Christopher lee heavy metal album charlemagne biography
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Christopher lee heavy metal album charlemagne biography
Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross
2010 studio album by Christopher Lee
Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross is a symphonic metalconcept album by actor and singer Christopher Lee.
It was released on 15 March 2010. This was Lee's first full-length album in the genre, having previously worked with such bands as Rhapsody of Fire and Manowar.
It tells the story of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, to whom Lee can trace his ancestry.
Geneticists have pointed out however that virtually everyone of European ancestry is directly descended from Charlemagne,[1] and Scott Hershberger writing for Scientific American stated that Lee’s enthusiasm for his link to Charlemagne “may have been a tad excessive”.[2]
The album's promotional MySpace page garnered over 20 million hits from around the world.[citation needed] The album features two bands and a number of guest vocalists playing the different roles in the story.
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