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Implosion started as a band in 2002.After giving several shows in Thessaloniki in various clubs playing mostly covers of their favorite bands, the band decided to record a demo of 3 songs. The demo made quite an impact on the local progressive metal community and received very good reviews (even got to be "Demo of the month" in Metal Hammer Greece). At that time band members were the same as now, with Pericles Hamalides as the bass player and Chris Fotiades as the lead singer.During the next years, the band continued to play live and focused on writing songs in order to release a full-length album. In 2006 the band started to record their songs for their debut album, and it was also the time when Pericles left the band due to military obligations, and was replaced by Argiris Tsangalidis.After 2 years of recording, mixing and line-up changing, Implosion have finally released their debut album "Lucidity In Quietus" through local indie label Steel Gallery Records, recorded and mixed in the band's own studio by the band's keyboard player Tasos Korkovelos and mastered at Finnvox Studios,Finland by Mika Jussila. The band's sound is influenced by progressive metal monsters, like Dream Theater, Fates Warning, Pain Of Salvation but also other metal bands like Nevermore, Pantera and Machine Head. Appearing on a masterful bass solo on "Temptation" is the great Kristoffer Gildenlow (Dial, ex-Pain of Salvation). Due to personal reasons and during the recordings of the album in 2007, Chris Fotiades left the band so the band's debut album vocals were recorded by the band's keyboard player and producer, Tasos Korkovelos.As of today, Implosion are in "hybernation mode" as the band's guitarist Alex Papoulidis is doing his military service in Greece, while the keyman/vocalist is off to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music. But in any given opportunity the band will perform for their fans, whenever and wherever that may be!

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Member Since: 30/08/2006
Band Members: Alex Papoulidis - Guitars
Tasos Korkovelos - Vocals & Keyboards
Kostas Anagnostou - Drums
Argiris Tsagalidis - Bass

Influences: Dream Theater
Symphony-X
Pain Of Salvation
Fates Warning
Pantera
Nevermore

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Record Label: Steel Gallery Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Lucidity In Quietus available on Amazon and eMusic!

Hello again!Just a quick update to inform you that the digital version of "Lucidity In Quietus" is now available for download at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Lucidity-in-Quietus/dp/B001L80Z6Y/ref ...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:18:00 GMT

Lucidity In Quietus available on iTunes!!

Hello all!Just letting you know that our debut cd "Lucidity In Quietus" is available at Apple iTunes Storefor downloading ($9.99).You can download the entire album, or each track separately ($0.99-exc...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:23:00 GMT

Ordering info for US fans...

Hello all!Just a quick piece of info concerning US fans, you can acquire our CD through REVERSE SPHERE (http://www.myspace.com/reversesphere), and that includes free shipping!Take care!
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:56:00 GMT

"Lucidity In Quietus" available on CD Baby!

Hello everyone!We are pleased to announce that our debut album "Lucidity In Quietus" is available for purchasing through CD Baby, both in physical ($15) and digital ($9.99) formats.The link is http://...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:55:00 GMT

FREE IMPLOSION CD contest!!! Details here....

Reverse Sphere Promotions posted a sampler of IMPLOSION "Lucidity In Quietus" cd for FREE download. Download the sampler and listen over and over..if you love what you hear please message me your thou...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:48:00 GMT

Profile updates!

Hello!We've just uploaded 6 songs from our freshly released debut album "Lucidity In Quietus", three of them you've already heard as they were featured on the promo ("Anguish In Me", "Holy Sin" and "T...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:32:00 GMT

Debut cd out

Hello everybody!The bands debut album, Lucidity In Quietus is finally available through the bands myspace.All you have to do is send us a message with your address, and you will receive the cd in a be...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:09:00 GMT

Implosion sign a deal with Steel Gallery Records!

Implosion finally signed a record deal with Steel Gallery records!The band's debut cd, Lucidity In Quietus, is going to be released on September 2008. If anyone's interested, you can orded the album f...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:37:00 GMT

Review of Promo 2007 in Lords of metal (NL)

Winston: Greece is a country where metal is rejuvenated. On a regular base new bands are introduced to the world. Implosion is one of them. With the traditional influences of Dream Theater, Fates Warn...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:57:00 GMT

A Review of Promo 2007

Hello again, we just got our first review of Promo 2007 by metalperspective.com Metal Perspective Review Implosion - "Promo 2007" [Self-financed, 2007] Implosion - Promo 2007 Tracklist: 01....
Posted by on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:32:00 GMT