Paul Gilbert, Pentatonic scale, Pier Gonella, Power metal, Progressive metal, Progressive rock, Protest the Hero, Rainbow (rock band), Randy Rhoads, Rata Blanca, Rhapsody of Fire, Ritchie Blackmore, Rock music, Romantic music, Shrapnel Records, Shred guitar, Singing, Sonata Arctica, Sound Horizon, Speed metal, Stéphan Forté, Stratovarius, Symphonic metal, Symphony X, The Human Abstract (band), Time Requiem, Timo Tolkki, Tony MacAlpine, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Uli Jon Roth, Versailles (band), Vinnie Moore, Vitalij Kuprij, Warmen, Wolf Hoffmann, Yngwie Malmsteen. Expand index (41 more) »

Adagio (band)

Adagio is a French progressive metal band formed in 2000 by guitarist Stéphan Forté.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric.

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Arpeggio

A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes.

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Artension

Artension is a North American neoclassical progressive metal band, founded in 1993 by keyboardist Vitalij Kuprij.

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Ashgate Publishing

Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom).

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At Vance

At Vance is a German neoclassical/power metal band.

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Avant-garde metal

Avant-garde metal (or experimental metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal music loosely defined by use of experimentation and innovative, avant-garde elements, including non-standard and unconventional sounds, instruments, song structures, playing styles, and vocal techniques.

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Ayreon

Ayreon is a musical project by Dutch songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer Arjen Anthony Lucassen.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock.

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Cacophony (band)

Cacophony was an American heavy metal band formed in 1986 by guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker, and signed to Shrapnel Records.

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Children of Bodom

Children of Bodom is a Finnish extreme metal band from Espoo.

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Chris Impellitteri

Chris Impellitteri (born September 25, 1964) is the lead guitarist and founder of the heavy metal band Impellitteri.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Classical period (music)

The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1730 to 1820, associated with the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

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Concerto for Group and Orchestra

The Concerto for Group and Orchestra is a concerto composed by Jon Lord, with lyrics written by Ian Gillan.

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Concerto Moon

is a Japanese Neoclassical metal / Power metal band formed in 1996 and led by guitarist Norifumi Shima.

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Dark Moor

Dark Moor is a Spanish neoclassical metal and symphonic power metal band from Madrid.

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David Chastain

David T. Chastain (born August 31, 1963) is an American guitarist and owner of Leviathan Records and Diginet Music.

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Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968.

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Diminished seventh chord

The diminished seventh chord is commonly used in the harmony of both Western classical music and also in jazz and popular music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Epica (band)

Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band, founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen after his departure from After Forever.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fleshgod Apocalypse

Fleshgod Apocalypse is an Italian death metal band.

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Galneryus

is a Japanese power metal band, formed in Osaka in 2001 by guitarist Syu and vocalist Yama-B. Galneryus Artist Profile Retrieved Jan 23, 2011 ガルネリウス Biography Retrieved January 23, 2011 Originally the only official members, the two utilized several support musicians until bassist Tsui, keyboardist Yuhki, and drummer Jun-ichi officially joined for the release of their debut album in 2003.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Heavenly (French band)

Heavenly, a power metal band based in Marseille, France, was formed in 1993 in Paris by vocalist Benjamin Sotto and drummer Max Pilo, originally as a cover band under the name of Satan's Lawyer.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Herman Li

Herman Li (born 3 October 1976) is a British Chinese musician.

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Jason Becker

Jason Eli Becker (born July 22, 1969) is an American heavy metal guitarist and composer.

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Joey Tafolla

Joey Tafolla (born May 30, 1962) is an American guitarist.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Jon Lord

John Douglas Lord (9 June 194116 July 2012) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple, as well as Whitesnake, Paice Ashton Lord, The Artwoods, and The Flower Pot Men.

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Joshua (band)

Joshua is a Christian metal band that formed in 1980.

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Keith Emerson

Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English musician and composer.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Magic Kingdom (band)

Magic Kingdom is a power metal band from Belgium formed in 1998 by Belgian guitarist Dushan Petrossi.

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Marty Friedman

Martin Adam "Marty" Friedman (born December 8, 1962) is an American guitarist, known for his tenure as the lead guitarist for heavy metal band Megadeth which spanned nearly the full decade of the 1990s.

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Mastercastle

Mastercastle is a heavy metal band formed in 2008 in Italy by the guitar player Pier Gonella and the singer Giorgia Gueglio.

