Thanasis Lightbridge
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Thanasis Lightbridge was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1978. He is a Greek
keyboard player/composer best known as the founder of electronica
art metal
band Dol Ammad
and independent record label Electronicartmetal Records. He is also in the band Dol Theeta
and currently resides in Thessaloniki
, Greece where he maintains a recording studio named "Cosmos". The e-zine Lords of Metal describes Lightbridge as the "Luke Skywalker
of metal."
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
keyboard player/composer best known as the founder of electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
art metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band Dol Ammad
Dol Ammad
Dol Ammad is a heavy metal band formed in 2000 by Greek keyboard player Thanasis Lightbridge. Dol Ammad is characterizeded with instrumentation which layers conventional metal instrumentation , synthesizers, and the vocal support of a fourteen member four-part choir...
and independent record label Electronicartmetal Records. He is also in the band Dol Theeta
Dol Theeta
Dol Theeta is a progressive metal band formed in 2008 by Greek music composer Thanasis Lightbridge. The band represents the second project of Lightbridge's "Electronica Art Metal" vision, the first project being Dol Ammad a more powerful and epic progressive project...
and currently resides in Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
, Greece where he maintains a recording studio named "Cosmos". The e-zine Lords of Metal describes Lightbridge as the "Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the original film trilogy of the Star Wars franchise, where he is portrayed by Mark Hamill. He is introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, in which he is forced to leave home, and finds himself apprenticed to the Jedi master...
of metal."