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Conviction were formed in year 2002 by ex-Strikelight's (at that time) guitarist Nick Papakostas, Strikelight's Vocalist (at that time) Dionisis Sarakinis and Stelios Makris. Vaggelis Felonis (Overcast) joined the band. Conviction was a thrash metal band. They participated at many festivals such as Kallithea's "Heavy Metal Invasion", Crossroads (Onoma tou Rodou Club), Ston Aera Club, Moschato Music Festival and others...During 2002 and 2003 many changes appeared in the band's line-up...Nick left the band to rejoin Strikelight and Conviction played for the last time at the end of 2003...Back to the year 2006 and during Strikelight's rehearsals Nick and Manos (Strikelight's drummer - then...) jammed some riffs...After five minutes a song was composed...It was very fast and furious to be a Strikelight song. So Nick recorded this song for fun. The lyrics were inspired by Eat Metal Records philosophy. It was titled "Drink Metal". Truly accidentally Greg Varsamis (Eat Metal Records) heard the song. Through Greg a lot of people heard the song and the comments were very encouraging. George Hararis released a Heavy Metal Compilation CD and wanted Drink Metal. So they needed a name. Convixion it was. The band was active again. Nick recorded "Avenger", a second song that was composed by him and Manos. This song will be included in Kosta's Kousiouris second "Hellenic Forces " compilation CD. Until September 2006 five songs were recorded and Greg Varsamis decided to release a CD serie with the name "Metal Demo Series". Convixion's "Metal Drinkin Conspiracy" will be the first CD and will be propably released at about January. Until then, Convixion's songs are already known at a lot of people due to Greg's and Dj Hoho's (almost every Friday) support. Stelios Makris and Michael Bakoulas joined their forces. Meanwhile the band is writing new songs and is looking forward for some Metal Drinkin' LiveZ...Cheers...!