Karelia - Lift Me Up (Restless 2008) - (MOBY Cover)

Karelia is a French heavy metal band created in 2000 by Lionel Vest and Matthieu Kleiber.

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01. Restless
02. Trial
03. Mirror, Mirror
04. Lift Me Up
05. Please Come On In
06. Lovin' Wife
07. Crash
08. Give It Away
09. From My Window
10. Losing My Religion

Karelia first released a self-titled demo in 2000.

Their first full-length album Usual Tragedy was released in 2004 on the German label Drakkar Records. It includes many orchestral arrangements which are the reason why the band's music is often called symphonic heavy metal or simply symphonic metal. Lyricwise, Usual Tragedy is a concept album about a man who crossed both World Wars, lost his father during the first one, lost his beloved one during the second one, witnessed the violence and the madness of men, eventually lost his own sanity and died alone and anonymous in an hospital.

Their second studio album, Raise, released in 2005 on Drakkar Records as well, is not as orchestral as Usual Tragedy but has dark, melancholic atmospheres that could already be heard on the first album as well and that seem to be the band's trademark; that's why Karelia's music is also sometimes called gothic metal. The lyrics deal with various themes such as blinding and misleading of people by a charismatic leader ("Raise"), religion wars ("Cross and Crescent"), childhood ("Child Has Gone", "Unbreakable Cordon"), depression ("Breakdown").

In January 2007, keyboardist Bertrand Maillot left the band, and Jack Ruesch joined the band as second guitarist.

In June 2007, the band finished the recording of its third album Restless. It was first expected to be released in September/October 2007 (as stated in January 2007 on their still-working then website), but Karelia later announced on its MySpace that it would be released through the French label Season Of Mist; the label's website displays April 21 2008 as the release date. The cover artwork hasn't been revealed yet. Restless will show new musical orientations, featuring industrial elements, as can be heard in the samples available on the band's MySpace.

In fall November 2007, Karelia opened for the well-known German hard rock band Scorpions for three of their shows in France.

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[quincastle]

more like some type of pseudo-pseudo rock

[MasterFeradon]

@Eclair707 Exactly!

[superbeast326]

Sounds like Industrial Metal to me?

[TheDarkus88]

@nounever @nounever Lol I'm French and we have lot of other metal bands xD we have AqME and other but they are not known sorry for my English ^^

[Eclair707]

oh! Toribash's logo

[MasterFeradon]

@TheSweatdreams94 Nope, it isn't. :D

[Heyrobot]

@nounever Man, you're just so wrong ! You don't know French Metal at all... Try some of these bands : Zuul FX, Black Bomb A, In Other Climes, S-Core, The ARRS, Freedom For King Kong, Sidilarsen, L'esprit du Clan, Lofofora, Benighted, Blockheads, Loudblast, Mass Hysteria, X Vision, Smash Hit Combo ...

[orikalkosdartz1]

COOOL!!!! the guitar and all of that gave it a real touch of rock!!! I LOVE IT!!!

[nounever]

@TheSweatdreams94 Metal is not crappy, because this isn't metal it's shit, metal doesn't sound like this, you have no knowledge or understanding of metal. That is like saying Lady Gaga is classical music when it clearly isn't.

[TheSweatdreams94]

@nounever thx god we have only a few metal bands ..... metal is so crappy x)