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For the Aztecs linebacker, see Russell Allen (American football)
Russell Allen (American football)

Russell Allen was the Starting lineup linebacker for the San Diego State Aztecs from 2005-2008. He was the only non-senior team captain in 2007....


Russell Allen (born July 19, 1971 in Long Beach
Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
) is the singer of the American Progressive metal
Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a Fusion ; a mixture of progressive rock and Heavy metal music. Progressive metal blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock....
 band Symphony X
Symphony X

Symphony X is an American progressive metal band founded in New Jersey in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. Their 1997 album The Divine Wings of Tragedy and their 2000 release V-The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community....
.

n has been the lead singer of Symphony X
Symphony X

Symphony X is an American progressive metal band founded in New Jersey in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. Their 1997 album The Divine Wings of Tragedy and their 2000 release V-The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community....
 since 1995, releasing seven studio albums with the band.

His first solo album, Atomic Soul, was released April 25, 2005. As well as singing he also plays the bass when performing songs from Atomic Soul live.






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For the Aztecs linebacker, see Russell Allen (American football)
Russell Allen (American football)

Russell Allen was the Starting lineup linebacker for the San Diego State Aztecs from 2005-2008. He was the only non-senior team captain in 2007....


Russell Allen (born July 19, 1971 in Long Beach
Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
) is the singer of the American Progressive metal
Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a Fusion ; a mixture of progressive rock and Heavy metal music. Progressive metal blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock....
 band Symphony X
Symphony X

Symphony X is an American progressive metal band founded in New Jersey in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. Their 1997 album The Divine Wings of Tragedy and their 2000 release V-The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community....
.

Biography

Allen has been the lead singer of Symphony X
Symphony X

Symphony X is an American progressive metal band founded in New Jersey in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. Their 1997 album The Divine Wings of Tragedy and their 2000 release V-The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community....
 since 1995, releasing seven studio albums with the band.

His first solo album, Atomic Soul, was released April 25, 2005. As well as singing he also plays the bass when performing songs from Atomic Soul live. He is referred to in various circles as "Sir Russell Allen", and is credited as such on Arjen Lucassen's
Arjen Anthony Lucassen

Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a composer and musician from the Netherlands and is most widely known for his albums released under the name Ayreon. Lucassen plays a wide variety of instruments, chiefly guitars and synthesizers, but also less commonly others such as the flute and mellotron....
 Star One
Star One

Star One is a Netherlands progressive metal side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame....
 album.

In the summer of 2005 he went on tour with Symphony X on Dave Mustaine
Dave Mustaine

David Scott Mustaine is the lead guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist for the heavy metal music band Megadeth. Mustaine grew up in various Southern California suburbs....
's Gigantour
Gigantour

Gigantour is the name of an annual six-week traveling heavy metal music music festival organized by Megadeth's Dave Mustaine. The tour was founded in 2005 with dates across North America, and the 2006 and 2007 line-ups also traveled to Australia....
 alongside such bands as Dream Theater
Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an United States progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band....
, Megadeth
Megadeth

Megadeth is an American Heavy metal music band led by founder, front man, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. Formed in 1983 by Mustaine and bass player David Ellefson following Mustaine's departure from Metallica, the band has since released eleven studio albums, six live albums, two Extended play, thirty single , thirty-two music video...
, and Nevermore
Nevermore

Nevermore is an United States Heavy metal music band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 from the ashes of the power metal band Sanctuary ....
.

Musical style

Russell is most well-known for his very melodic, loud singing style and drawn out vocal lines, as well as his large vocal range; possibly the most notable of which can be heard in the song "Wicked", on Symphony X's 2002 album, The Odyssey
The Odyssey (album)

The Odyssey is the sixth studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X. It was the first to be recorded entirely at guitarist Michael Romeo's home studio....
. More recently, Allen has demonstrated a harsher vocal style on Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost (Symphony X album)

Paradise Lost is the seventh studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, and it deals greatly with John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost....
 and during live performances. His singing is much lower and more forceful, at times adding a sharp "growling" style blended with his older melodic style. This, combined with Michael Romeo
Michael Romeo

Michael James Romeo is an United States guitarist and a founding member of the progressive metal group Symphony X....
's use of D tuning, makes for a much heavier sound on stage, even in performances of older, more melodic songs.

Multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist

A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different musical instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists....
 Arjen Lucassen has said the following regarding Russell Allen:

Allen has worked with Lucassen on various occasions: originally he sang the song "Dawn of a Million Souls" on Ayreon
Ayreon

Ayreon is a project by Netherlands composer and musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen.Ayreon's musical style derives mostly from Heavy metal and progressive rock, but combines them with genres like Folk music, European classical music and electronica to form what some call a completely new style of music....
's 2000 album Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator

Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator is a progressive metal album released in 2000 by Dutch multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen, and is the fifth album of his Ayreon project....
 (which also featured a guitar solo by Michael Romeo
Michael Romeo

Michael James Romeo is an United States guitarist and a founding member of the progressive metal group Symphony X....
), and in 2002 he became one of the lead vocalists for Lucassen's project Star One
Star One

Star One is a Netherlands progressive metal side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame....
.

Discography


Solo

  • Russell Allen's Atomic Soul
    Atomic Soul

    Atomic Soul is Symphony X lead singer Russell Allen's debut solo album. It was released on April 26, 2005....
     (2005)


With Symphony X
Symphony X

Symphony X is an American progressive metal band founded in New Jersey in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. Their 1997 album The Divine Wings of Tragedy and their 2000 release V-The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community....

  • The Damnation Game
    The Damnation Game

    The Damnation Game is the second album by progressive metal band Symphony X, which followed only eight months after their first album, Symphony X , was released....
     (1995)
  • The Divine Wings of Tragedy
    The Divine Wings of Tragedy

    The Divine Wings of Tragedy is the third studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, released in 1997. It features nine tracks, ranging in style from "symphonic thrash" to neo-classical to epic, progressive pieces ....
     (1997)
  • Twilight in Olympus
    Twilight in Olympus

    Twilight in Olympus is the fourth studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, which was released in 1998. It features eight tracks, two of which have become classics: Smoke and Mirrors and Through the Looking Glass, the latter an epic based on Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
     (1998)
  • V: The New Mythology Suite (2000)
  • The Odyssey
    The Odyssey (album)

    The Odyssey is the sixth studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X. It was the first to be recorded entirely at guitarist Michael Romeo's home studio....
     (2002)
  • Paradise Lost (2007)


With Ayreon
Ayreon

Ayreon is a project by Netherlands composer and musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen.Ayreon's musical style derives mostly from Heavy metal and progressive rock, but combines them with genres like Folk music, European classical music and electronica to form what some call a completely new style of music....

  • Flight of the Migrator (2000)


With Star One
Star One

Star One is a Netherlands progressive metal side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame....

  • Space Metal (2002)
  • Live On Earth
    Live On Earth

    Live On Earth is the first live Compact Disc and DVD by Netherlands band Star One. It features not only songs from their debut album, Space Metal , but also songs from Ayreon, another musical project by Arjen Anthony Lucassen....
     (2003, live album)


With Jørn Lande
Jørn Lande

J?rn Lande is a Norway Heavy metal music and hard rock singer who has sold over 1.5 million records. Jorn Lande is considered by such famed artists as Ken Hensley, Glenn Hughes and Arjen Lucassen , plus many others to be one of the greatest hard rock and metal singers in the world today....
 (as Allen/Lande)

  • The Battle
    The Battle (album)

    The Battle is a Heavy metal music album by two metal vocalists: Ex-Masterplan vocalist J?rn Lande and Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen.It is also performed, composed and produced by Starbreaker guitarist Magnus Karlsson ....
     (2005)
  • The Revenge
    The Revenge (album)

    The Revenge is the second album by ex-Masterplan vocalist J?rn Lande and Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen, under the name "Allen/Lande", featuring Starbreaker guitarist Magnus Karlsson ....
     (2007)


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