Haggard (band)

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Haggard

Background information
Origin	Germany
Genre(s)	Symphonic metal Folk Metal Neo-classical Metal Mittelalter-Rock Progressive Rock
Years active	1991 - Present
Label(s)	Drakkar Entertainment
Members
Asis Nasseri Luz Marsen Claudio Michael Stapf Susanne Steffi Hertz Veronika Kramheller Hans Wolf Ivica Percinlie Fiffi Fuhrmann Florian Schnellinger Judith Marschall Johannes Schleiermacher Mark Pendry Michael Schumm Doro

Haggard is a German symphonic metal band founded in 1991. Haggard combines folk, classical, renaissance and medieval music with modern doom metal.

1 Band history
2 Discography
3 Band members
- 3.1 Current members
4 External links
- 4.1 Official sites
- 4.2 Haggard at online databases

[edit] Band history

The band started playing death metal in 1991. They then changed their style after their first demo tape Introduction in 1992, becoming a band with symphonic melodies and classical instruments but folk themes and attitude, by producing two albums dealing with the seer Michel de Notredame in the dark days of The Black Plague in Europe. The album And Thou Shalt Trust... the Seer marked their breakthrough in 1997. After their second album Awaking the Centuries, they toured through Mexico twice. They are quite famous and well known in South America, almost more so than in Germany. In 2004 they released their third album Eppur Si Muove which is about the life of Italian scholar Galileo Galilei, sentenced to house arrest for heresy by the Church for supporting Copernicus' claim that the Earth revolved around the sun.

Just before their album Awaking The Centuries the band had its highest number of musicians at 21. Currently the band consists of 16 musicians. All their songs are written by vocalist and guitarist Asis Nasseri.

Currently, they are working on a fourth album, called Tales of Ithiria this time not based on a historical figure but the telling of a fantasy story, according to an interview given by Asis to FolkMetal.de in August 2005 [1]. Tales of Ithiria is scheduled for release the 29th of June 2007.