{{Infobox album | name = Ascending to Infinity | type = studio | artist = Luca Turilli's Rhapsody | cover = LT Rhapsody-Ascending-to-Infinity.jpg | alt = | released = June 22, 2012 | recorded = Backyard Studios, Kempten, Germany,<br>Luca Turilli's private studio, Trieste, Italy,<br>Hiroshima Studio, Challonges, France,<br>December 2011-March 2012 | venue = | studio = | genre = Symphonic power metal<ref name="Metalunderground LTR"/> | length = 57:35 | label = Nuclear Blast | producer = Luca Turilli<ref name="ltrhapsody">{{cite web|url=http://www.ltrhapsody.com/biography.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507024344/http://www.ltrhapsody.com/biography.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-05-07 |title=Biography |publisher=Luca Turilli's Rhapsody official website |accessdate=2012-02-06 }}</ref> | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus | next_year = 2015 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = Metalunderground | rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Metalunderground LTR">{{cite web|url=http://www.metalunderground.com/reviews/details.cfm?releaseid=6643|title= Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity|author=CROMCarl|publisher=Metalunderground.com}}</ref> }}
'''''Ascending to Infinity''''' is the debut studio album by the Italian symphonic power metal band Luca Turilli's Rhapsody, created by Luca Turilli after his departure from Rhapsody of Fire. It was released on June 22, 2012 via Nuclear Blast.<ref name="News">{{cite web|url=http://www.ltrhapsody.com/index.php |title=News |publisher=Luca Turilli's Rhapsody official website |accessdate=2012-02-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216082108/http://www.ltrhapsody.com/index.php |archivedate=2012-02-16 }}</ref>
Considered by the band member as their own "Rhapsody's 11th album", it is the only album to feature Alex Holzwarth on drums, as he subsequently decided to focus on his duties in Rhapsody of Fire.<ref name="ltrhapsody"/>
== Track listing == {{Track listing | all_writing = Luca Turilli,<ref name="News"/> except "Luna" by Romano Musumarra and Giorgio Flavio Pintus | title1 = Quantum X | length1 = 2:26 | title2 = Ascending to Infinity | length2 = 6:15 | title3 = Dante's Inferno | length3 = 4:57 | title4 = Excalibur | length4 = 8:06 | title5 = Tormento e Passione | length5 = 4:52 | title6 = Dark Fate of Atlantis | length6 = 6:30 | title7 = Luna | note7 = {{nowrap|Alessandro Safina cover}} | length7 = 4:16 | title8 = Clash of the Titans | length8 = 4:15 | title9 = Of Michael the Archangel and Lucifer's Fall<br />{{small|I. "In Profundis"<br />II. "Fatum Mortalis"<br />III. "Ignis Divinus}} | note9 = | length9 = 16:02<br />{{small|2:28<br />12:26<br />1:08}}}} {{Track listing | headline = Limited edition bonus track | extra_column = Writer(s) | total_length = | title10 = March of Time | note10 = Helloween cover | extra10 = Kai Hansen | length10 = 5:50}}{{Track listing | headline = Japanese & Mexican limited editions bonus tracks | extra_column = Writer(s) | total_length = | title10 = March of Time | note10 = Helloween cover | extra10 = Kai Hansen | length10 = 5:50 | title11 = In the Mirror | note11 = Loudness cover | extra11 = Akira Takasaki | length11 = 3:37 }}
== Personnel == '''Band members''' *Alessandro Conti - lead vocals *Luca Turilli - guitar, keyboards, orchestral arrangements, producer, engineer, cover concept *Dominique Leurquin - guitar *Patrice Guers - bass *Alex Holzwarth - drums
'''Additional musicians''' *Bridget Fogle, Previn Moore, Matthias Stockinger, Dan Lucas, Johnny Krüger - choir *Sassy Bernert - female voice on tracks 5, 7 and 9 *Jasen Anthony, Previn Moore, Bridget Fogle - narrators
'''Production''' *Sebastian 'Basi' Roeder - engineer, mixing *Arnaud Ménard - engineer *Christoph Stickel - mastering
==Chart performance== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- !Chart (2012) !Peak<br>position |- !scope="row"|Hungarian Albums Chart<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slagerlistak.hu/album-top-40-slagerlista/2012/26|title=Top 40 album- és válogatáslemez-lista – 2012. 26. hét|language=Hungarian|publisher=MAHASZ|access-date=July 4, 2012}}</ref> |align=center|14 |- |align=left|German Albums Chart<ref name="acharts.us"/> |style="text-align:center;"|32 |- |align=left|Swiss Albums Chart<ref name="acharts.us"/> | style="text-align:center;"|55 |- |align="left"|Italian Albums Chart<ref name="acharts.us"/> |style="text-align:center;"|56 |- |align=left|French Albums Chart<ref name="acharts.us">{{cite web|author=Steffen Hung|url=http://acharts.us/album/71660 |title=Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending to Infinity|website=lescharts.com|date=2010-10-23 |accessdate=2012-02-10}}</ref> |style="text-align:center;"|84 |- |align=left|Japanese Albums Chart<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/565066/products/music/969953/1/ |title=アセンディング・トゥ・インフィニティ ルカ・トゥリッリズ・ラプソディーのプロフィールならオリコン芸能人事典-ORICON STYLE |language=Japanese |publisher=Oricon.co.jp |accessdate=2013-02-28}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|103 |- |align=left|Belgian Albums Chart<ref>[https://www.ultratop.be/fr/album/30bbe/Luca-Turilli's-Rhapsody-Ascending-To-Infinity Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending to Infinity] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130407135137/http://www.ultratop.be/fr/showitem.asp?interpret=Luca+Turilli's+Rhapsody&titel=Ascending+To+Infinity&cat=a |date=2013-04-07}} ''ultratop'' February 2013</ref> |style="text-align:center;"|108 |- |}
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