Christopher Lee — known for playing Saruman the White in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Count Dooku in Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, and lots of crap Max Von Sydow turned down – has recorded a metal concept album about Charlemagne with Italian power-metal band “Rhapsody”. Read that sentence as many times as you need to. Yep. That’s what that says. Now you might be mentally-prepared to check out the widget below containing the music MetalSucks describes as “just ridiculous. [...] makes me wonder if this could truly be the same man who once so lit up in the screen in Police Academy: Mission to Moscow.”
Tread cautiously, MetalSucks. He shed the blood of the Saxon men. Also, he’s 87. I’m pretty sure you get one free kill if you make it to 87. That’s why I’m sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber so I can live to be 174, hop into a time machine (they’ll have them by then shut up), and take out both Seltzer and Friedberg before they can make any movies.
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Brain = ‘Sploded.
WANT! Damn work!
I’m sorry…this is like crazy fucking insanity awesome.
You go Christopher Lee, I hope you live forever. And he will…cause he’s Dracula bitches.
Christopher Lee is automatically the best at anything he does (except for dancing, or anything else that requires mobility).
It’s old. He already recorded his voice for previous Rhapsody albums.
You can check out one of them here : [www.youtube.com]
On the other hand, he recorded a solo album a while ago, titled “Revelations”, with some “symphonic metal undertones” (yeah).
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King Diamond passes the crown to Christopher Lee
i’m a bit disappointed with lee’s metal album. maybe that’s because i was expecting it to be, you know, METAL.
Is he really 87? I mean REALLY?