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Biography
For|the American country music artist|Merle Haggardpp-move-indef|small=yesInfobox musical artist | name = Haggard| image = Haggard at Global East Rock Festival 2010 (1).jpg| caption = Haggard at Global East Rock Festival|Global East Rock Festival 2010 | image_size = 250 | background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Munich , Bavaria , Germany| instrument =| genre = Symphonic death metal Symphonic metal Doom metal Neo-Medieval music Technical death metal (demos)| occupation =| years_active = 1991–present| label =| associated_acts =| website = http://www.haggard.de www.haggard.de| current_members = Asis Nasseri Susanne Ehlers Veronika Kramheller Fiffi Fuhrmann Andreas Peschke Florian Bartl Jonathan Whynot Ivica Percinlie Steffi Hertz Johannes Schleiermacher Claudio Quarta Hans Wolf Luz Marsen| past_members =| notable_instruments = Haggard is a Germany|German symphonic metal musical group founded in 1991. The group combines classical music and early music with doom metal .
Background
Haggard was founded in 1991 and originally played death metal .cite web|url=allmusic|id=p541455|pure_url=yes |title=Haggard Biography |first=Chris |last=True |work= Allmusic |accessdate=2011-04-04 They changed their musical style after their first Demo (music)|demo tape, Introduction in 1992, becoming a band with symphonic melodies and classical instruments but folk themes. The album And Thou Shalt Trust... the Seer marked their breakthrough in 1997. After their second album Awaking the Centuries (the life of the prophet Nostradamus), they toured through Mexico twice. In 2004, they released their third album Eppur Si Muove which is about the life of Italy|Italian scholar , Galileo Galilei , sentenced to house arrest for heresy by the Catholic Church for supporting Nicolaus Copernicus|Copernicus' claim that the Earth revolved around the sun.
Just before their album Awaking The Centuries was released, the group had its highest number of musicians at 21. All their songs are written by vocalist and guitarist , Asis Nasseri .
The fourth album, Tales of Ithiria , was released in 2008 and is based on a fantasy story.
In 2010, the band had its first concert along with a symphonic orchestra. Haggard played together with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra|philharmonic orchestra of Plovdiv in the Bulgaria n city of Plovdiv on April 19, 2010.
The next album will be about the tales of the brothers Grimm .
Discography
Demos
Introduction (demo)|Introduction (1992)
Progressive (album)|Progressive (1994)
'' Once... Upon A December's Dawn (1995)
Studio albums
Year
Title
Peak positions
GER cite web
SWI cite web
1997
And Thou Shalt Trust... the Seer
>—
>—
2000
Awaking the Centuries
>64
>—
2004
Eppur Si Muove
>47
>—
2008
Tales of Ithiria
>37
>89
Live
Awaking the Gods: Live In Mexico (2001)
DVD's and videos
''In A Pale Moon's Shadow) (1998)
Awaking the Gods: Live In Mexico ( DVD / VHS ) (2001)
Members
Asis Nasseri Susanne Ehlers Veronika Kramheller Manuela Kraller Fiffi Fuhrmann Giacomo Astorri Jonathan Whynot Michael Stapf Andreas Fuchs Linda Antonetti Ivica Kramheller Steffi Hertz Johannes Schleiermacher Patrizia Krug Claudio Quarta Hans Wolf Ingrid Nietzer Luz Marsen Michael Schumm -->
Current members
Asis Nasseri – vocals , guitar (1991–present)
Susanne Ehlers – soprano vocals
Veronika Kramheller – soprano vocals
Giacomo Astorri - Bass (guitar)|bass
Fiffi Fuhrmann – tenor vocals , bass
Jonathan Whynot - guitar
Michael Stapf - violin
Ivica Kramheller – double bass
Andreas Fuchs – French horn , flute , percussion , drums
Steffi Hertz – viola
Johannes Schleiermacher – cello
Patrizia Krug - cello
Claudio Quarta – guitar
Hans Wolf – piano , Keyboard instrument|keyboards
Ingrid Nietzer - piano , Keyboard instrument|keyboards
In addition to the 16 band members, more than 10 guest artists and musicians were involved in the making of the album, Eppur Si Muove .
References
Reflist
External links
Commons category|Haggard
http://www.haggard.de Haggard - official website
MySpace|haggard2007|Haggard
http://www.drakkar.de/de/index.php? bandid=1 Drakkar Entertainment - official website
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