| Haggard | |
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Haggard at Global East Rock Festival 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Genres | Symphonic death metal Symphonic metal Doom metal Neo-Medieval music Technical death metal (demos) |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Website | www.haggard.de |
| 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 |
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Haggard is a German symphonic metal musical group founded in 1991. The group combines classical music and early music with doom metal.
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Haggard was founded in 1991 and originally played death metal.[1] They changed their musical style after their first 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 Italian scholar, Galileo Galilei, sentenced to house arrest for heresy by the Catholic Church for supporting 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 philharmonic orchestra of Plovdiv in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv on April 19, 2010.
The next album will be about the tales of the brothers Grimm.
| Year | Title | Peak positions | ||
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| GER[2] | SWI[3] | |||
| 1997 | And Thou Shalt Trust... the Seer | — | — | |
| 2000 | Awaking the Centuries | 64 | — | |
| 2004 | Eppur Si Muove | 47 | — | |
| 2008 | Tales of Ithiria | 37 | 89 | |
| 2012 | Grimm | — | — | |
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.