Our debut album Flowing Portraits turns 15 years old today!

Phew, time flies! On our social network we asked if you have any particular sweet memory related to this very album, so please join the discussion there!

Oh, and please… watch out for something here on April 7! 🙂

This year has been filled with obstacles to overcome and challenges for all of us to face.It really seems that humanity is going through another of its “bad moments”.

As on many other occasions, art is probably an answer to all of this: if our music has managed to distract even one of you for the duration of a song, our intent has been achieved.

During this 2022 we have silently done what we like most, play our instruments and create something new. We had the opportunity, continuing the auditions, to play with outstanding drummers and finally find our travel companion who we can’t wait to officially present to you and let you listen to on the new record.

Speaking of the new album, 7 tracks are complete and smoking hot while the rest are already in the works.

During these holidays we have had the opportunity to meet all together and review the work done so far and we have never had such a positive feeling.

The first day of 2023 is upon us and we want to greet it with this image, taken while listening to the demo of our next album: six friends, sitting together to drink, joke, and listen to music.

Happy New Year to you all!

Our newest album BLUE LIGHT CAGE turns two today!

We love every little bit of it and we can’t wait to finally play it live somewhere sometime. We’re working on it, as we’re VERY busy with the writing of the next one. Bear with us 🙂

Remember you can purchase BLUE LIGHT CAGE and some related goods directly from our shop by clicking HERE or in the menu bar.

We’re thrilled to announce our forthcoming album MUSIC THAT SLAPS, featuring physical violins and slap bass solos!

Check the cover artwork below by Will Rock and Chris Smith!

Chasing Next is out now! It is the first single from Luca’s instrumental solo album THE 2nd COMING set to release both physical and digital under Lion Music on January 14, 2022.

You can read more on this song on his personal website at https://www.lucadigennaro.com/?p=381

Enjoy the videoclip below!

Our keyboard player Luca Di Gennaro has some news for you!

His debut solo album THE 2nd COMING will be released on January 14, 2022 under Lion Music Record Label (Marco Sfogli, Vitalij Kuprij etc.).

It’s an atypical instrumental prog album so full of influences and genres, featuring amazing musicians like David Wise, Alfonso Mocerino, Maria Barbieri, Stefano Festinese and also our beloved guitar maestro Francesco “FRNKC” Cavezza!

A video for the first single CHASING NEXT will be published in less than two weeks on December 16, 2021.

Read more on Luca’s official website www.lucadigennaro.com

Our second album Closer To Daylight is 10 years old!

It marks a fundamental step-stone in the history of the band, as it’s the first album with Claudio on bass. We met him when most of the album was already written, but we decided to almost re-write it with him on board to create a continuity with the albums to come.

Two guest stars joined us on this: Arno Menses and Marco Sfogli.

Getting in touch with Arno Menses for Closer To Daylight

Before changing singer (Michele quit the band for health reasons, asked us to find a new singer and we found Fabio), we already decided to have a guest singer on the epic suite Aftermath. One of our ideas was to contact Neal Morse, so our manager Davide started mailing with him. He liked the song but he was too busy with all of his projects so he couldn’t make it. Another idea was to contact the former Sieges Even and actual Subsignal singer Arno Menses. His voice was just perfect for the song and luckily he accepted to perform the task! His work on the song really brought it to another level, as he wrote the whole vocal line and the backings on that one.

… and getting in touch with Marco Sfogli

When deciding who should have played the guitar solo on River’s Edge, some of us proposed John Mitchell but then Luca had an idea: why not asking to Marco Sfogli? He’s one of the most recognized guitar player in the world, plus he’s just some kilometers away from our hometown. We asked him and he gladly accepted, we met him, brought him in our studio, we made him personally listen to the track and had a pleasant chat. Some days after that meeting we had the best solo we could ever wished for! He was so kind to give us also this video of a live play-through:

So, just some anecdotes to share and to give the warmest of greetings: happy birthday Closer To Daylight! You’re “closer to” 11 now.