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VISION DIVINE was born in 1998, originally intended as Olaf Thorsen’s solo project (Labyrinth’s guitarist at the time). Very soon he starts collaborating again with Fabio Lione (lead singer of Labyrinth on their first album “No Limits” and current frontman of Rhapsody of Fire) and the solo project rapidly turns into a real band, its name being a combination of “Vision” -old Labyrinth’s monicker when Olaf created the band- and “Divine” -the title intended for Olaf’s solo album. The line-up got completed with Mat Stancioiu (drums), Andrew Mc Pauls (keyboards) and Andrea Tower Torricini (bass). In 1999 their first studio album, self-titled “VISION DIVINE”, is released and immediately becomes a huge hit. In 2001 the band starts writing and recording the new album, called “SEND ME AN ANGEL”, to be released in January 2002. At the end of that same year Olaf decides to leave Labyrinth to focus exclusively on VD and stop any annoying rumor about VISION DIVINE being considered a mere “side project”. In three years VD release two albums, and thanks to good sales results the band starts touring around the world. We’d like to mention the great South American Tour in December 2000, where for the 1st time an italian Heavy Metal band got the chance to play sold-out concerts in Argentina , Cile, Brasil , Panama and Mexico , as headliners. To further give the band a more consistent and definitive identity, Mat Stancioiu and Andrew Mc Pauls leave VD to play exclusively with Labyrinth, and get replaced by Oleg Smirnoff on keyboards (ex Eldritch and Death SS) and Matteo Amoroso on drums (ex Athena).

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power metal, progressive metal, metal, italian, italian metal
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1	The 25th Hour full track	156
2	La Vita Fugge	136
3	A Perfect Suicide full track	123
4	The Secret of Life	116
5	Versions of the Same	113
6	The Fallen Feather	100
7	Out of the Maze	97
8	Stream of Unconsciousness	96
9	Through the Eyes of God	89
10	Shades	87
11	We Are, We Are Not	82
12	Identities	76
13	Take on Me	65
14	Alpha & Omega full track	62
15	The Fall of Reason	61

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Delano999 wrote:
Thursday evening

Nice band!

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Strains wrote:
last week

Good fucking band

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WarWorldMusic wrote:
last month

Visita il nostro forum ;)

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BlAckDrAgon90 wrote:
September 2008

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notrex wrote:
September 2008

не поклонник павера, но The 25th Hour ничего

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Kedavra wrote:
September 2008

"A perfect suicide" is a cool song. I listened to it being performed live last July, it was nice.

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Gustavo_Metal wrote:
September 2008

I hope Fabio Lione have stopped with that excessive and annoying vibratto (AaAaAaaAaAAAaaAAaaAAA <<a.k.a. listen to the CD "Send Me An Angel" lol)

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WarWorldMusic wrote:
September 2008

vi volevo segnalare questo forum http://worldmusic.forumfree.net/

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Enforceris wrote:
September 2008

M.Luppi's departure really has put me into depression. Another perfect band becoming into not-so-perfect. All the albums with Luppi are perfect. the voice, the melody - it takes away the problems, stress of the day and much much more. It really was one-of-a-kind band. But now they got Fabio, so I guess they will rename themselves to Rhapsody Vision of Divine Fire... Really hoping that M.Luppi will be in this band again one day...

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kamelot32 wrote:
September 2008

Very smooth! Good vocal and lyric content as well!! "Versions of the Same" is really cool!

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Winterburner wrote:
August 2008

Yep, 25th hour is great. I like Fabio at least what I have listened to Rhapsody of Fire, in which he sings. I'm not sure about Luppi anymore than what I've listened to 25th hour (I don't own any VD's albums).

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Kuroi_Kumo wrote:
August 2008

i just love luppi's vocals on The 25th hour album - could listen to it all day :P

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Kuroi_Kumo wrote:
August 2008

Alpha & Omega ftw

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zergbutt wrote:
August 2008

Oh! Yeah, that's the one. Thanks. k, srsly, anyone have any idea?

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Winterburner wrote:
August 2008

it is from a song called shades

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zergbutt wrote:
August 2008

Is the last part of the solo of "Shades" from somewhere? It sounds so familiar.

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Muller-_- wrote:
August 2008

Fabio <3

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carlos616 wrote:
July 2008

Nah, Luppi is great. Since his arrival the albums went from average to awesome. Too bad he's gone, though I look forward to Fabio's return.

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RZephyr07 wrote:
July 2008

Luppi is a horrible vocalist, I'm sorry. I can't get into this band at all because his voice is so absolutely annoying :(

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Azard wrote:
July 2008

Sono un grande gruppo che porta la bandiera italiana sugli alatari degli dei del metal, meritando di sedere accanto a band dai grandi nomi..continuate così!!!

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