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METALIUM BIOGRAPHY
Metalium is a power metal band from Hamburg, Germany. Their style of music is that of the traditional power metal sound which was pioneered in Hamburg by bands such as Helloween and Blind Guardian.
Metalium released their first album, Millennium Metal: Chapter One in 1999. The original lineup included members of Savatage and Yngwie Malmsteen. State of Triumph: Chapter Two followed in 2000. Then came Hero Nation: Chapter Three in 2002, As One: Chapter Four in 2004, and Demons of Insanity: Chapter Five in 2005. The story of Metalian is continued in Nothing to Undo: Chapter VI, out in 2007.
METALIUM GENRES
Power/Speed Metal
METALIUM LYRICAL THEMES
Epic battles
METALIUM ORIGIN
Germany (Hamburg), formed in 1998
METALIUM CURRENT RECORD LABEL
Massacre Records
METALIUM STATUS
Active
METALIUM CURRENT LINE-UP
Henning Basse - Vocals (Errantry, Brainstorm)
Matthias Lange - Guitars (guest in Shock Machine)
Lars Ratz - Bass (Velvet Viper, Viva, Zed Yago, Francis Soto [Guest])
Michael Ehré - Drums (Saeko, Pryer)
METALIUM PREVIOUS LINE-UP
Chris Caffery - guitars (also in Savatage, Doctor Butcher, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, John West, guest for Circle II Circle and Sun Red Sun)
Mike Terrana - drums (Savage Circus, Artension, Axel Rudi Pell, Rage (Ger), Roland Grapow, Squealer (Ger), Victor Smolski, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Kiko Loureiro, John West, Empire (Ger), Gamma Ray, Masterplan, Hanover Fist, ex session for Not Fragile)
Jack Frost - guitars (Frost Bite, Seven Witches, Bird of Prey, ex-Marshall Law, ex-Savatage, Speeed, The Bronx Casket Co., Jack Frost (US), John Macaluso & Union Radio)
Mark Cross - drums (Helloween, Winters Bane, At Vance, Nightfall (Grc), God's Army, The Supremacy, Casus Belli (Grc) (guest), Firewind)
Guests
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Jutta Weinhold - guest vocals on ``State Of Triumph: Chapter Two`` (ex-Zed Yago, Velvet Viper)
Ken Hensley - keyboards on ``Hero Nation: Chapter Three`` (Uriah Heep)
Tom Nauman - guitars (Primal Fear, Sinner (Ger)) (session guitars on State Of Triumph - Chapter II)
Gabriele Palermo - guitars/keyboards (Tragedian)
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