Hammer Horror icon Christopher Lee, who recently turned ninety-years-old, is best known for his roles in such classics in Dracula, The Wicker Man and The Man With the Golden Gun, although to younger audiences he is perhaps most recognised for his appearances in the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars movies and his frequent collaborations with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. In 2010, Lee participated in a symphonic metal album entitled Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross, which gained moderate acclaim and won the actor a Metal Hammer award. Two years later and he has returned with a sequel Charlemagne: The Omens of Death.
In a new interview with BBC Radio 5 he discusses both of the Charlemagne albums; “It was called The Sword and the Cross. Before that, I suppose you could say I was first introduced to metal when I sang with a company called Rhapsody. But what I sang was not heavy metal; I sang with a tenor. Then I worked with Manowar as a narrator. I think it was in Germany, and again, that was not me singing metal. AndI became rather fascinated by this, because cause in terms of history of music, it’s fairly recent, really. And if it’s properly done and you can understand the story and you can understand what people are singing, and you have the right bands and the right singers, I think it’s rather exciting. So When I was approached to do the first Charlemagne album, as I said before The Sword and the Cross, I did it but it is heavy metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic. Now on the second one, The Omens of Death, it is one hundred per cent heavy metal. And I’ve done my bits and pieces, and they are heavy metal. I’m not screaming or anything like that, but it is definitely one hundred per cent heavy metal.”
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