Elegant and stylish, Brazil’s Magician’s debut release is an inspirational epic that gives hope to the concept album. TALES OF THE MAGICIAN is a multi-cultural odyssey that harks back to Avantasia and early Angra. With its classically influenced musicianship and its stylistic merging of progressive and thrash metal, Magician has made a higly auspicious start here. And to help out on this first outing, TALES FROM THE MAGICIAN was mixed and mastered by such metal luminaries as Kai Hansen (Gamma Ray, Helloween, Iron Savior), Dirk Schlächter (Gamma Ray, HammerFall, Brainstorm), and Arne Lakenmacher (Kreator, Sodom, Nevermore).