Italian guitar player and composer Luca Turilli is not just a musician with extraordinary skills, but a musical visionary and genius too. With the symphonic metal band RHAPSODY he wrote musical history, released ten studio albums, including the genredefining milestones Legendary Tale, Symphony of Enchanted Lands and Dawn of Victory. The media dubbed this majestic and unique sound “Hollywood Metal”, while some years later it became known as “Film Score Metal.” Both genres were clearly describing a new style of music based on the connection between the most epic and glorious power/speed metal of the late ’80s with Luca’s infinite passion for the cinema and the world of soundtracks. This genre - enriched by folk music influences, guitar playing of neo-classical inspiration and lyrics related to the fantasy “sagas” created by Luca Turilli himself - influenced a whole generation of new bands in the years to follow. In time RHAPSODY became one of the most important acts of the last decade in the world of heavy/rock music. An exclusive collaboration with Sir Christopher Lee, the most filmed actor in the history of cinema, marked one of the highlights in the career of RHAPSODY, singing on ‘The Magic of the Wizard’s Dream’, as well being a narrator for the »Dark Secret« saga, adding a great pathos to the heroic tale told over 5 albums. Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus the latest masterpiece from Luca is full of mystery and secret knowledge. In the track ‘Il Tempo Degli Dei’ you can hear the real voice of the greatest Italian psychic, Gustavo Adolfo Rol (1903-1994), reading from the pages of his diary the famous words of what he defined as »The Tremendous Law«, that quantum gate discovered by him in 1927 and allowing him to gain access to a set of supernatural “possibilities” that he used in the name of light and love. “That song is dedicated to him as he is one of my greatest inspirations”, adds the lyricist. The first single out of Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus is the charming ‘Rosenkreuz’. “The song tells about the legendary origin of the Rosicrucian Order and the 12 wise men, keepers of the spiritual wisdom of the Ancients and of the highest intellectual knowledge that, willing to react against the corrupted and amoral society of their time, found in the “13th one” the personified synthesis of an immortal spiritual secret reflected in the absolute and purest essence of light and love.”
