I will watch them live tomorrow. :D... I watched Rhapsody w/Turilli + Lione last year. Great recording, but i would recommend to not use digital zoom most of the time in a song as picture gets grainy.
Are the choir parts of this song prerecorded instead of being sung live? That's what it seems like. If so, then that is extremely lame. They should be touring with a live choir.
One of the best things of being a Rhapsody fan is that they always get better and give us content, the first three albums still the best ones, but the new ones aren't worst, this is power metal, it tells different stories, each one needs a different sound, different techniques, and technically Giacomo is way better than Fabio and Roberto is waaay better than Luca playing live, what you said make no sense. Let's thank to have a band that only improves and never stops! Long live Rhapsody of Fire!
The new singer isn't bad. I prefer the old singers a bit more, but there is nothing wrong with the new one. And it's not his fault that the old ones jumped ship in order to make crappy new music on their own that is much worse than anything Rhapsody ever did.