In 2001 Marco Minno (keyboards), Daniele Penitenti (bass) and Luca Apuzzo (vocals) join themselves to form the“Visione Maxima†band. They just write some songs’s blueprints, with no defined shape. A few months later Fabrizio Oliva (rythm guitar and vocals) joins the band as lead and rythm guitarist but doesn’t pass much time that Mimma Pietrucci (bass) joins too taking the rythm guitar duties for herself. The band’s songs finally get shape and the sound begins to define in a mix of epic, dark atmospheres guided by thrashy guitars and filled with clean (Apuzzo) and growl vocals (Oliva) ; influences can be mainly found in Metallica, Blind Guardian and Amorphis. In 2003 Apuzzo quits (after having contributed with his lyric for the song Night Howl) and Oliva takes all the vocals duties; the band’s name is changed, and so NEUROSPHERE is born. After many drummer changes, none of which significant, Andrea Alberati (Lykaion) joins the band and so Neurosphere starts playing live. Due to a different musical evolution also Penitenti quits and Pietrucci replaces him; so once again Oliva takes lead, and rythm guitar duties. In 2004 Oliva and Minno (along with Alberati) join the friends Lykaion playing bass and keyboard respectively, and so the two bands coexhist with 3 members in common; this situation brings to the decision of mixing the bands in one, but due to different points of view the band splits again in NEUROSPHERE and Lykaion, causing the departed of Alberati that decides to follow Lykaion, after the recording of the “NEUROSPHERE – DEMO 2005â€, totally autoproduced.
Again with no drummer tha band continues in the writing process and after finding a lead guitarist in Daniele Guerrieri, cooperates with the “LMS Mod for Doom3†(winner at the IGF Awards as the best Doom3 Mod of the year) , with all the “DEMO 2005†songs plus the song LAST MAN STANDING, used as the Mod’s Soundtrack. Some months later Lorenzo Piancenti (drums) joins, so that NEUROSPHERE is complete again and ready to get back live.
Unfortunately the situation gets difficult again when Guerrieri decides to quit, but not much time later Alessandro Minno (lead guitar) joins in to replace Guerrieri...
