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Empress Legion
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 20 ม.ค. 2019
Management & Booking: Paul Sellier (paul@dereynamanagement.com)
Formed in 2018, Empress spawned between Vlad Khavin and Mark Stainthorpe who set out to create something not often found in the Philadelphia music scene, with love for bands such as Symphony X, Kamelot and Epica, a heavy and orchestrated blend of power and progressive metal. Recruiting Joseph Muir the trio began their quest for a vocalist eventually bringing Barbara Blackthorne into the fold once they heard her powerful voice. Nicholas Bonsanto soon completed the lineup on bass.
Vlad's composition combined with Barbara's powerful, trained vocal abilities creates a unique world for listeners to inhabit utilizing various voice techniques, genre bending segues, and hard hitting riffs that pummel listeners to bow before Empress. Stay tuned for more as we lead up to the release of our full-length debut album.
Formed in 2018, Empress spawned between Vlad Khavin and Mark Stainthorpe who set out to create something not often found in the Philadelphia music scene, with love for bands such as Symphony X, Kamelot and Epica, a heavy and orchestrated blend of power and progressive metal. Recruiting Joseph Muir the trio began their quest for a vocalist eventually bringing Barbara Blackthorne into the fold once they heard her powerful voice. Nicholas Bonsanto soon completed the lineup on bass.
Vlad's composition combined with Barbara's powerful, trained vocal abilities creates a unique world for listeners to inhabit utilizing various voice techniques, genre bending segues, and hard hitting riffs that pummel listeners to bow before Empress. Stay tuned for more as we lead up to the release of our full-length debut album.
EMPRESS - Wings of Serenity (Acoustic Falconer Cover)
Wings of Serenity acoustic originally performed by Falconer
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End of 2022 shows with Empress
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Footage and pictures taken during our run to New England with Ice Giant and our album release show back at home. We can’t wait to see you on the road in 2023!
EMPRESS - Monarch (Official Lyric Video)
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#midjourney #aiart #lyricvideo #musicvideo #midjourneyai #ai Video created by Nick Bonsanto This video was made using the Midjourney AI art system to develop images based on the lyrical content of the song Monarch from the first Empress album, Fateweaver. After generating enough images to tell a story, they were uploaded into a video software to combine them with the song's lyrics. Hopefully, t...
EMPRESS - The Fall of Kingdoms (Official Video)
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This music video was filmed during our performance at Mad With Power Fest 5 where we played on 08/19/22, the same day of our album release. The audio is from our debut album, "Fateweaver". This is "The Fall of Kingdoms", enjoy! Bonus points to whoever can correctly guess what it is about in the comments! For all things Empress: linktr.ee/Empress.legion Special thanks to Ty Christian and all of ...
EMPRESS - Chimera (VISUALIZER VIDEO)
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Fateweaver, the debut album by Empress is out NOW! store.empresslegion.com/ Chimera is the 3rd single off of the upcoming debut album "Fateweaver" by Empress. This song weaves the tale of a proud adventurer lured into a grim fate by the beast of legend. Explore the sonic twists and turns of Empress on this Symphonic Metal journey. Video by Nicholas Bonsanto EMPRESS website, socials and more: li...
Eventide (Behind the Scenes)
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Fateweaver out now!!! Store.empresslegion.com Filmed and edited by Nicholas Bonsanto
EMPRESS - Eventide (Official Video)
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Fateweaver, the debut album by Empress is out NOW! store.empresslegion.com/ EMPRESS website, socials and more: linktr.ee/Empress.legion Pre-save the album: orcd.co/empress_fateweaver Music video by Vlad Khavin Eventide is a very special song to Empress. This is the closest thing we have to a ballad and the lyrical subject matter was designed to fit the heart-wrenching mood Vlad presented to the...
EMPRESS - Into the Grey (Official Video)
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Fateweaver, the debut album by Empress is out NOW! store.empresslegion.com/ EMPRESS website, socials and more: linktr.ee/Empress.legion Pre-save the album: orcd.co/empress_fateweaver Into the Grey from upcoming debut album "Fateweaver" by Empress. Into the Grey paints a picture of the moment just before leaving behind all that is familiar and diving into the unknown in order to chase your dream...
Maid of Orleans (Drum Cover by Mark Stainthorpe)
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Mark Stainthorpe tracking the drums for our cover of Maid of Orleans by Dark Moor.
EMPRESS - Maid of Orleans (Dark Moor cover)
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Once upon a time, before the whole world was cancelled by a plague, we were preparing a new cover to add to our set for some of our upcoming shows. They, like the rest of the world, were also cancelled. We didn't remain idle during the plague times. We finished writing a bunch of music and headed into the studio. Mark was warming up, and we were testing our video equipment, and this song was on...
