Khallice
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Khallice is a Brazil
ian progressive metal
act in founded in 1994. The band's founder Marcelo Barbosa
(guitars) is the owner of GTR, a large guitar institute in Brasília, and currently is a member of Angra
singer Edu Falaschi's band Almah
.
, Distrito Federal
in 1994 as a cover band (playing Rush
, Pink Floyd
, Led Zeppelin
and Deep Purple
), but very soon the musicians began to create their own music. The band released two demos. The first demo of the band was done in their native Portuguese. Then they recorded the song Madman Lullaby, an English version of Balada do Louco (a hit of the Brazilian band Os Mutantes
from the 1970s) for a Tribute CD to former Mutantes member, Arnaldo Baptista
.
The second demo Prophecy "was received very well by the local fans, fanzines and professional magazines from all over Brazil" In June 1999 Alírio Netto, who played the part of Jesus in the Brazilian and Mexican casts of Jesus Christ Superstar
joined the band as a lead vocalist. He replaced Mario Linhares who had left the band. But due to his occupation in the rock opera he could really start his work with Khallice only at the end of 2001. Finally Khallice established stable line-up and finished writing the stuff for their first album, The Journey.
The band's line-up at that time consisted of Marcelo Barbosa
(guitars), Alírio Netto (vocals), Michel Marciano (bass), César Zolhof (drums), Bruno Wambier (keyboards). The Journey was recorded in November 2001 – August 2002 in Zen Studio, Brasília
and included new tunes and rebuilt versions of songs written since the beginning of the band. All the songs were created by Marcelo Barbosa
and Bruno Wambier. There were some progressive metal songs like Spiritual Jewel with some links and allusions to Dream Theater
and classical progressive bands of the 1970s like Yes
and metal hit songs like Vampire, Wrong Words, Thunderstorm and the title track The Journey. According to Thiago Sarkis, Whiplash.net observer, "The Journey play the same part in Brazil like Images and Words
of Dream Theater is for prog metal worldwide". According to the review in Poppycorn.com Webzine: "The album includes 9 compositions with much virtuosity, a lot of guitar and keyboards solos and everything that the prog metal style offers".
To the national release of The Journey Khallice played a concert with one of the most important rock bands in Brazil, Dr. Sin
. With The Journey set-list Khallice played at big musical festivals like Porão do Rock and Brasília Music Festival (BMF), sharing the stage with artists such as Alanis Morissette
and Simply Red
.
The first press of The Journey as a self-release was sold out in less than six months. In the beginning of 2004 it was re-released by Hellion Records and in 2006 an important progressive rock label from North America Magna Carta
managed a worldwide release of The Journey.
Marcelo Barbosa for PerfectProg Webzine (2006): "It happened in the beginning of this year. I went to the USA to play at NAMM and I met Greg Howe for the second time in my life. He gave some classes in 2005 and now I would like to take this opportunity again. I really like his playing, he's one of my favorites players in the world. So, I showed to him two songs of our new CD that were done at this time. He really enjoyed it and helped me with some contacts. Magna Carta was our best option".
After some line-up changes, in the summer 2007 Khallice started recording of the second full-length album with the following line-up: Alírio Netto (vocals), Marcelo Barbosa (guitars), Michel Marciano (bass), Pedro Assumpção (drums) and Renato Gomes (keyboards).
At the end of January 2008 the band became one of the winners (among more than 500 participants) of a contest announced by Dream Theater to support one of their shows during Brazilian part of the tour supporting Systematic Chaos
album. On 7 March 2008 Khallice played a gig in Citibank Hall in Rio de Janeiro
with Dream Theater. It was another opportunity to gather new experience and to conquer some new audience.
Specially for this show Khallice prepared Inside Your Head with 5 new songs from the upcoming second album. The EP included 3 typical prog metal tracks "Inside Your Head", "In The Fire" and "Share A Little Something" (with orchestral arrangements) and two metal ballads "Letting Go" and "Reasons". The cover artwork was created by Gustavo Sazes (Abstrata). The first 1.000 fans who assisted the show got copies of the new EP Inside Your Head. From the Metal Madman Webzine review (rating 9/10): "The production is now crisp, clear, heavy, and with a solid bottom end to it. Vocals are blended perfectly in the mix, and sound incredible. The harmonies alone make this EP worth checking out! What I like about Khallice is even though they are a progressive metal band its not overly done, and the songs flow very well with great catchy melodies, and rhythms."
