Abstract Symphony

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The history of Abstract Symphony begins at the end of 2001 in the city of San Antonio, Chile. The band started out as an Yngwie Malmsteen tribute band, the first band members were:

Esteban Hulloa V. ( guitars ), Sebastian Pontigo ( drums ), Andres Valdez ( bass ), Carlos Muñoz ( guitars ). Searching for musicians in a town like San Antonio was very difficult because of the type of music we wanted to play, finding a vocalist and a keyboard player was difficult .After finding the right musicians, Felipe Jeriaon vocals and Eduardo Góngora ..boards, the band starts to play a lot in San Antonio and all around the bay area in the year 2002. In early 2003 Sebastian, Andres and Carlos parted ways with the band, Sebastian moves to Santiago, Carlos to Valparaiso and Andres to Iquique.

Esteban Hulloa decides to put an end to the tribute an starts to write his own material, most of the songs were written in 2003 and early 2005. After various auditions and a lot of line up changes the band finally has an stable line up with David Rebolledo on drums( ex Endriago , Santiago based band ), Juan Andres Oyaneder on bass and Esteban HulloaCastro on guitars (ex Ring of Steel).

This line up plays in various Metal Maniaks fests with bands such as Witchblade , Harmony, Massacre, Valkiria , Steelrage , Baco and Pagan Poetry and some local bands in between 2003 and early 2006 . In 2005 the band parted ways with our keyboard player and our drummer Eduardo and David to replace this 2 musicians audition were made (once again) JJ Roldán ..board (ex Purgatory) and on drum Matias Perez (ex ring of steel). In early 2006 the band begins to record a total of 10 songs. After the drums were recorded Matias and Felipe parted ways with the band because of musical differences .The band concentrates 100% in recording what would later became our EP Infinite Desire. Not having a drummer and vocalist the rest of the band starts auditioning musicians .From more than 15 vocalist from all around Santiago and Valparaiso we decide to leave the Santiago based Marcelo Carvajal who later recorded the vocals on all the 6 song from the EP in mid 2007 finishing recording, mixing and mastering of the EP by late November.

The first 6 songs were recorded and we decided to release it as an EP. Uploading the EP to be downloaded for free on the internet. The EP quickly started to going around from blog to blog and forums and web pages, having almost 1000 downloads in nearly 2 months only on one of the formats uploaded ( Zshare ) not counting the other formats that were uploaded by other blogs that don’t keep count. Our demo was written produced and recorded by Esteban Hulloa , cover art work by JJ Roldán , cover concept by JJ and Esteban.

With higher expectation the band expects to record their debut LP . After that we decided to contact our first drummer Sebastian Pontigo who in the last five years has been studying drums at Escuela Moderna de Música and after listening to the Demo, he decides to become part of Abstract Symphony again.

Right now the band is rehearsing and putting the finishing touches for was to become their first professional LP.

A big thanks to all the blogs, forums, and web sites who have supported us in such a short time and off course our fans who downloaded the EP.