Van Canto

We are Van Canto. We play Heavy Metal A Capella. Melodic metal songs, arranged

for 5 singers and one drummer. All instruments that would be played by musicians

in a regular metalband are imitated by our voices. Bass, guitars, solos,

keyboard sounds. On top we put two lead singers, a male one and a female one.

But we left the drums what they are, as we do not do disco pop. And having a

drummer like Bastian it would be a shame not to let him play.

Our self produced debut A Storm to to come was released by

our own label in december 2006. It was attended by our first video clip of ‘The

Mission’ From then, everything went quite fast. Festival gigs, upbeat reactions,

record deal with sony records, gigs with Nightwish, Rage and so

on. In summer 2008 we did a tour in Brazil and the Wacken Open Air.

Our mixture of own songs and covered metal classics (of which Metallica’s

‘Battery’ made it on our first album) works great on stage.

In September 2008 our second album Hero was released.

Produced with Charlie Bauerfeind in Blind Guardian’s

studios we put some more covers aside from our own songs. Nightwish, Manowar,

Iron Maiden and Deep Purple are rearranged in metal a cappella style. Highlight

is Blind Guardian’s ‘Bard’s Song’, which inspires Hansi Kürsch

to contribute some guest vocals to our own Song ‘Take to the Sky’.

The release is followed by a german tour and another one as support of

‘Letzte Instanz’. With some summer festivals (amongst others together with

Manowar) we finish our hero tour. We are now two and a half

years old, released two albums and played about 60 gigs. Our „Rakkatakka

Motherfucker“ is well known by metal fans, which makes us very proud.

In August 2009 we enter the studio again with Charlie Bauerfeind to record

our third album Tribe of Force. It is released worldwide together with our back

catalouge in February 2010. We focus on own songs again and put 11 of them on

our new record. We are featuring Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica) on 'Hearted' and

Victor Smolski (Rage) on 'One to Ten'. Furthermore we do covers of 'Master of

Puppets' and 'Rebellion' (together with Grave Digger's Chris Boltendahl).

The release will be followed by a club tour in Germany and many festival gigs

all over Europe.



LOST FOREVER



KINGS OF METAL



SPEED OF LIGHT



THE MISSION



WISHMASTER



BATTERY