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and only permanent member. They describe themselves as a "fantasy band" and have released works that closely resemble classical suites. Their songs often revolve around historical events and classic fairytales. When creating music based on other people's stories, the band uses the name Linked Horizon.''Sound Horizon Official Site''
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History

Sound Horizon began with Revo releasing his music creations on the internet on his website in the late 1990s. In 2001, Sound Horizon participated in

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circle and released their first story CD, ''Chronicle'', an all-instrumental track CD, with occasional narration, background chorus and sound effects. The inclusion of actual singing began from their second release (''Thanatos'') onwards. Their subsequent works were released at Comic Market and M3. Sound Horizon's first major release was in 2004, with the album ''Elysion ~Rakuen e no Zensōkyoku~'' (lit. ''Elysion ~Prelude to Paradise~''). Their first maxi-single, "Shōnen wa Tsurugi o...", which was released in 2006, includes "Shūtan no Ou to Isekai no Kishi ~The Endia & The Knights~", the theme for the

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''Belle Isle''. Although Aramary was their main female singer through the Elysion album, her departure afterward led Sound Horizon's style to shift quite a bit, to having many vocalists, rather than just one main female one (previously Aramary) and one main male vocalist (Jimang). Revo himself also tended to sing more often in the later albums, beginning with ''

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''. On September 3, 2008, Sound Horizon released the album '' Moira''. The album featured Takashi Utsunomiya of

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weekly album charts, selling over 45,000 copies in its initial week. Sound Horizon released the single "Ido e Itaru Mori e Itaru Ido" on June 16, 2010. The single featured guitarist

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voicebank for Vocaloid known as "Junger März PROTOTYPE β". In 2012, Revo began a new project called Linked Horizon, beginning with his work on the score for the

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game '' Bravely Default: Flying Fairy'', a series of EPs and album. In 2013 and subsequent years, Linked Horizon performed the first, second, third and fifth opening themes, as well as the fourth ending theme, for the anime adaptation of ''

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'', " Moon Pride".

Band members

Discography

Sound Horizon's main albums are called 'Stories' or 'Horizons' and are numbered, starting with ''Chronicle''. ''Pico Magic'', ''Pico Magic Reloaded'', ''Elysion ~Rakuen e no Zensōkyoku~'' and ''Chronology'' are compilation albums and are not counted as story albums. ''Chronicle 2nd'' is an expanded reissue of the first ''Chronicle'' album. The ninth story ''Nein'' was released in 2015, even though the eight story, with the working title ''Rinne'', hasn't been released yet.

Doujin albums

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Albums

Singles

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Singles

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Awards and nominations

References

External links

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