BiografieExcalion was born at December 2000 in Konnevesi, central Finland.
Keyboard player Jarmo �Jappe� Myllyvirta had written some melodic
power metal-style songs and began looking for a group to play his
ideas aloud. So it happened that four people gathered in a tiny
rehearsal room: Jappe, drummer Henri Pirkkalainen, bassist Timo
Sahlberg and guitarist Tero Vaaja. After some playing, some
chatting and some playing again, those four people realized that
they had a band. For reasons that have partly escaped everyone,
the band was named Excalion.

The next obvious task was to find someone to sing the songs.
Solution was near. Jarmo Pääkkönen was a guy known
of his big voice; Jarmo´s former band had recently split up, so he
was available to join the band.

Excalion played its first gig ever
in spring 2001 at Työväentalo, Konnevesi. Apart from Excalion´s
own songs, the setlist included Stratovarius covers and some
Nightwish songs without vocals (!) Soon after this Excalion
acquired its full line-up when Kimmo Hänninen, who had played
together with Jarmo before, joined the band as guitarist.

In autumn 2001 Excalion recorded their first demo called Forlorn.
This was done at Studio Kaktus near Jyväskylä, where they had
two days to record and mix three songs.

Army service of some of the band members and other
practical difficulties prevented Excalion to play gigs regularly.

Years 2002 and 2003 saw some
scattered gigs and reasonably hard rehearsing. Jappe also wrote
new songs with more detail and variety than before.
This was above all a time of learning how to be a band,
and growing together musically.

In autumn Excalion started to make their second demo,
this time with their own equipment and studio software.
The unwillingness to pay large fees for
studio time led the band to learn how to do things independently
and experiment. The demo was worked in short sessions all
the time through spring 2003.

This demo was convincing enough.
At the end of 2003 the band signed a deal with Sound Riot Records,
and the recording of Excalion´s debut album was fixed at Autumn 2004.
The tracks to be recorded included brand new songs written
during 2004 and some reworkings of the older songs.
The work was done at Studio Watercastle in Jyväskylä in September.Quelle: http://www.excalion.com/Discografie2005 Primal Exhale

2007 Waterlines

2010 High Time

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