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3	Vision Divine is a PowerMetal band from UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} formed in 1998 as a side project of Music/{{Labyrinth}}'s guitarist Carlo Andrea "Olaf Thorsen" Magnani, which also features Music/RhapsodyOfFire's (in that moment, simply Rhapsody) singer Fabio Lione. The name of the band is composed by the previous name of Labyrinth (Vision) and the supposed name of Olaf's first solo album (Divine). The band had many lineup changes, with Olaf as the only constant member.
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5	! Members
6	* Ivan Giannini - vocals
7	* Carlo Andrea "Olaf Thörsen" Magnani - guitar
8	* Andrea "Tower" Torricini - bass
9	* Federico Puleri - guitar
10	* Alessio "Tom" Lucatti - keyboard
11	* Mike Terrana - drums
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13	! Past members
14	* Fabio Lione - Vocals (1998-2003, 2008-2018)
15	* Michele Luppi - Vocals (2003-2008)
16	* Andrew Mc Pauls - Keyboard (1999-2002)
17	* Oleg Smirnoff - Keyboard (2002-2005)
18	* Cristiano Bertocchi - Bass (2006-2012)
19	* Mat Stancioiu - Drums (1999-2002)
20	* Ricky Quagliato - Drums (2006)
21	* Matteo Amoroso - Drums (2003-2005)
22	* Alessandro "Bix" Bissa - Drums (2006-2016)
23	* Danil Morini - Drums (2006) (session music)
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25	!Discography
26	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Vision Divine]]'' - 1999
27	* ''Send Me An Angel'' - 2002
28	* ''Stream Of Consciousness'' - 2004
29	* ''The Perfect Machine'' - 2005
30	* ''The 25th. Hour'' - 2007
31	* ''9 Degrees West To The Moon'' - 2009
32	* ''Destination Set To Nowhere'' - 2012
33	* ''When All the Heroes are Dead'' - 2019
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35	!The band has examples of:
36	* AlbumIntroTrack:
37	** ''Send Me An Angel'' starts with an instrumental piece called "Incipit".
38	** ''Stream of Consciousness'' kicks off with a scene of a person relaxing and turning the radio called "Stream of Consciousness", which leads onto "Secret of Life".
39	** ''The 25th. Hour'' starts with a small voice-and-piano piece called "My Angel Died".
40	** ''Destination Set To Nowhere'' starts with an italian-spoken piece of ambientation called "S'il Fosse Foco" which ends with a countdown to a rocket launch. This piece leads onto "The Dream Maker".
41	* BookEnds: ''Stream of Consciousness'' begins and ends with the main character asking what's the meaning of life.
42	%% (ZCE) * BreakupSong: "Taste of a Goodbye", from ''Send Me An Angel''.
43	* CompellingVoice: In "New Eden", from ''Vision Divine'':
44	--> Shall you kneel down to me...
45	--> I am your reason to be...
46	* ConceptAlbum: The three albums with Luppi, ''Stream of Consciousness'', ''The Perfect Machine'' and ''The 25th. Hour''. The latter is a follow-up to the first, thematically-wise.
47	* CoverVersion: "[[Music/{{Europe}} The Final Countdown]]", "[[Music/{{aha}} Take On Me]]", "[[Music/{{Helloween}} Invitation/Eagle Fly Free]]", "[[Music/{{Queensryche}} The Needle Lies]]", "[[Music/DreamTheater Another Day]]", "[[Music/JudasPriest A Touch Of Evil]]", "[[Music/IronMaiden Wasted Years]]" and "[[Music/{{Savatage}} Gutter Ballet]]".
48	%% (ZCE) * EightiesHair
49	* EpicRocking: Mostly averted [[AwesomeMusic/PowerMetal for the genre]], except in "Letter to my child never born" from ''9 Degrees West To The Moon'', (8:56) "The Perfect Machine", from the eponymous album (7:56) and "Colours Of My World" from ''Stream Of Consciousness''. (7:24) And those are just the examples over the 7-minutes mark.
50	* GardenOfEden: "New Eden", from ''Vision Divine'', is about a god-like figure angry at the inhabitants of Eden for breaking his rules.
51	--> This is the Eden I made out for you,
52	--> You'd blow it out breaking rules...
53	* {{Instrumental}}: "Forgotten Worlds" from ''Vision Divine''; "Incipit" and "Nemesis" from ''Send Me An Angel''; "In The Light", "Fool's Garden" and "The Fall of Reason" from ''Stream of Consciousness''; and "Waiting for the Dawn" from ''The 25th. Hour''.
54	* LonelyPianoPiece: "Of Light And Darkness" from ''Vision Divine''.
55	* ScienceIsBad: ''The Perfect Machine'' deals with a history about a scientist who discovered the key to eternal life and the consecquences of achieving immortality.
56	* ShoutOut:
57	** "Nemesis" had some bars extracted from Music/{{Survivor\|Band}}'s "Eye of the Tiger" a.k.a. the ''Film/RockyIII'' theme.
58	** "La Vita Fugge" starts with an excerpt from "Sonetto CCLXXII" by Francesco Petrarca.
59	** ''Destination Set To Nowhere'' opens with an excerpt from the eponymous poem by Cecco Angiolieri.
60	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Apocalypse Coming", from ''Send Me An Angel''.
61	--> ''"It's the end of the world,\
62	on my wings of glory\
63	I ride the last breath of time\
64	Human kind, damned souls,\
65	at the end of your story\
66	you cry, but now it's too late..."''

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