At this point in the middle of 2007 the activities of Khallice were stopped for a while. The release of the second album was postponed due to Marcelo Barbosa's membership in Almah and the recording Fragile Equality studio album (2008) with the guitarist of Khallice. The second full-length album of Khallice is to be released in 2009.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
act in founded in 1994. The band's founder Marcelo Barbosa
Marcelo Barbosa
Marcelo Barbosa is a Brazilian guitar player and music professor. He is a founder or participant of a few important Brazilian bands like progressive metal act Khallice and Angra's members project Almah...
(guitars) is the owner of GTR, a large guitar institute in Brasília, and currently is a member of Angra
Angra (band)
Angra is a Brazilian metal band from São Paulo, Brazil known for its symphonic interludes, highly technical instrumental playing and Brazilian regional elements.- Biography :...
singer Edu Falaschi's band Almah
Almah
The Hebrew term almah or plural: alamot is a Hebrew feminine noun, for a girl who has reached puberty but is still under the shielding protection of her family; she is a young, marriageable girl. In Bibles, almah is typically translated as virgin, maiden, young woman, damsel or girl...
.
Biography
Khallice started in BrasíliaBrasília
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
, Distrito Federal
Brazilian Federal District
The Federal District is set apart for Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Located in a region called Planalto Central, or Central Plateau, the Federal District is divided in 29 administrative regions. Brasilia - place where the three branches of the Federal Government are located - is the main...
in 1994 as a cover band (playing Rush
Rush (band)
Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...
, Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
, Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
and Deep Purple
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...
), but very soon the musicians began to create their own music. The band released two demos. The first demo of the band was done in their native Portuguese. Then they recorded the song Madman Lullaby, an English version of Balada do Louco (a hit of the Brazilian band Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes ) are an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that were linked with the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s. It was formed by two brothers and a vocalist, but has gone through numerous personnel changes throughout its existence...
from the 1970s) for a Tribute CD to former Mutantes member, Arnaldo Baptista
Arnaldo Baptista
Arnaldo Dias Baptista is a Brazilian rock musician and composer.-Biography:Born from a lyric singer father and a pianist mother , Arnaldo studied classic piano from 1955 to 1959, double bass from 1962 to 1963, and acoustic guitar from1963 to 1965...
.
The second demo Prophecy "was received very well by the local fans, fanzines and professional magazines from all over Brazil" In June 1999 Alírio Netto, who played the part of Jesus in the Brazilian and Mexican casts of Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
joined the band as a lead vocalist. He replaced Mario Linhares who had left the band. But due to his occupation in the rock opera he could really start his work with Khallice only at the end of 2001. Finally Khallice established stable line-up and finished writing the stuff for their first album, The Journey.
The band's line-up at that time consisted of Marcelo Barbosa
Marcelo Barbosa
Marcelo Barbosa is a Brazilian guitar player and music professor. He is a founder or participant of a few important Brazilian bands like progressive metal act Khallice and Angra's members project Almah...
(guitars), Alírio Netto (vocals), Michel Marciano (bass), César Zolhof (drums), Bruno Wambier (keyboards). The Journey was recorded in November 2001 – August 2002 in Zen Studio, Brasília
Brasília
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
and included new tunes and rebuilt versions of songs written since the beginning of the band. All the songs were created by Marcelo Barbosa
Marcelo Barbosa
Marcelo Barbosa is a Brazilian guitar player and music professor. He is a founder or participant of a few important Brazilian bands like progressive metal act Khallice and Angra's members project Almah...
and Bruno Wambier. There were some progressive metal songs like Spiritual Jewel with some links and allusions to Dream Theater
Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts. They subsequently dropped out of their studies to further concentrate on the band that would...
and classical progressive bands of the 1970s like Yes
Yes (band)
Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...
and metal hit songs like Vampire, Wrong Words, Thunderstorm and the title track The Journey. According to Thiago Sarkis, Whiplash.net observer, "The Journey play the same part in Brazil like Images and Words
Images and Words
Images and Words is currently ranked #2 on Digital Dream Door's list of the top 100 progressive metal albums of all time. Music critic Piero Scaruffi includes the album at number 8, just after Fear Factory's Demanufacture and before Sepultura's Roots, in his classification of the best metal albums...
of Dream Theater is for prog metal worldwide". According to the review in Poppycorn.com Webzine: "The album includes 9 compositions with much virtuosity, a lot of guitar and keyboards solos and everything that the prog metal style offers".
