''The Fourth Legacy'' is the fourth studio album by American

power metal Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within a symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in co ...

band

Kamelot Kamelot is an American power metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed by Thomas Youngblood in 1987. The Norwegian vocalist Roy Khan joined for the album '' Siége Perilous'', and shared songwriting credit with Youngblood until his departure in A ...

. It was released in 1999 by

Noise Records Noise Records is a German heavy metal record label founded in 1983 by German music industry personality Karl-Ulrich Walterbach as an expansion of his company Modern Music Records. It was sold to the Sanctuary Records Group in 2001 and ceased an ...

/Modern Music. It is the first album to credit vocalist

Roy Khan Roy Sætre Khantatat (; born 12 March 1970), commonly known as Roy Khan, is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. He is the lead singer for the progressive metal band Conception (band), Conception and the former lead vocalist for the American power ...

as a writer on all tracks, establishing him as the main songwriter of the band together with founder and guitarist Thomas Youngblood.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Roy Khan and Thomas Youngblood, except where noted.

Personnel

All information from the album booklet.(1999). "''The Fourth Legacy'' liner notes". In ''The Fourth Legacy'' D booklet Noise Records / Modern Music. Kamelot *

–

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

* Thomas Youngblood –

guitars The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

* Glenn Barry –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

*Casey Grillo –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

Additional musicians *Miro – keyboards and orchestral arrangements, producer *

Sascha Paeth Sascha Paeth (born 9 September 1970) is a German guitarist, bassist, record producer and mixer known for working with heavy metal bands such as Avantasia, Edguy, Angra, Shaman, Rhapsody of Fire, Kamelot, After Forever and Epica. He owns the ...

– additional guitars *Thomas Rettke – background vocals on "Nights of Arabia", "Until Kingdom Come" and "Alexandria" *

Dirk Bruinenberg Dirk Bruinenberg (born 21 August 1968) is a Dutch musician known as the former drummer of several European progressive metal and power metal bands, including: Elegy, Ian Parry's Consortium Project and Adagio. He is often recognized for his i ...

– additional drums * Robert Hunecke-Rizzo – additional drums *Rannveig Sif Sigurdardóttir – backing vocals on "A Sailorman's Hymn" *Cinzia Rizzo – female vocals on "Nights of Arabia" *Farouk Asjadi –

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

and additional

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

on "Desert Reign" *Andre Neygenfind – double bass on "Nights of Arabia" *Fallersleben

String Quartet The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two Violin, violini ...

– strings *Simon McTavish – flute Production *

– producer, mixing, mastering *Derek Gores – cover art, design *Thomas Kuschewski – photography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fourth Legacy, The 1999 albums Kamelot albums Noise Records albums

Track listing

Personnel

See also

References

External links