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Progladyte 
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 Topic: Can You Tell Me More About Leviathan?
Posted: May 28 2006 at 01:57 |
I've just been listening to a few brilliant tracks from the Kalevala 3CD set from Finland and which included a rather long song from a band called Leviathan who I understand are from Italy.
Does anyone know much about this band and whether they are still active?
Thanks for any info you might have.
Cheers,
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: May 28 2006 at 03:13 |
I do not know the italian band named Leviathan. I know the U.S, band Leviathan (very good one shot band a la deep purple-first mood that released their album in 1974).
I'll check it out for the other band from my own country.
Edited by Andrea Cortese - May 28 2006 at 05:50
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Masque
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Posted: May 28 2006 at 03:26 |
Leviathan prog metal from the USA are the ones I know about and can recommend (they are like early Enchant , but I don`t know the other Leviathan (I have heard of them however) theres also a heavy metal leviathan (which I didn`t like) there is maybe a few leviathans about 
Edited by Masque - May 28 2006 at 04:30
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Bryan
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Leviathan is an absurdly common band name. I associate it with the US black metal band (who incidentally have nothing to do with prog). but the Italian one is listed on our site with a few insightful reviews, so I would advise checking that out.
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eugene
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Posted: May 28 2006 at 07:08 |
Yeah, it can be a bit confusing, as too many leviathans around lately...
However I just recently listened to one called "Leviathan - Riddles Questions Poetry & Outrage" 1996 - I think this album is lsited here in PA. I did not like it too much - standard "prog"-metal - 2 stars, maybe, in my rating, but if you are fan of metal, it can suit your tastes much better; at least my friends, who are into metal stuff, spoke quite highly about it.
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Progladyte
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Posted: May 28 2006 at 07:37 |
Seeing the 3 CD set this track was lifted from was from Finland, I doubt if it can be anything other than the Italian band who have released 3 albums from the 90's. It's Neo but it's extremely good Neo and I need to find some more of this.
I have a mate who has the original of this so I can ask him for some more details. My copy is only a promo review version with no artwork.
Thanks anyway.
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BePinkTheater
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Posted: May 28 2006 at 11:22 |
Why is this name so common?! What does it even mean 
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I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
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Fishy
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Posted: May 28 2006 at 13:53 |
QUOTE=Progladyte]I've just been listening to a few brilliant tracks from the Kalevala 3CD set from Finland and which included a rather long song from a band called Leviathan who I understand are from Italy.
Does anyone know much about this band and whether they are still active?
Thanks for any info you might have.
Cheers,
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If you like that song you should check the back catalogue on this website. The Leviathan you refer to is the eighties band from Italy who issued 3 albums in 1988, 1990 and 1996. Especially the "Bee yourself" album is a fine album with interesting keyboardlines and memorable tunes. Their style is a bit similar to IQ, Marillion or Pendragon but it also shows some significant influences from Italian bands of the seventies like Banco or PFM. I don't know if the band still exists at this very moment but I do know that after their contribution to the album you mentioned they did a 22 minute epic for another musea project called : "collossus of Rhodes" in 2004. I believe yYou can find more info on the website of the frech record company musea records
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Rosescar
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Posted: May 28 2006 at 14:43 |
 BePinkTheater wrote:
Why is this name so common?! What does it even mean |
It's some biblical monsters - a huge sea dragon or something similar
that tried to destroy the world but then Jesus or Petrus came and
kicked his ass.
Wikipedia is fun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan
Edited by Rosescar - May 28 2006 at 14:44
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