Christmas Metal Symphony Promo Clip (with captures from 2008 edition)

If you are bored of all those Christmascelebrations with your family; we hereby present you the best way to escape reality! The first edition was on Sunday December 28. 2008 one of the finest metalvenues in the Netherlands, 013 in Tilburg, presented the first edition of a new metal conceptshow with a (Christmas-)twist named CHRISTMAS METAL SYMPHONY! Vocalists and musicians like CHUCK BILLY (Testament), DORO, RUSSELL ALLEN (Symphony X), MATS LEVÉN (Therion), JOHAN EDLUND (Tiamat) IAN PARRY (Consortium Project), MARCELA BOVIO (Stream of Passion), FLOOR JANSEN (After Forever) and GEORGE OOSTHOEK (Orphanage) were on stage together with a 6-piece band and a 30-piece classical orchestra, and they performed the finest metalsongs of all times. This unique show contained songs from all metalgenres from progmetal to rock, from death to speed and from industrial to NWOBHM....you name it...it was all in the show!! Musical-director of Christmas Metal Symphony is JOOST VAN DEN BROEK (keyboardist & songwriter of After Forever) who joined forces with the MAGNUM OPUS ROCKESTRA. This impressive classical orchestra is unique in its kind, since all musicians are long term classical trained but real rock and metalfans by heart. Its safe to say that they delivered the icing on the Christmaspudding! The heavy backbone of the show is a fantastic metalband, handpicked by Joost and contains some of the finest Dutch metalartists: KOEN HERFST (Drums / Epica), MARCEL COENEN (Guitars / Sun Caged), JOHAN VAN STRATUM (Bas / Stream of Passion), FRANK SCHIPHORST (Guitars / Control Human Delete), JEFFREY REVET (Keyboards / Stream of Passion ) and, of course, Joost van den Broek himself also on keyboards. Over the years, artists have written many conceptalbums and conceptshows; great stories and great unique songs. The team of Christmas Metal Symphony decided that so many great songs have already been written though the years that it would be a shame not to use them. For this reason, you may expect impressive performances of some of the finest metalsongs, by some of the finest international artists in a great Christmas setting in one of Hollands finest concertvenues. What a great way to celebrate Christmas.... www.myspace.com/christmasmetalsymphony