Daedalus is an Italian
progressive metal band.
Their music contains influences from different
musical genre
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s, among them rock,
progressive rock,
heavy metal, classical music,
jazz,
electronic music, ''
ambient
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Music and sound
* Ambience (sound recording), also known as atmospheres or backgrounds
* Ambient music, a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere
* ''Ambient'' (album), by Moby
* ...
''.
History
Daedalus was born in
Genoa (Italy) in 2000, as the result of a project started by Fabio Gremo. In October 2003 the Italian label
New LM Records published the first album of the band, ''
Leading Far from a Mistake''. Since 2004 the band had gigs in several Italian and foreign concert halls, also as
opening act
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for well known metal bands like
DGM,
Daemonia (
Claudio Simonetti
Claudio Simonetti (born 19 February 1952) is an Italian musician and film composer. He moved with his family from Brazil to Italy at the age of 11. The keyboardist of the progressive rock band Goblin, Simonetti has specialized in the scores for I ...
), Twinspirits (Daniele Liverani), Misfits (band), Misfits and Extrema (band), Extrema.
The works on the second album ''The Never Ending Illusion'' were completed in 2008. Roland Grapow (Helloween, Masterplan (band), Masterplan) made the Audio mixing (recorded music), mixing, while Mark Wilkinson (who worked among the others for Marillion, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest) drew the cover art, artwork.
Official Mark Wilkinson website
. The album, featuring Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth (band), Labyrinth) and Alessandro Corvaglia as guests, was published by the Swiss label Galileo Records in January 2009.[Official Galileo Records website]
Good reviews were published about it on several musical magazines (''Metal Hammer'', ''Rock Hard'' and ''Metal Maniac (magazine), Metal Maniac'') and webzines. On 7 November 2009 Daedalus played live at Z7 (festival), Z7 in Pratteln (Basel) during the festival organized by Galileo Records for the 10th anniversary of the label.[
The band completed the recordings of the third album, ''Motherland (Daedalus album), Motherland'', which has been mixed by Roland Grapow. Trevor (singer), Trevor (Sadist (band), Sadist) and Elisa Montaldo (Il Tempio delle Clessidre) appear as guests respectively as vocalist and main keyboardist. The cover art, artwork has been drawn by Nerve Design (Threshold (band), Threshold, Extrema (band), Extrema, Vision Divine, Sadist (band), Sadist). The album is distributed by Galileo Records and Gonzo Multimedia starting from 2 May 2011. A promotional music video has been made for the song ''Until You're Here''.
Spanò died on August 26th, 2021, due to a boat incident in Porto Pollo, Sardinia.
]
Band members
Current members
*Fabio Gremo – Bass guitar, Backing vocals (2000–)
*Davide La Rosa – Drums, Backing vocals (2003–)
*Davide Merletto – Lead vocals (2006–)
*Andrea Torretta – Guitar, Guitars, Backing vocals (2004–)
*Sandro Amadei – Synthesizer, Keyboards (2011–)
Former members
*Giuseppe Spanò – Keyboards (2000–2010)
*Andrea Rinaldi – Guitars (2000–2004)
*Alessio Brunetti – Lead vocals (2002–2004)
*Luca D'Angelo – Lead vocals (2004–2005)
Discography
* '' Leading Far from a Mistake'' – 2003
* ''The Never Ending Illusion'' – 2009
* ''Motherland (Daedalus album), Motherland'' – 2011
Notes
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References
* Gremo, Fabi
Daedalus – The Official Site
(Retrieved November 2009)
External links
Official Daedalus websiteOfficial Myspace pageOfficial Facebook pageOfficial video
Italian progressive metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 2000
Musical quintets