Luca Sellitto - The Voice Within on CD

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Luca Sellitto is an Italian guitarist and songwriter, mostly known in the European melodic metal scene for being the founder and leader of the power/progressive metal band STAMINA, officially active since 2007. With STAMINA, Luca has released four full-length studio albums up until now, plus a live album (CD+DVD), recorded in Poland. He has also played numerous gigs in Europe with the band, including countries such as Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Germany and Poland. The Voice Within is a neoclassical power metal album, composed and produced by Luca Sellitto, therefore his first solo album. With this record, Sellitto s intention is both to pay his personal tribute and bring new life to this old subgenre of heavy metal, for the joy of all fans of YNGWIE MALMSTEENS S RISING FORCE, early STRATOVARIUS, ROYAL HUNT, VINNIE MOORE, TONY MACALPINE, early SYMPHONY X etc. For this purpose, the guitarist decided to join forces with some of his favourite singers and musicians, who are among the best performers in the neoclassical/power metal realm. Most of them have actually taken part to some important albums for the history of this style. All tracks were mixed & mastered by Fabio Calluori and Luca Sellitto at Sonic Temple Studio , Santa Tecla (SA), Italy. Line-up: Patrick Johansson: Drums (ex Yngwie Malmsteen; Impellitteri; V.Moore) / Svante Henryson: Bass and Cello (ex Yngwie Malmsteen; Joey Tempest) / Göran Edman: Vocals on track 2 (ex Yngwie Malmsteen; John Norum) / Henrik Brockmann: Vocals on track 4 (ex-Royal Hunt; Evil Masquerade) / Rob Lundgren: Vocals on tracks 1,5 and 7 (The Mentalist) / Luca Sellitto: Guitars and Keyboards (Stamina) - Feat. members of Yngwie Malmsteen, Impellitteri, Vinnie Moore, John Norum, Joey Tempest, Royal Hunt, Evil Masquerade & The Mentalist in the line-up - For fans of: Yngwie Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore, Royal Hunt, Stratovarius & Tony MacAlpine.