Editorial
The band we are presenting this month, Trick or Treat, is an established band from Italy, with its beginnings being a tribute band of none other than Helloween. And since we are talking about tribute, and after several already published albums, they come to present us a new album about Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac. What better tribute than this great album with 14 songs based on the saga of the Sanctuary Acts? Whoever listens to this album will remember the great moments of the series and the emotion of the fighting. But the album is not the soundtrack of the series, is much more: a personal album of their own, which they have made their own trying to show in each letter and music that they have written the joys and sufferings of those mythical Golden Knights. Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus, the disc cannot be presented yet. But as soon as they have the opportunity to do it, they will present it. If you read the interview carefully, you will not only find where they will present it when they can, but also how they have produced this album, the collaborations they have had on this and other albums, the musicians they would like to collaborate with in the future… Anyway, do not miss the interview, which is worth it. And nothing else for this month. Fans of anime and Saint Seiya cannot miss this album, but fans of good music cannot miss it either. When the concerts resume, you cannot miss it live, since it must be spectacular to hear live what they have recorded on the album. See you next month. And remember: Burn Your Cosmo !!!
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Born in 2002 as a tribute to Helloween, the band soon became one of the most solid realities in the vibrant Italian metal scene, with albums very well received by critics and fans alike (including 'Tin Soldiers', which includes the presence of Michael Kiske and Michele Luppi, and 'Rabbits' Hill Pt 1 & Pt 2', with Andre Matos, Tony Kakko and Tim Ripper Owens as special guests) and hundreds of shows played all over the world, including an European tour with Helloween and Stratovarius. Between 2018 and 2019 Trick or Treat finally brought to life a project that they had been conceiving for quite some time, namely the release of 'Re-Animated' (a cover album of animated series soundtracks) and 'Legend of the XII Saints' (a concept album inspired by the saga of the Golden Knights of the Zodiac), further cementing a reputation that sees them today among the main players in European Power Metal - also thanks to singer Alle Conti joyning Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and Swedish band Twilight Force. We have the pleasure of having Trick or Treat in our digital magazine who come to tell us details about this new work. First of all we would like to thank you for giving us this interview at this time when you are so busy with the presentation of this new album. To begin this interview, we want to ask you, how did this band come about and whose idea was it to name it? The name of the band was invented in 2002 when Trick or treat came to life as tribute to Helloween. Currently, who are you and what is your role in the band? I’m Luca Venturelli (the guitarist since 2014), I replaced Luca Cabri, one of the band founder. I felt immediately at ease from the very beginning and in fact, I’m one of those who composes the most, along with Guido Benedetti (guitar) and Alessandro Conti (voice).
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In this new album called "Legend of the XII Saints", what is the theme that we are going to find? It will be a wonderful journey across the Saint Seiya world created by Kurumada, from which we took free inspiration. We composed and wrote the lyrics about every single Gold Saint, exploring their personalities and trying to show through their joys and sufferings. After the publication of this album, have you thought to continue with this theme for future projects? Ehmmm, no, we won’t continue with this theme.
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Born in 2002 as a tribute to Helloween, the band soon became one of the most solid realities in the vibrant Italian metal scene, with albums very well received by critics and fans alike (including 'Tin Soldiers', which includes the presence of Michael Kiske and Michele Luppi, and 'Rabbits' Hill Pt 1 & Pt 2', with Andre Matos, Tony Kakko and Tim Ripper Owens as special guests) and hundreds of shows played all over the world, including an European tour with Helloween and Stratovarius. Between 2018 and 2019 Trick or Treat finally brought to life a project that they had been conceiving for quite some time, namely the release of 'Re-Animated' (a cover album of animated series soundtracks) and 'Legend of the XII Saints' (a concept album inspired by the saga of the Golden Knights of the Zodiac), further cementing a reputation that sees them today among the main players in European Power Metal - also thanks to singer Alle Conti joyning Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and Swedish band Twilight Force. We have the pleasure of having Trick or Treat in our digital magazine who come to tell us details about this new work. First of all we would like to thank you for giving us this interview at this time when you are so busy with the presentation of this new album. To begin this interview, we want to ask you, how did this band come about and whose idea was it to name it? The name of the band was invented in 2002 when Trick or treat came to life as tribute to Helloween. Currently, who are you and what is your role in the band? I’m Luca Venturelli (the guitarist since 2014), I replaced Luca Cabri, one of the band founder. I felt immediately at ease from the very beginning and in fact, I’m one of those who composes the most, along with Guido Benedetti (guitar) and Alessandro Conti (voice).
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In this new album called "Legend of the XII Saints", what is the theme that we are going to find? It will be a wonderful journey across the Saint Seiya world created by Kurumada, from which we took free inspiration. We composed and wrote the lyrics about every single Gold Saint, exploring their personalities and trying to show through their joys and sufferings. After the publication of this album, have you thought to continue with this theme for future projects? Ehmmm, no, we won’t continue with this theme.
