Biografie BIOGRAPHY of BLEED IN VAIN
(Known as "This Illusion" from the 2000 to the 2002)
The band started to play melodic death metal in the beginning of 2001, and it was formed by a screamer (Andrea), two guitarplayers (Enrico P and Enrico L), a bassplayer (Massimo) and a drummer (Simone). They all played at that time with other bands of the North-East of Italy such as Tanist, Burial Place, Abhor and the band, which still had no name, had to be considered a “fun band” in which the guys fulfilled their desire to play melodic death metal the swedish way.
But the things had to become much more serious soon; in july of 2002 the band choosed its monicker: THIS ILLUSION fitted perfectly with the band´s attitude and with the music they were going to play. In the same weeks, the band became a 6 piece act when Matteo (an old time friend of Enrico P) reached the band as third guitarplayer; the other guys were not sure this should be a real goalpoint for the band, since it´s quite hard to play three guitars together without sounding useless; THIS ILLUSION needed to sound like no other band around, not just with 2 guitars playing the same riff and with a solo-guitar to design melody. Matteo´s skills to play the guitar soon added the right “progressive” feeling to THIS ILLUSION music and the band composed (and riarranged) 6 songs in just 4 months. Unfortunately, the singer was no more involved in the project as the other 5 were, that´s because Andrea left the band and was replaced by Alessandro, a cool guy with the right attitude. With this line up the band started to play live, in the nearby zones around Venice and Padua, receiving a good feedback from the audience.
In April 2002 the band entered the No Brain Studios in Mirano (Venice) to record their first selfproduced MCD, called “Of Promises Decayed”; the recordings tooked 2 weeks and the band faced lots of problems to find out the right sound, mainly because of the three guitars, the vocals parts were recorded by Enrico L. . “Of Promises Decayed” is composed by 6 tracks sounding as a mixture of the swedish modern death metal like Soilwork and the alltime classic sound of At The Gates, with a little Dissection-like flavour. This MCD got outstanding reviews all around the world; THIS ILLUSION were acclaimed almost everywhere as a very promising band. The band became “International band of the month” of january on the worldwide known website www.swedishmetal.net and rated “Watch Out!” band of the month in March 2003 on the italian magazine “Metal Shock”; among the others, THIS ILLUSION got great reviews by Scream Magazine, Aardschock Magazine, Walls Of Fire, Haternal Magazine, Into Obscurity Webzine and so on. But sadly it was time for some other line up changes: since Alessandro´s voice was not the voice THIS ILLUSION were looking for, it was replaced by Enrico L´s screamings; the band had to find out a new guitarplayer and also a new drummer (Simone left the band a couple of months after the recordings of “Of Promises Decayed”). From the beginning of 2003 the line up of THIS ILLUSION is: Enrico P (rhythm guitar); Matteo (lead guitar); Davide (lead guitar); Enrico L (vocals); Giacomo (drums); Massimo (bass guitar). Soon after the amazing reviews of “Of Promises Decayed” the band was contacted with german metal label Voice Of Life Records, which offered the band a good deal that THIS ILLUSION signed at the end of March 2003. The band choosed to change name because of a possible misunderstanding with another Voice Of Life band whose name is DISILLUSION; the new monicker of the band is (and will hopefully ever be) BLEED IN VAIN. The recording of the first full lenght album of BLEED IN VAIN will begin in the first days of autumn 2003, for a possible release somewhere at the beginning of 2004.
BLEED IN VAIN will rehearse hard to compose some new songs to explore new sounds and to improve the impact of the three guitars, that are the important feature of the band by now.






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Quelle: http://www.bleedinvain.com/Discografie2002 - Of Promises Decayed

2004 - One Day Left
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