If you dig into the Eternal Archives of the DV, you will find out that there are six artists surnamed Lee that we have covered.<\/p>\n
Oh, heck, let\u2019s do a seventh. Gods know it\u2019s going to be interesting.<\/p>\n
Christopher Lee, former secret agent and assassin, mountain climber, professional vampire, Hammer studio staple, Saruman, Sith lord, and all around Most Interesting Man In The World, also had a musical career. If you\u2019re unaware of this, hold on to your hats.<\/p>\n
Lee did three CDs of symphonic metal as the vocalist.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re going to look at his last release, 2014\u2019s Metal Knight<\/i>, an EP of\u2014swear to the gods\u2014metal covers of Broadway, opera, and Frank Sinatra. If that doesn\u2019t scare you away, keep reading, because it only gets weirder.<\/p>\n
There are just four songs on this EP in practicality, though there are three more tracks that are longer versions of the initial songs. The first two, \u201cI Don Quixote\u201d and \u201cThe Impossible Dream,\u201d are from the musical The Man Of La Mancha. <\/i>Lee does a credible job with both; he seems to have a personal identification with Don Quixote, who he says \u201cis the most metal fictional character that I know.\u201d I\u2019m\u2026 not sure what to say to that, except to say that these two songs are bona fide and Lee\u2019s voice is as pleasant singing as it is speaking.<\/p>\n
Putting aside the third track for a moment, we consider his metal version of \u201cMy Way.\u201d Dudes, dudettes, and others, I would never in a million years think of doing \u201cMy Way\u201d as a metal song, but damned if it doesn\u2019t work. Lee\u2019s vocals on this song, half sung, half spoken, have real passion and force to them; it\u2019s hard to remember that Sir Christopher was ninety-freaking-one when he recorded this. It works. It works well.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, his version of \u201cToreador Song\u201d from the opera Carmen<\/i> is another story. I\u2019m sure he handpicked every song on this EP, and I\u2019m sure he wanted to do this one. However, the bombast of the music and the ebullience of Lee\u2019s vocals don\u2019t mix, and there are some songs that should never be metalized. This would be one of those.<\/p>\n
Metal Knight<\/i> is more than a curiosity or a publicity stunt. Lee has genuine metal cred, and he mostly pulls it off. Definitely worth checking out.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10839],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-46591","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-christopher-lee","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46591"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}