VAN CANTO — Hero

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Album · 2008

Filed under Power Metal
By VAN CANTO

Tracklist

1. Speed Of Light (4:23)
2. Kings Of Metal (3:41)
3. Pathfinder (4:48)
4. Wishmaster (4:22)
5. The Bard's Song: In The Forest (3:09)
6. Quest For Roar (3:32)
7. Take To the Sky (4:41)
8. Fear Of The Dark (7:09)
9. Hero (5:18)

Total Time: 41:03

DVD on special edition:
01. The Mission Videoclip
02. Battery Videoclip
03. Making Of "Battery"
04. Speed Of Light Videoclip
05. Making Of "Speed Of Light"
06. Rain Videoclip
07. Brazil Video
08. Studio Report
09. Track by Track
10. Photo Gallery

Line-up/Musicians

- Dennis Schunke / vocals
- Inga Scharf / vocals
- Stefan Schmidt / lower "Rakkatakka" vocals, "Wahwah" solo guitar vocals
- Ross Thompson / higher "Rakkatakka" vocals
- Ingo Sterzinger / lowest "Dandan" voice Chords
- Dennis Strillinger / drums

Guest musician:
- Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) / vocals (7)

About this release

Release date: September 26, 2008
Label: GUN records/Sony BMG

Re-released by Napalm Records on December 11, 2009 in Germany and includes the previously unreleased bonus track "Carry On" (Angra Cover), the videos for "Speed Of Light" and "Wishmaster," and a previously unreleased bonus video for the song "Kings Of Metal"

Thanks to progshine for the updates

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Van Canto of Germany may do something a little different with their take on power metal in that other than the drums their music is entirely A Cappella, but they’ve never done much for me beyond being a novelty act, and one which has now been taken just that bit too far to remain entertaining.

Hero is the band’s second album and although I think this is their best, it too has never been more than a novelty for me. I think this is best explained by saying that it’s the number of the cover songs found on the album which are the most entertaining. They deliver A Cappella takes on Nightwish’s Wishmaster, Blind Guardian’s The Bard’s Song (In the Forest) and Iron Maiden’s Fear of the Dark along with a couple of others and a bunch of original songs. I know all three of the songs I mentioned well, and love the originals, so Van Canto’s versions are somewhat interesting, but that’s where my enjoyment of Hero ends, although I will give a mention to one of their own songs, Speed of Light, as I do quite enjoy this one too.

Hero is okay in small doses but it is at most a passable album which I’ll give a spin to on occasion for that novelty value alone. If I listen to it too much though I start to get irritated by the repetitive so called rakkatakka vocals.

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