Haggard

Haggard was founded in 1991 in Germany. Haggard combines classical, renaissance, and medieval music with death-doom metal. The band started out playing death metal. They changed their style after their first demo tape Introduction in 1992, became a classical/medieval/metal band and produced 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; the theme of which is about the life of the famous Italian scholar Galileo Galilei. Just before their album Awaking the Centuries the band had its highest number of musicians at 21. Currently the ensemble consists of 16 musicians. All their songs are written by vocalist and guitarist Asis Nasseri. Current Musicians: Asis Nasseri - Guitars / Vocals Luz Marsen - Drums Claudio Quarta - Guitars Giacomo Astorri - Bass Guitar Michael Stapf - Violino Ally Storch - Violino Steffi Hertz - Viola Patricia Krug - Violoncello Johannes Schleiermacher - Violoncello Ivica Kramheller - Contrabass Hans Wolf - Piano / Cembalo / Church Organ Su Ehlers - Soprano Manuela Kraller - Soprano Veronika Kramheller - Soprano Fiffi Fuhrmann - Tenore Andreas Fuchs - Horn Linda Antonetti - Oboe / Flauto Michael Schumm - Timpani / Percussion Ingrid Nietzer - Piano / Cembalo / Church Organ www.haggard.de www.myspace.com/haggard2007