PROLOUD

The band was formed in the winter of 1996 by founder members Emi Pierro on drums and Michele Zanni on bass. The PROLOUD had added Marco Donello (Keyboards) and Emanuele Ghedini (guitar). The singer Giancarlo Mattei (founder member of power metal band called ABIGHOR) joined the band in the November of 1997. A few months later, Cristian Zezza replaced Emanuele, and together the new line-up, embarked on mini-tour of the Emilia (Italy). Midway throught of the 1999, they recorded the first demo-CD "Fickle". The CD includes 3 - tracks (24 minutes) and received many fabulous reviews (MS nr.295)(reviews). Indeed, "Fickle" combines lots of elements of what's best in Progressive Metal. On July, 2000 the song "Last Inhabited Planet" was produced in a studio and a new version of Fickle enreached with this new winning idea was issued. It was this "Promo" that convinced the label Iridea Records to engage the Proloud under a contract and manage their discografic beginning. In march 2001 the band completed to record the "full lenght" which will be put officially on the market only in June 2002, due to some delay in the renewal of the discographic label , which is now SUBLIME LABEL. "Rebuilding", this is its title, consists of 9 songs for one hour amusing music. Its magnific cover will put into result the 5 italian musicians quality both of their contents and executions.