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Something very significant in this work is the album cover, could you tell us who made it? Could you tell us about the image? As many of you may know, the creator of all the illustration of Trick or treat is Alessandro Conti, who as professional job, apart from singing, makes the tattoo artist and illustrator. The cover album portrays a sundial with 12 flames…who is a fan of Saint Seiya clearly knows that the run through the 12 houses is in fact time-marked by a sundial. As for the collaboration, do you have any collaboration in this album? If so, what could you learn from them? For this album we decided to call a rising star between the modern power metal voices, the super talented Yannis Papadopoulos, singer of Beast in Black. Incredible voice, very scratchy, which is perfect for the duet with Alle in Gemini: Another Dimension. And about the production, who produced the album? The album was produced by Eddy Cavazza. For future work, with which vocalists or musicians would you like to share the project? Nice question! In our discography we had the please to invite many important guests as Matos, Kiske, Kakko, Luppi, Yannis, ecc… who can desire something better!? Eheheh… so, thinking about it well, there will be one… Timo Kotipelto. One of the greatest of all the time! Now let's talk about your lyrics, we know they are very intense, who is in charge of to make these compositions? The lyrics have been written mostly by Guido and Alle. Referring to your career, have you had the opportunity to work with any record company? How has the experience been? We had the opportunity to work with 3 different records: Valery Records was our first label with which we published 3 albums, so we created a sort of affective relationship with it. Then we changed to Frontiers Records with Rabbit’s hill pt. 2, a label known worldwide and at last we changed to Scarlet Records of our friend Filippo Bersani, with the new album The Legend of XII Saints.
Now you are presenting your new album, what cities are you planning to visit? Our hope is to be able to play live again soon, with these pandemic regime it is impossible at the moment, but in the future, as soon as there will be the opportunity, we will start the promotion of this album by bringing it out live from Europe to Japan…and anywhere there will be the chance!
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Something very significant in this work is the album cover, could you tell us who made it? Could you tell us about the image? As many of you may know, the creator of all the illustration of Trick or treat is Alessandro Conti, who as professional job, apart from singing, makes the tattoo artist and illustrator. The cover album portrays a sundial with 12 flames…who is a fan of Saint Seiya clearly knows that the run through the 12 houses is in fact time-marked by a sundial. As for the collaboration, do you have any collaboration in this album? If so, what could you learn from them? For this album we decided to call a rising star between the modern power metal voices, the super talented Yannis Papadopoulos, singer of Beast in Black. Incredible voice, very scratchy, which is perfect for the duet with Alle in Gemini: Another Dimension. And about the production, who produced the album? The album was produced by Eddy Cavazza. For future work, with which vocalists or musicians would you like to share the project? Nice question! In our discography we had the please to invite many important guests as Matos, Kiske, Kakko, Luppi, Yannis, ecc… who can desire something better!? Eheheh… so, thinking about it well, there will be one… Timo Kotipelto. One of the greatest of all the time! Now let's talk about your lyrics, we know they are very intense, who is in charge of to make these compositions? The lyrics have been written mostly by Guido and Alle. Referring to your career, have you had the opportunity to work with any record company? How has the experience been? We had the opportunity to work with 3 different records: Valery Records was our first label with which we published 3 albums, so we created a sort of affective relationship with it. Then we changed to Frontiers Records with Rabbit’s hill pt. 2, a label known worldwide and at last we changed to Scarlet Records of our friend Filippo Bersani, with the new album The Legend of XII Saints.
Now you are presenting your new album, what cities are you planning to visit? Our hope is to be able to play live again soon, with these pandemic regime it is impossible at the moment, but in the future, as soon as there will be the opportunity, we will start the promotion of this album by bringing it out live from Europe to Japan…and anywhere there will be the chance!
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I suppose that like many bands from Italy, you would like to take your music out of the country? Of course, we have always been taking out our music of our country, especially in Europe and Japan. For people who know you little and are reading you for the first time, what would you say about yourself? Semplicemente che siamo un gruppo di amici che suonano power metal ahah (Just that we're a group of friends playing power metal ahah) And, where can they find you? On Instagram at trickortreat_official , on Facebook at TRICK OR TREAT page and on our website www.trickortreatband.com To finish this interview you would like to say to all those people who follow you and to all the readers of Dolce Metal. We want to thank very much the readers of Dolce Metal for their important support and thank you too for your interest in interviewing us! Thank you very much for dedicating your time to us and we hope that this new album will bring you a lot of success, and that this interview will reach as many people as possible so that they can enjoy your music.
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I suppose that like many bands from Italy, you would like to take your music out of the country? Of course, we have always been taking out our music of our country, especially in Europe and Japan. For people who know you little and are reading you for the first time, what would you say about yourself? Semplicemente che siamo un gruppo di amici che suonano power metal ahah (Just that we're a group of friends playing power metal ahah) And, where can they find you? On Instagram at trickortreat_official , on Facebook at TRICK OR TREAT page and on our website www.trickortreatband.com To finish this interview you would like to say to all those people who follow you and to all the readers of Dolce Metal. We want to thank very much the readers of Dolce Metal for their important support and thank you too for your interest in interviewing us! Thank you very much for dedicating your time to us and we hope that this new album will bring you a lot of success, and that this interview will reach as many people as possible so that they can enjoy your music.
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