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Klimt1918 waa born from
the ashes of Another Day, unlucky act from Rome, Italy, which many of you out
there will certainly
remember, since authors of the brilliant début demo "Youth (the castle of
illusions)", tape that obtained favourable opinions on a good
part of the specialized musical magazines of that period. It was 1996 and the band proposed a
fairly good death-doom merely of English school, with strong references to bands
such as My
Dying Bride and the early Anathema.
In 1997 Another Day sign
for the label 'Gardens of Grief Rec.' and prepare to unleash their mini
debut mini-Cd, "Fireworks Outside (Black
butterflies over the petals of the sun)" which, due to several problems with the phantom label above-mentioned, unfortunately
will never see the light... of the day.
A year later, after having brought some changes into the line-up (above all the
entrance at drums of Paolo Soellner, former-guitarist Marco's brother), Another Day
record a new promo entitled "Be nothing but a bit of cold" but in October 1999, after
some months of agony,
the band splits up.
The reasons of the split are
several. First of all the conflict born about the
musical path to follow. Bass-player Adriano Neri doesn't particularly like the progressive softening of
the new compositions: he's the member of the band much more devoted to the artistic
proposal of the first hour and namely technical and complex death metal, very long songs
and growling vocals. The idea of music for Marco couldn't be farther than what
proposed in the debut demo instead. In addition to
Katatonia,
Opeth, October Tide,
Anathema and Beyond Dawn, all bands belonging to the metal sphere, has already
started listening to different material since
time, asbolutely distant
from the heavy
sonorities of the past. He discovers Beatles, immortal songs as 'While my guitar gently
weeps', 'Something', 'Lucy
in the Sky with Diamond', 'Eleonor Rigby', which
make him understand how possible can be expressing a lot even writing a song
containing a few verses, a few riffs and a central refrain. He remains ravished by
that old style approach, always efficient and expressionist of making music and
everything considered thinks that, except some rare example (Katatonia and some songs of
Anathema), the bands that he listens don't apply to that form song, concetrating
themselves on the construction
of complicated riffs, marvellously harmonius, but of course after all not much
involving. Therefore his
first aim, once the adventure of Another Day is over, is creating a new musical project able to sum up the musical suggestions of
avantgarde, Scandinavian & English doom metal with the immediacy of pop.
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