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BAND: Thunderstorm

Biografie

The Band´s roots date back to the earliest 90s, when Fabio "Thunder" Bellan starts a Classic Heavy Metal Band with a touch of Doom, and calls it "Thunderstorm". Afterwards the Band releases two demotapes ("Thunderstorm" and "Force of Evil"), which despite of their sourness, show a resolute and articulated sound.

In 1998, after several changes of Line-up, the Band splits up due to musical incompatibility. And in the fall of the same year, Fabio meets Massimo Tironi. The two have musical affinity and set up a new Band, Sad Symphony. Let Classic Metal apart, the Band aims at playing pure Doom Metal without any influence but Black Sabbath and their most recent "pupils" like Candlemass, Trouble and others.

In the spring of the following year, the first demotape "signed" Sad Symphony gets released, featuring only two tracks. Finally the Band finds a steady line-up with Omar on the bass. A few months later, the band changes monicker again, as it goes back to "Thunderstorm". Soon, some labels among which "Northwind Records", get interested in the gloomy and ossianic sound that Thunderstorm propose.

Finally, in june 2000, the Band signs for the same "Northwind Records" and enters the New Sin Studios in order to record their first album entitled "Sad Symphony" (like the old monicker). The release of Thunderstorm´s debut album is due to November in Italy and the earliest 2001 all over the rest of Europe. In November 2000 The band change the line-up: Sandro Mazzoleni joined it, as second guitarist in the band.Tironi, the drummer and the founder member with Fabio "Thunder" leave the band in January 2002. The same year the Band plays some gigs in Germany with a session,the drummer of a German doom-metal band called "Well of Souls".

In June 2002 the Band is ready to recording his second album, called "Witchunter Tales". The release is due to November 2002. The session-drummer on the album is Christian Fiorani, drummer of italian metal band "Drakkar". Finally, in October 2002 after various auditions, Thunderstorm find the definitive new drummer: Attilio Coldani. With this line up the band plays different European gigs and various festivals during 2003 (Summer Breeze,Rock Hard Festival,Headbangers Open Air, Doom Shall Rise) At the end of Summer Thunderstorm signs a multi-deal contract for italian label Dragonheart Records and during the Winter/Spring 2004 the band composes and recording (always to New Sin Studio) their third album titled "Faithless Soul". The release of third album is due to October 2004.

Quelle: http://www.thunderstorm-doom.com/frame.html

Discografie

1994 - Force of Evil (Demo)

1999 - Sad Symphony (Demo)

2001 - Sad Symphony

2003 - Witchunter Tales

2004 - Faithless Soul

2007 - As We Die Alone

2010 - Nero Enigma