To the national release of The Journey Khallice played a concert with one of the most important rock bands in Brazil, Dr. Sin
Dr. Sin
Dr. Sin is a rock band, formed in São Paulo, Brazil in 1991 by Eduardo Ardanuy and brothers Andria and Ivan Busic.-Biography:In the mid 1980s, brothers Ivan and Andria Busic played in several metal and hard rock bands together...
. With The Journey set-list Khallice played at big musical festivals like Porão do Rock and Brasília Music Festival (BMF), sharing the stage with artists such as Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...
and Simply Red
Simply Red
Simply Red were a British soul band that sold more than 50 million albums over a 25-year career. Their style drew influences from blue-eyed soul, new romantic, rock, reggae and jazz...
.
The first press of The Journey as a self-release was sold out in less than six months. In the beginning of 2004 it was re-released by Hellion Records and in 2006 an important progressive rock label from North America Magna Carta
Magna Carta
Magna Carta is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions, which included the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority to date. The charter first passed into law in 1225...
managed a worldwide release of The Journey.
Marcelo Barbosa for PerfectProg Webzine (2006): "It happened in the beginning of this year. I went to the USA to play at NAMM and I met Greg Howe for the second time in my life. He gave some classes in 2005 and now I would like to take this opportunity again. I really like his playing, he's one of my favorites players in the world. So, I showed to him two songs of our new CD that were done at this time. He really enjoyed it and helped me with some contacts. Magna Carta was our best option".
After some line-up changes, in the summer 2007 Khallice started recording of the second full-length album with the following line-up: Alírio Netto (vocals), Marcelo Barbosa (guitars), Michel Marciano (bass), Pedro Assumpção (drums) and Renato Gomes (keyboards).
At the end of January 2008 the band became one of the winners (among more than 500 participants) of a contest announced by Dream Theater to support one of their shows during Brazilian part of the tour supporting Systematic Chaos
Systematic Chaos
Systematic Chaos is the ninth studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater. Released on June 4, 2007 in the United Kingdom and June 5, 2007 in the United States, Systematic Chaos was the band's first release through Roadrunner Records, which was sold to their previous label...
album. On 7 March 2008 Khallice played a gig in Citibank Hall in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
with Dream Theater. It was another opportunity to gather new experience and to conquer some new audience.
Specially for this show Khallice prepared Inside Your Head with 5 new songs from the upcoming second album. The EP included 3 typical prog metal tracks "Inside Your Head", "In The Fire" and "Share A Little Something" (with orchestral arrangements) and two metal ballads "Letting Go" and "Reasons". The cover artwork was created by Gustavo Sazes (Abstrata). The first 1.000 fans who assisted the show got copies of the new EP Inside Your Head. From the Metal Madman Webzine review (rating 9/10): "The production is now crisp, clear, heavy, and with a solid bottom end to it. Vocals are blended perfectly in the mix, and sound incredible. The harmonies alone make this EP worth checking out! What I like about Khallice is even though they are a progressive metal band its not overly done, and the songs flow very well with great catchy melodies, and rhythms."
At this point in the middle of 2007 the activities of Khallice were stopped for a while. The release of the second album was postponed due to Marcelo Barbosa's membership in Almah and the recording Fragile Equality studio album (2008) with the guitarist of Khallice. The second full-length album of Khallice is to be released in 2009.
Current members
- Alírio Netto (vocals)
- Marcelo Barbosa (guitars)
- Michel Marciano (bass)
- Pedro Assumpção (drums)
- Renato Gomes (keyboards)
Former members
- Bruno Wambier (keyboards)
- Pedro Mamede (drums)
- César Zolhof (drums)
- Maurício Barbosa (drums)
- Mario Linhares (vocals)
- Cid Moraes (bass)
Discography
- Prophecy (1996, demo)
- The Journey (2003, Hellion Records)
- The Journey (2006, Magna Carta) – re-release + bonus Stuck
- Inside Your Head (2008)