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Biography:
What’s
now Elisya comes up from different and various projects for a case made meeting
between Fomalhaut and Alfirk in Summer ’98.
Both
of Them , even if 21 , comes from different experience before Elisya:
Fomalhaut
, after 3 years of classic guitar turned to electric starting in 96 the goth
band Jack Of Spades , in which he stayed for abuot a year.
After
this experience he started in 97 the first incarnation of Elisya, a group with a
classic line up playing Death/Black metal in its pure form, and started to sing
as a growler/screamer. In this band he met Sheratan, who left the band due to
personal attriction some months later.
With
the changing line up and the continuous troubles in the band, Fomalhaut started
to change his musical perspective and to lose interest in a canonic form of
extreme metal.
In
June 98 the project Elisya was quitted.
Alfirk
studied classical guitar, and the turned electric and soon started teaching for
a local musical school.
He
played lead in various grind,death projects; like The Embelmed in which he
stayed quite long.
After
some time he become tired of playing the same old riffs and song patterns, and
left the band.
It’s
then they met, and decided to give life to a whole new band, mixing stiles and
influences .
Fomh
called Sheratan and found a Drummer, and the band started with the name Elisya.
In
mid December 98, they lost their drummer and choose to drop the few limits
remained in their music by devolving the drum patterns to pure electronic.
In
June ’99 they recorded Nexus Gemini, their first Mini/Demo, mixing it after
Holidays ,in September.
This
record is a good frame of the band musical ideas, even if it shows limits
especially due to the budget and to the
poor
instrumentation they had in their hands.
After
Nexus’ recordings, Elisya quitted the collaboration with Sheratan due to both
personal attriction and a lack of decision towards the new solutions the band
was planning.
Fomalhaut
and Alfirk, the compositive core of the group, never stopped trying new, so
they’re still working on the evolution they plotted for the band, adding more
rich arrangements and more various vocal lines by using clean vocals beside
screams and growls, keyboard shall be enhanced as well.
In 2001 they
started new material, the PROMO1 from the upcoming full length “Across”,
in which the band tried new solutions, clean vocals, although still in evolution,
besides the growl and scream, new chances for the employment of guitars and
effects, quickly becoming a trademark of the band. Also keyboards achieve a
different dimension both in the songwriting and in the arrangement of the
material.
In
the PROMO1 the band joined with the collaboration of a bass player that helped
compressing the rhythmical structure of the songs aiding the guitars and leaving
them free to explore most experimental sounds and lines.
After 2001 the band experienced troubled years due to personal
problems and paths of life of the band members. Elisya remains silent for 4 long
years and "Across" full lenght album was not released.but strongly was growing
alive in Fomalhaut
and Alfirk.
They go back to work with new ideas and passion in the end of
2004 and in Summer 2005 finally they recorded "ACROSS " mini CD, which is gonna
be out in Summer 2006 and it is a very good mirror of the high state
of health of Elisya.
After the recording of "ACROSS " Elisya didn't stop working
and they already have new songs on working, ready for the next full lenght
album, out 24/11/2006
In December 2006 after a proof
cooperation for a live show in Milan musician from italian
death metal band Deathjack join elisya:
Tiaz ( drums ) Bile ( bass ) Emperorfuck ( keyboards )
In 2007 and 2008 band is working on a
new album " Point of Ecstasy "
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