Year : 2020
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal
Country : Finland
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 113 mb
Bio:
Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala (born 14 January 1966) is a Finnish heavy metal vocalist, bassist and songwriter. Internationally, he is most known as the current bassist, male vocalist and secondary composer to Tuomas Holopainen, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish.He is also the vocalist and bassist as well as composer and lyricist for the heavy metal band Tarot.He is also a member of the supergroup Northern Kings, and portrayed one of the main characters in Ayreon's 2013 album The Theory of Everything.Marco Hietala was born in Tervo, and is the youngest child of the Hietala family. Hietala lived in Tervo until the age of 15, after which he moved to Kuopio to study classical guitar, vocals and musical theory in high school. In 1984, he and his brother, Zachary Hietala, formed heavy metal band Tarot under the name Purgatory. In 1986, Tarot received a deal for their first album and went on tour.[3] Before becoming a full-time musician, he worked as a live and studio sound engineer.Hietala joined Nightwish in 2001 when Tuomas Holopainen and the band's manager called him and said that there would be a place in the band for a vocalist and a bass player.Century Child was his first Nightwish album, following the departure of previous bassist Sami Vänskä.[6] He was a prominent guest musician in Delain, a project involving many members of the gothic and symphonic metal community.He also participated in the recording of Invitation, by Altaria, providing backing vocals.Hietala has also been part of the bands Sinergy and Northern Kings.Upon his arrival to Nightwish, several songs were written to contain duets with then Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen, allowing songwriter and band leader Tuomas Holopainen to take advantage of Hietala's distinctive raucous voice to add a new dimension to the band. A famous example is Nightwish's cover of "The Phantom of the Opera," from the album "Century Child."During Nightwish's shows, Turunen would take a break halfway through the set. Before Hietala joined the band, the band would perform an instrumental song during this time. After Hietala joined the band, they performed covers of well-known songs, with Hietala singing the lead vocal part in this break. The band has performed Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train", W.A.S.P.'s "Wild Child", Dio's "Don't Talk to Strangers", Megadeth's "Symphony of Destruction" and Pink Floyd's "High Hopes". Some of these songs have been put up for sale as well on various Nightwish album releases. Following Turunen's departure from Nightwish, Hietala was much more involved with the production of Dark Passion Play, which was released in September 2007. He sang some songs, completely, and wrote the music for the song "The Islander", on which he also plays acoustic guitar instead of bass. Hietala is also credited alongside Holopainen for co-writing the song "The Crow, the Owl and the Dove" from Nightwish's 2011 album, Imaginaerum.In Delain, Hietala played bass for the album Lucidity and was also the main male vocalist on the album with featured vocals on the song The Gathering. He is also featured as vocalist in two of the songs on Delain's second album April Rain and two songs from Delain's fourth album The Human Contradiction.In March 2009, Hietala joined the band Sapattivuosi. They cover Black Sabbath songs in Finnish.In this band, however, Hietala does not play bass; he only performs vocals.On 1 April 2010 it was said that Hietala would leave the band to concentrate on a choir career. This was identified as an April Fool's joke, but was also a reference to his participation in Kuorosota (the localized Finnish version of Clash of the Choirs) in 2010. Hietala was the master of the Kuopio choir in the program's second season. He came second in the contest, losing in the finals to the Joensuu choir, headed by pop rock singer Ilkka Alanko. Tarot's single "I Walk Forever," from the Gravity of Light album, was performed for the first time by Marco, Tomi Salmela and the Kuopio choir during Kuorosota 2010; other songs performed included "The Phantom of the Opera," which Hietala has covered with Nightwish as well.In June 2010, Hietala joined the heavy metal supergroup HAIL! on two occasions, performing Black Sabbath's Neon Knights with Ripper Owens, Andreas Kisser, James LoMenzo and Paul Bostaph at two of their shows in Finland.On 14 August 2013 Hietala was the first singer to be confirmed by Arjen Lucassen to guest on Ayreon's new album The Theory of Everything.In November 2018, Hietala confirmed he will release his first solo album in the early spring of 2019. He releases the album under his birthname "Marko Hietala" and will be using the name also in his other projects in the future.
Album:
Finnish singer/bassist Marko Hietala announces his signing with Nuclear Blast for the English version of his solo album "Pyre Of The Black Heart". Hietala himself describes the style of the upcoming release as 'hard prog'.About the goal behing his solo album, Marko Hietala comments: "Well, let's put it this way: Nightwish is without any doubt my main band and thanks to income from that direction, I don't have to be that commercially aware ... What I mean, is that when I was coming up with the musical thoughts for this solo record, I was able to do simply anything without limits. So if I had a goal, it was to not have any kind of limits, but to prepare an unpredictable, spontaneous, adventurous, ferocious and intimate solo record. And now when I am listening to the final album by myself, I can say with my hand on my heart that I - or rather us - pulled it off ... The record is a really diverse musical rollercoaster ride that takes eager listeners into a world of strong emotions and deep feelings!"
Line Up:
Marko Hietala / vocals, bass - See also: Nightwish, Raskasta Joulua, Tarot, ex-Tuska20, Marko Hietala, Sapattivuosi, ex-Conquest, ex-Delain (live), ex-Sinergy, ex-Northern Kings
Tuomas Wäinölä / guitars
Vili Oillila / keyboards
Anssi Nykänen / drums
Tracklist:
01. Stones
02. The Voice Of My Father
03. Star, Sand And Shadow
04. Dead God's Son
05. For You
06. I Am The Way
07. Runner Of The Railways
08. Death March For Freedom
09. I Dream
10. Truth Shall Set You Free
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