Legion - One Night by a Campfire
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An acoustic version of the song Legion by Empress, recorded live one night, by a campfire in a yard in Philadelphia. It goes without saying that this past year has been absolutely insane for all of humanity. We know we haven’t said much, but due to the serious nature of world events, we felt it more appropriate to allow more important platforms to take precedence during this time. However, we w...
EPICA - Storm the Sorrow (Vocal cover by Empress)
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Barbara Blackthorne of Philadelphia (USA) based Symphonic Power Metal band EMPRESS singing her take on Storm the Sorrow by the legendary EPICA. Thanks for watching! Please subscribe and share! FB: Empresslegion/ IG: @Empresslegion Empresslegion.com Music and Merch: empresslegion.bandcamp.com/
Recognized the songs you played on Sunday was such a great show and was great to meet you in person. Hope the rest of the tour goes well!!
Nice Job. Mathias is god
Great stuff outstanding 🫡❤️
one of my favorite acoustic songs ever. It felt to me like you were overdoing everything, i know it's a cover..
actually great, very catchy
Man falconer is a such a great band to cover. Thank you.
Love the voice!
Go get 'em Barbara!
🤘🤘
Awesome!
Stunning!!
This is so gorgeous! I love it.
PS. Can't stop the signal, Mal 😉
I was looking for it to hit here 👍 Thank you
Most excellent! Very melodic and catchy! Keep up the fantastic work!❤
Nice job!
Amazing cover!
Praise Gorithm! Gorithm provides!
Got to see Barbara perform with the guys in After Time a couple weeks ago. Very impressive! She’s super cool,got to talk to her for a bit. Honestly, she enhanced the band more then their actual singer. (Just my opinion).
Fateweaver is a great album. Was surprised to see its your first FL. Rare to see such high quality on a first. You also nail pretty well the mix of sympho and power.
Wow thank you!!!
Love this this!💜💜
it's a fucking excellent song! Born in the Dark would be awesome too!!
Absolutely love this video! I can relate having lost my wife to cancer back in 2011. Still miss her more than words. Looking forward to hearing you live in the Northeast Philly area real soon. I’ll be sure to pick up some merch when I’m there. Very nicely done.
Thank you for sharing that with us! ❤️ We know its a hard subject, but these were raw feelings that were experienced during the writing process and we are proud to have channeled it into art rather than something unhealthy.
Nicely done! You could easily open for them, and or Nightwish.
gorgeous singer amazing voice
Btw, is she an opera singer? Such a voice.
Barbara was classically trained in her teens but was never a pro opera singer. She has performed opera in school.
This cover is amazing!!! Well done, and one of my absolute favorite songs! 🤘
Superb job!!! Love it!! 🤘
Saw these guys yesterday in Delaware. They absolutely slayed. When they pulled this out I couldn't believe it. Amazing cover, amazing band.
I love this.
Great show tonight in Boston/Cambridge. It was great meeting all of you and thanks for signing my CD.
I’m here because of Vedic. Really dig your sound.
😍😍😍 wow, just heard of you in this moment. after a few seconds i was taken by storm and devoured every song of you. every (!) song of you is a 100% like. top voice, top music.
Thank you very much!
Love you wonderful people
Cant wait to see you guys in Philly next month with HammerFall 🤯
Yes, its so exciting! See you there!
🙌🤘🤘💪🎶
amazing song, amazing cover
What a great honor mates, thank you very much for this wonderful cover of my time in Dark Moor. A very big kiss from Spain!!! 🇪🇸
Thank you so much, Elisa!! We love lighting up the stage with this anthemic sing along too and reminding people what amazing music you all brought forth! The legacy lives on! 🤘🏼
Barbara Blackthorne !!!! !!!😍
Amazing singer!!! Awesome job 🤟🏼
So glad I headed out to Brooklyn to FINALLY get a live dose of Empress! Hope to see y'all in 23🤘🤘
🤘😄🤘
Discovered you from A&P reacts and loved it. Getting a really nice Nightwish/Stratovarius vibe. Keep it up! 🤘🤘
Found this from TikTok and this was instant hit.
Woah! That’s good to know, we are very new and unfamiliar with TikTok, glad its working!
first song i've heard from you guys! absolutely love it <33
Hell yeah! Glad you enjoy it 🤘🏼
Just discovered you guys, getting hard Nightwish - Wishmaster vibes from this track! Love it
The talent in this band is truly incredible!🤘🏼
Awesome tune!