Metal Vocalists - Russell Allen (2013)

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Metal Vocalists - Russell Allen (2013)

Russell Allen (born July 19, 1971 in Long Beach, California) is the singer of the American progressive metal band Symphony X.

He is also a member of supergroups Star One, Allen-Lande and Adrenaline Mob.

Biography

Before working with a rock band, he was a jouster at a Medieval Times
Dinner Theater. He was introduced to the band Symphony X by former
singer Rod Tyler. Allen has been the lead singer of Symphony X since
1995, releasing seven studio albums and one live album with the band.
His first solo album, Atomic Soul, was released April 25, 2005. As well
as singing he also plays the bass when performing songs from Atomic Soul
live. He is referred to in various circles as "Sir Russell Allen", and
he is credited as such on Arjen Lucassen's Star One albums, because of a
joke that Arjen made knowing Allen's former "job" as a jouster.

In the summer of 2005 he went on tour with Symphony X on Dave Mustaine's
Gigantour alongside such bands as Dream Theater, Megadeth, and
Nevermore. In the same year, he also made part of a duo melodic rock
project with singer Jørn Lande (Masterplan) called Allen/Lande, which
already has three albums, all released by Frontiers Records and
performed & composed by Swedish guitarist Magnus Karlsson (Primal
Fear, Starbreaker).

In addition to being on tour with Symphony X, he is also currently
working on another project with guitarist Mike Orlando called Adrenaline
Mob. The EP, Adrenaline Mob, was released in August 2011. The full
length album Omertà was released in March 2012.
Musical style
Allen during a Symphony X concert in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Arjen Lucassen has said the following regarding Russell Allen:

Russell has a very powerful and versatile voice, and on top of that
he is a great musician and performer. Russell was one of the few singers
with whom I didn’t need to be present during recording, but when on the
phone he let me hear the parts he had sung, my eyes filled with tears.
Russell thought I was joking, but I was truly moved! At the moment
Russell is one of the best singers in the world. And he proved that
during the Star One tour.

Allen has worked with Lucassen on various occasions: originally he sang
the song "Dawn of a Million Souls" on Ayreon's 2000 album Universal
Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator (which also featured a guitar
solo by Michael Romeo), and in 2002 he became one of the lead vocalists
for Lucassen's project Star One.

Track listing

CD 1:
01 Symphony X - Sea Of Lies
02 Allen-Lande - Turn All Into Gold
03 Adrenaline Mob - Indifferent
04 Symphony X - The Accolade
05 Star One - Intergalactic Space Crusaders
06 Timo Tolkki's Avalon - Avalanche Anthem
07 Revamp - Sweet Curse
08 Russell Allen - Unjustified
09 Symphony X - Orion - The Hunter
10 Adrenaline Mob - Angel Sky
11 Symphony X - Fallen
12 Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
13 Magnus Karlsson - Free Fall
14 Symphony X - Paradise Lost

CD 2:
01 DGM - Reason
02 Symphony X - Set The World On Fire
03 Takayoshi Ohmura - Delusional Dreams
04 Avantasia - States Of Matter
05 Allen-Lande - Will You Follow
06 Symphony X - The Edge Of Forever
07 Ayreon - Dawn Of A Million Souls
08 Genius - He Will Die
09 Timo Tolkki's Avalon - A World Without Us
10 Allen-Lande - Ask You Anyway
11 Symphony X - Inferno (Unleash The Fire)
12 Star One - Digital Rain
13 Genius - You Won't Escape