Haggard (band)

Haggard
Haggard at Global East Rock Festival 2010 in Kiev, Ukraine.
Background information
Origin	Germany
Genres	Neoclassical metal, symphonic metal, doom metal, progressive metal, death metal
Years active	1989–present
Website	www.haggard.de
Members	Asis Nasseri Giacomo Astorri Janika Groß Martin Florestan Fiffi Fuhrmann Catalina Popa Stefana Sabau Aline Deinert Cosmin Nechita Anne Eberlein Ivica Kramheller Lisa Hellmich Johannes Schleiermacher Florinda Hoffmann Claudio Quarta Hans Wolf Maurizio Guolo Ingrid Nietzer
Past members	Susanne Ehlers Linda Antonetti Nicoló Bartoli Steffi Hertz Luz Marsen Michael Stapf Michael Schumm Veronika Kramheller Gaby Koss Andi Nad Manuela Kraller Patricia Krug Andreas Fuchs

Haggard (/ˈhæɡərd/) is a German neo-classical metal musical group founded in 1989. The group combines classical music and early music with death metal.

Haggard was founded in 1989 and originally played death metal. They changed their musical style after their first demo tape, Introduction in 1992, becoming a band with symphonic melodies and classical instruments but folk themes. The album And Thou Shalt Trust... the Seer marked their breakthrough in 1997. After their second album Awaking the Centuries (the life of the prophet Nostradamus), they toured through Mexico twice. In 2004, they released their third album Eppur Si Muove which is about the life of Italian scholar, Galileo Galilei, sentenced to house arrest for heresy by the Catholic Church for supporting Copernicus' claim that the Earth revolved around the sun.

Just before their album Awaking The Centuries was released, the group had its highest number of musicians at 21. All their songs are written by vocalist and guitarist, Asis Nasseri.