ANCIENT BARDS

[~V~]

I fell in like with this band on the first listen.    From Italy, they are quite EPIC and definitely have a place here at ERR.



Biography

The Ancient Bards project takes its origin in the january of 2006 from the mind of the keyboards player Daniele Mazza, whose intent was to create a metal band with epic and symphonic sounds. After the meeting with the bass player Martino Garattoni the project began to materialize. Initially the line up was not stable beacuse of several problems, but in the summer of 2007, after a period of inactivity, the band found it’s final line up with Sara as singer, Claudio as solo guitarist, Fabio as rythm guitarist and Alessandro as drummer.  

The sextet imediately sarted working on the demo ep “Trailer” containing four excerpts of the exciting Black Crystal Sword Saga conceived by Daniele himself that is influenced from fantasy nordic tales and japanese stories like Final Fantasy.

During the realization of the demo, the bards were also busy performing in several Italian live contests from which they gained great results always reaching the first place.  In May 2008 Trailer was finished and was reviewed by many italian webzines and magazines always obtaining high marks.

In the meantime they were noticed by Emiliano Nanni, the president of the promotion and booking agency BRC (Bologna Rock City), that brought them on the stages on many italian live clubs supporting bands such as Turisas, Over The Rainbow, Almah, White Skull, etc. getting loads of success.

In the summer of 2009 the band recorded at Fear Studio in Ravenna it’s first full-length album that merges Sara Squadrani’s vocals with clean choral singalongs and heavy guitar sounds, to create an album teeming with ultra-catchy gems.

Up to now the path of the six bards has led them to sign with Limb Music Products (Rhapsody, Luca Turilli, Pagan’s Mind, Eldritch and many more).

The rest of the Ancient Bards’ adventure is still to be written…

lead vocals - Sara Squadrani
guitars - Fabio Balducci
keyboards - Daniele Mazza
guitars - Claudio Pietronik
bass - Martino Garattoni
drums - Allesandro Carichini

http://www.ancientbards.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ancientbards

[The Eagle Warrior]

They are tough looking guys. I am all for them on here. They don't have a bad sound at all.

[Oseriduun]

more female led bands? hehe...

is it a more gothy lower tones or more higher pitched muteable like old nightwish?

i'm almost afraid to check for myself these days, never know what will grace your ears.

[Feather]

Hm...I am liking this band as well Valerie 

Oser, its tolerable for your ears it's not like Old Nightwish at all pretty cool to listen to actually 

[~V~]

I really like this band!!!

[Omacron]

They seem to be growing on me, not bad music.

[Red43]

Their music is quite okay.....

Too bad I don't like the female singer  so it's not going to be in my library

[~V~]

more female led bands? hehe...

is it a more gothy lower tones or more higher pitched muteable like old nightwish?

i'm almost afraid to check for myself these days, never know what will grace your ears.

I would say that 99% of the music added, are male-fronted bands.

[The Eagle Warrior]

She is a good looking woman Red, good enough for me 

[Red43]

She is a good looking woman Red, good enough for me 

Lol...I knew you'd have strange taste Eagle    But hey...she's got plenty you can grab on 

[~V~]

She is a good looking woman Red, good enough for me  

Lol...I knew you'd have strange taste Eagle    But hey...she's got plenty you can grab on  

If I based my music-listening-pleasure on how a person in a band, looks.... I'd probably only have Kamelot in my music library... because alot of those mugs that perform their music for us, won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon.    

...and, I'm liking this band, more and more and....

[The Eagle Warrior]

LOL, good one V