The Black Halo features a guest appearance by a Dutch symphonic metal band, that was founded by who?
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The Black Halo The Black Halo is the highly acclaimed, seventh full-length album by the American power metal band Kamelot. It was released on March 15, 2005, through Steamhammer Records. It is a concept album inspired by Goethe's Faust. Continuing the story introduced in "Epica" (2003), it is the second and final record in Kamelot's two-part rock opera about Ariel (a character based on Heinrich Faust). Epica tells Part 1 while The Black Halo tells Part 2. Goethe's Faust is also broken into two parts. The Black Halo features guest appearances by Simone Simons (Epica), Shagrath (Dimmu Borgir), Jens Johansson (Stratovarius), and several others. The album was released on vinyl in the spring of 2009, along with "Ghost Opera" (2007).
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Epica (band) Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band, founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen after his departure from After Forever.
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Mercenary (band) Mercenary is a melodic death metal band from Denmark, that was formed in 1991. The band incorporates a lot of power and progressive elements in their songwriting.
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Hammercult Hammercult is an Israeli based thrash metal band, founded in 2010. The band, which is highly regarded as the leading extreme metal band of the Israeli metal movement in the 2000s.
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U.D.O. U.D.O. is a German heavy metal band founded by lead vocalist Udo Dirkschneider in 1987.
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DVS Records DVS Records is a Dutch independent record label, specializing in progressive metal and related music. It was founded in 2000 by Rene Janssen, a Dutch enthusiast of progressive rock and metal, and also one of the organizers of the ProgPower festival. The label's mottoes are "uncommon sounds for intelligent listening" and "music we love for people we like".
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Saille Saille is a Belgian black metal band, formed in 2009 by Dries Gaerdelen.
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Xenomorph (band) Xenomorph is a Dutch death metal band formed in 1994 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The band is named after the Xenomorphs, fictional extraterrestrial creatures created by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger and used in the Alien franchise.
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Serenity (band) Serenity is an Austrian symphonic power metal band, which was originally formed back in 2001. However, it became a more stable group with a consistent line-up in 2004, when it also began using more progressive and power influences than earlier. They have defined their genre with more melodic and symphonic metal elements.
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Helheim (band) Helheim is a Norwegian black metal band from Bergen, formed in 1992.
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Killer (Belgian band) Killer is a Belgian heavy metal band founded in 1980. The lead guitarist is Paul Shorty Van Camp.
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Silent Force Silent Force is a German power metal band with neoclassical and progressive influences, founded by German guitarist Alex Beyrodt.
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Marionette (band) Marionette is a Swedish melodic death metal band. They hail from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2005. The band achieved recognition from placing high, and often winning, many national and international music contests. Inspired by the Japanese visual-kei scene and the brutality of Swedish hardcore and metal, Marionette has brought new light to the metal genre. When founded in 2005, when the average member’s age was 16, Marionette quickly made a name for themselves in the Swedish metal scene by winning and placing high in many national and international music contests. In support of the EP, "Terror Hearts" -which was mixed and mastered by Fredrick Nordström (In Flames, At the Gates) – Marionette shared the stage with some of the world’s most renowned metal acts including: Machine Head, Slayer, Mastodon, Meshuggah, and Candlemass among others.
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Vader (band) Vader is a Polish death metal band from Olsztyn. Formed in 1983, the group was founded by then-bassist Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek and guitarist Zbigniew "Vika" Wróblewski. Vader went through several lineup changes over the years, with Wiwczarek as the only constant member. Since 2011, the band has comprised Wiwczarek on guitars and vocals, guitarist Marek "Spider" Pająk, bassist Tomasz "Hal" Halicki, and British drummer James Stewart.
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Lux Occulta Lux Occulta (which is Latin for "hidden light" or "the secrets of light") is a Polish avant-garde metal band, founded in late 1994. Their work, also strongly influenced by progressive metal and black metal, commonly incorporates elaborate arrangements often featuring multiple sections and unpredictable time changes.
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Susperia Susperia is a Norwegian black/thrash metal band formed in October 1998 by Tjodalv and Cyrus.
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Inhume (band) Inhume is a Dutch death metal/grindcore band, formed in 1994.
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Mnemic Mnemic is a Danish metal band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark in 1998. Their music is a fusion of industrial metal, thrash/ groove metal, djent, progressive metal and nu metal, a style the band themselves have described as "Future Fusion Metal."
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Samael (band) Samael is a Swiss symphonic black/industrial metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland.
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Arvas Arvas, formerly known as Örth, is a Norwegian black metal band formed in Bergen in 1993 as a one-man project by multi musician V-Rex. In Summer 1996, Borknagar drummer Grim and Gorgoroth bassist Ares joined the band. They recorded an album in Winter 1996, titled "Nocturno Inferno", but it was never released. After Grim committed suicide in 1999, V-Rex decided to keep on going as a one-man project, but changed the band's name. He recorded two demos, "Countless Souls at Dawn" and "I Am Thy Grief", and a split album with Hordagaard titled "Dawn of Satan/Uncle Satan", which was released by Azermedoth Records. The band's first official full-length album "Blessed from Below – Ad Sathanas Noctum" was released in 2010 by the band themselves. Their second album "Into The Realm Of The Occult" was released in November 2013 by Italian label ATMF Records, to be followed in March 2015 by "Black Satanic Mysticism", via Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation. Arvas has shared stages with bands like Throne Of Cartasis, Urgehal, Dauden, 1349, Mongo Ninja, Nocturnal Breed. In March 2013 Arvas toured the east European countries supporting Deicide on their 'End Of The World Tour'. The band's fourth full-length, "Black Path", was released on 24 March 2017 by Mighty Music.
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Burgerkill Burgerkill is an Indonesian metal band, originally from Bandung, capital city of West Java. The band is named after the fast food restaurant, Burger King, as a prank. The band was founded in May 1995 by Aris Tanto a.k.a. Eben, sometimes called 'Ebenz', a young man from Jakarta, who came to Bandung to continue his study. In Bandung, Ebenz met Ivan Scumbag, Kimung, and Dadan. This four personnel became the first line-up of Burgerkill.
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Within Temptation Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded in April 1995 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt. They have always been classified by critics as gothic metal, although the "gothic" influence varies with each album. Their most prominent and well-known sound is described as symphonic metal, although their earlier material, such as debut album "Enter", was mostly gothic metal. "Enter" even had a hint of doom metal. In an interview, Den Adel said they fell into a symphonic rock genre with various influences. In a later interview with Dutch music platform 3VOOR12, den Adel stated that "we consider ourselves more a symphonic rock band ... in my opinion, we are no gothic band".