Actor Christopher Lee has recorded a "symphonic metal" album telling the story of his ancestor Charlemagne.
Although he has previously worked on metal projects – narrating several records by Italian band Rhapsody of Fire, and collaborating briefly with Manowar – he has never released an album before. This particular project resonated not just with the actor's dark, storm-whipped soul – but with his family tree. "I am through the Carandini family [his mother's] actually descended from Charlemagne," he revealed. [Link, via]Listen if you dare:
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