Halo with Holy Wings

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Background Information
Name (English)	Halo with Holy Wings
Name (Chn.)	圣翼光环 / shèng yì guāng huán
Origin	Beijing
Genre	Neoclassical / (Extreme) Power Metal
Years active	2001 - unknown
Members
Yu Zhang - Guitar Nan Wang - Bass YuYa - Keyboards Yang Jiao - Drums Yue Tian - Vocals Li Zhang - Guitar
Former members
Xiao Yan (femal Voc.)
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History

Winter 2001, classic fan Yu Zhang who also studied classic guitar formed this band together with Bass player Nan Wang and Drummer Yang Jiao out of the ashes of X-Trees. In the first line up Xiao Yan was the female Voc doing operistic singing and black metal screams, band leader Yu Zhang took over clean male backing Vocs. The main content of their music is bassed on melodic speed metal with symphonic classic guitar elements.

Shortly later Keyboarder Yuya joint the band and Yue Tian replaced Xiao Yang on Vocals in Winter 2002.

March 15th, 2003, they performed in the What bar. April 19th, they rocked the Get Lucky Bar. August 10th, they rocked the Nameless Highland. September 21st they performed in the Get Lucky Bar. October 18th, they performed in the Nameless Highland. December 20th, they performed in the B52 bar.

In 2004, on February 20th, they performed in the Nameless Highland. March 13th, they rocked the Get Lucky Bar during a Metal Night. April 4th, they performed in the New Get Lucky Bar. April 16th, they rocked the old Get Lucky Bar. April 24th, they performed in the Get Lucky Bar during the second Metal Night event. In July they contributed a song "I. Oath for + II. Fairy Tale" on the underground compilation CD "Deadly night II". November 19th, they performed in the new YunMeng bar. November 22nd, they performed in the Nameless Highland during the 中国地下音楽網 3rd Anniversary Party.

On March 4th 2005, they performed in the Nameless Highland. On April 30th, they rocked the Yun Meng bar during an anti-Japan event. May 2nd, they performed in the Nameless Highland during the release concert of Resurrection of the Gods III (VA), a compilation record on which they are included.