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JOURNEY THROUGH THE DARK was formed in the gloomy Autumn 1993
on the initiative of the guitarist Gianluca Vecchio,
availing of Carlo Carbone on the voice and Francesco Caliri on
the drum; they are the only elements surviving to the
original line-up, which was at first composed by 5 members, including
as special-guest for more than a year Andrea Rizzuto,
singer and bass-player of another well-known Italian band: GLAGIAL FEAR.
Soon after a sixth member was introduced on the keyboard: Giuliano Pagliaro. In January 1995, JOURNEY THROUGH THE DARK revolutionaze their line-up, reducing themselves from 6 to 4 members, in connection with a stylistic evolution towards more atmospherical, more symphonic and gloomier sonority, and leaving the typical brutal American approach of the beginning. In March 1995 the debut-demo "Screams of Sirens" was released, a concentrate of dark death/black metal, which has received very good responses from fanzines and magazines and rousing the attention of several underground labels and taking part to various compilations, the most important of which is the CD Compilation "Dawn of Gods Vol. 1" on Metal Horse Prod. After different contacts, a deal was signed with Nosferatu Recs. for a MCD of Vampire Series, called "...Among Secrets", which was released on February 1997 and containing an original mix of death/black metal with dark and symphonic influences. The response are unanimously excellent and exciting. Actually the band is composing new stuff for a full-length CD, where macabre orchestral symphonic components will be exaltated in a black-oriented way. |