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Mekong Delta (band)

Mekong Delta is a German technical thrash metal band, formed in 1985.

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Michael Angelo Batio

Michael Angelo Batio (born February 23, 1956), also known as Mike Batio or MAB, is an American heavy metal guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois.

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Mike Varney

Mike Varney is an American musician, record producer, music publisher and impresario.

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Modernism (music)

In music, modernism is a philosophical and aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.

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Narnia (band)

Narnia is a Christian neoclassical progressive power metal band founded by guitarist Carl Johan Grimmark and singer Christian Liljegren.

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Necrophagist

Necrophagist was a German technical death metal band, founded and fronted by guitarist and vocalist Muhammed Suiçmez.

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Neoclassicism (music)

Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the interwar period, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint.

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Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer.

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Nightwish

Nightwish are a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Obscura (band)

Obscura are a German technical death metal band from Landshut.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Paul Gilbert

Paul Brandon Gilbert (born November 6, 1966), is an American hard rock/heavy metal guitarist.

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Pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

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Pier Gonella

Pier Gonella (born Pierangelo Gonella) is an Italian guitarist and founding member of the heavy metal band Mastercastle and the black metal band Necrodeath.

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Power metal

Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context.

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Progressive metal

Progressive metal (sometimes known as prog metal or technical metal) is a fusion genre melding heavy metal and progressive rock which combines the loud "aggression".

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Protest the Hero

Protest the Hero is a Canadian progressive metal band from Whitby, Ontario.

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Rainbow (rock band)

Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) is a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, active from 1975 until 1984, 1993 until 1997, and 2015 until present.

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Randy Rhoads

Randall William Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne.

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Rata Blanca

Rata Blanca (White Rat in English) is a heavy metal band from Argentina, formed in 1986.

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Rhapsody of Fire

Rhapsody of Fire (formerly known as Rhapsody) is an Italian symphonic power metal band created by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli, widely seen as a pioneer of the symphonic power metal subgenre.

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Ritchie Blackmore

Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist and songwriter.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a period of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.

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Shrapnel Records

Shrapnel Records is a guitar-oriented record label started in 1980 by record producer Mike Varney.

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Shred guitar

Shred guitar or shredding is a virtuoso lead guitar solo playing style for the guitar, based on various advanced and complex playing techniques, particularly rapid passages and advanced performance effects.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, Finland.

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Sound Horizon

Sound Horizon is a Japanese musical group with composer Revo (ja) as the leader.

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Speed metal

Speed metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) roots.

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Stéphan Forté

Stéphan Forté is a musician, whose main project is that of being the guitarist of the progressive neoclassical metal band Adagio.

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Stratovarius

Stratovarius is a Finnish power metal band that formed in 1984.

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Symphonic metal

Symphonic metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music which combines the heavy drums and guitars of metal with different elements of orchestral classical music, such as symphonic instruments, choirs and sometimes a full orchestra.

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Symphony X

Symphony X is an American progressive metal band from Middletown, New Jersey.

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The Human Abstract (band)

The Human Abstract is an American metalcore band from Los Angeles, California.

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Time Requiem

Time Requiem is a Swedish neoclassical, melodic power metal band created by Richard Andersson in 2001.

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Timo Tolkki

Timo Tapio Tolkki (born 3 March 1966) is a Finnish musician best known as the former guitarist, songwriter and producer of the power metal band Stratovarius.

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Tony MacAlpine

Tony MacAlpine (born August 29, 1960) is an American musician and composer.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American rock band founded around 1993 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team.

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Uli Jon Roth

Uli Jon Roth (born Ulrich Roth, 18 December 1954) is a German guitarist, who became famous as Scorpions' lead guitarist, and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre.

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Versailles (band)

Versailles (known as Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet- in the United States) is a Japanese visual kei metal band formed in 2007 by vocalist Kamijo and guitarist Hizaki.

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Vinnie Moore

Vincent "Vinnie" Moore (born April 14, 1964) is an American guitarist and a member of the British hard rock band UFO.

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Vitalij Kuprij

Vitalij Kuprij (Віталій Купрій; born July 7, 1974) is a Ukrainian-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and keyboardist for Ring of Fire and Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

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Warmen

Warmen is a Finnish metal band assembled by keyboard player Janne Viljami Wirman - also known as Warman.

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Wolf Hoffmann

Wolf Hoffmann (born 10 December 1959) is a German guitarist, primarily known as guitarist in the German heavy metal band Accept since 1976.

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Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck; 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist and bandleader.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_metal

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