Christian Vidal (born 26 April 1972) is an Argentine guitarist, member of the

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band Therion. He has so far released two solo albums.

Life and career

Christian Vidal was born in Zárate,

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. He started playing guitar at the age of eight. In 2001 he formed the heavy metal band ''Cuero'' together with former

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vocalist ''Enrique Gomez Yafal''. ''Cuero'' went for several tours across

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and recorded two albums "''Cuero''" (2000) and "''Heavy Metal''" (2004). Christian released his solo album
El Viaje
in 2005. He mixed instrumental rock with different native Argentine styles like Folklore and Tango there. He had toured Spain with that album for two times. In 2007 he got a place in ''The Road Vultures'', the band had purpose of returning former Mr. Big vocalist Eric Martin. ''The Road Vultures'' have already toured with him across

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and

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. Other members were ''Charlie Giardina'' (bass) and ''Pablo Garrocho'' (drums). For several years he had given guitar lessons at I.T.M.C. (Technological Institute for Contemporary Music), regarding improvisation and chord melody applied to Argentine native music.Therion official website
In February 2010 Christian Vidal came to Therion as a new

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, and took part in recording "

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" album. After that he began the

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tour with Therion. It started on 1 October in

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. Throughout November and December, they were touring

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, presenting the band's new work. In March 2012 Christian were in

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recording guitars for the new Therion album

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. In April 2012 he were on tour with Queen symphonic rhapsody with

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, Mats Leven, ''Michelle Mc Cain''. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Therion, he was touring

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(June 2012) and

(Oct – Nov 2012).

Discography

*2000 — Cuero «Cuero» *2002 — Christian Vidal «Instrumental» *2004 — Cuero «Heavy Metal» *2005 — Christian Vidal «El Viaje» *2010 — Therion «

» *2012 — Therion «

» *2017 – ''

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'' *2018 – Therion ''

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