Origin: 2003
The band's history begins during the recording sessions of the first promo of HOLLOWEARTH, a power prog band made up of Angelo Musmeci, Fabiano Romagnoli, Cristian Antolini, Ivan Nastasi, Stuart Franzoni.
Just before debuting, three of us, Fabiano Angelo and Christian, decided to leave the band because of music disagreements, causing the following breaking up of it. We decided to dedicate ourselves to another project, characterized of a new death-metal taste, abandoning the melodic vein peculiarity of the previous Hollowearth period.
During the spring we started to compose the songs of our debut-promo entitled "EVOLUTION PLAN.TXT" with the monicker Lunarsea, Made up of 4 songs, recorded during the summer in the Music Farm Studio of Fabiano and finished in the early October 2003.
After the launching to webzines, record companies and so on, and after finding a general approval of our work, we realized that this band could mean something new in the underground movement of melodic death metal, but we needed to personalize more our sound to make Lunarsea really unique.
By the way we still a Melodic Death Metal band and our primary effort is to make good music and not to create a new way of melodeath. We have our influences and we are happy to try to make music by ourselves like great band have done in past when we was teenager!
Thus we dedicated ourselves to the composition of new songs, trying new different harmonic structures, made up of melodic Death-metal core, and blast beat parts combined with clean vocals, and some progressive-synth elements. Following this new conception of style, we birth the second promo entitled "BIO ASHESH HALO", made up of 4 songs and a cover by Police.
After one year, we get in touch with BURNING STAR RECORDS, a greek label that offer us a contract for the release of our debut album. So, after some months spent in re-record the previous promos and a couple of new songs, in April 2006 we release "HYDRODYNAMIC WAVE", out worldwide by different distributors. We was in Athens for a Promotiomal Tour, where we were interviewed by locals magazines and radios and also we got the opportunity to make a Pre-listening party in the famous TEXAS CLUB.
Burning Star Records helped us to spread our music all over the world with a good distribution in such country like U.S.A and JAPAN and many good reviews were written from web-zines and magazines.
That was the time were we shoot our first video ever, from the song BESIDE THE DRIVER, directed by Federico Ferrari.
After the Release of HYDRODYNAMIC WAVE we started our Live activity and we got the oppurtunities to play in such Festival like the Italian GODS OF METAL(edition 2007) or the Greek METAL HEALING FESTIVAL taked place in Xanthi on 21 july 2007. Also we played a couple of gigs outside Italy, like on November 2006 at BUDAPEST(hungary) or at BURNING STAR FESTIVAL at Uderworld club in ATHENS(greece) on February 2007
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In 2008 we sign a contract with italian label Punishment 18 Records for the release of our second album called ROUTE CODE SELECTOR out on 2009 and we sign with several promotion agency such KICK AGENCY,NADIR MUSIC,MACHADA PROMOTION to have the maximum visibility all over magazine,internet site etc.
During this time we shot our second video from the song METAMORPHINE, directed by Federico Ferrari.
We start a several campaign of live both in Italy and other country like Slovenia,Germany,Greece,Cezch Republic.
We have share the stage with band like Darkane-Sinister-Dark Funeral-Rage-Impaled Nazarene-Leave's Eye-Orphaned Land-Obscura-Nargaroth-Ektomorf-Insomnium-The Haunted-Primal Fear,God Dethrone,Nightrage,Ceptic Flesh,Firewind etc, and we have been chosen directly thru Century Media Contest to be the italian opener for Dark Tranquillity where death is most alive tour partII, in theyr italian gigs.
We are currently working on our Third Full-Lenght schedule again from Punishment 18 Records on May 2013!
Next album will be a Concept Album.
Actual Line-up:
Daniele Biagiotti - Vocals
Fabiano romagnoli - Guitars and Synth
Emiliano Pacioni - Guitars
Cristian Antolini - Bass and Vocals
Alfonso Corace - Drums
We will never forget FRANCESCO MARTINO who was our drummer for a short period of time, amd now he's watching us from heaven. God bless you brother.
Past Members: Angelo Musmeci(Vocals 2003-2006) , Claudio Testini (Drummer 2004-2006) , Alessio Colonna (Drummer 2007), Filippo Palma (Vocals 2006-2010)
