Ancient Bards

 Today in 2011 Ancient Bards released the album Soulless Child

Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Symphonic Power Metal

Status:Active

Years active: 2006-present

The Ancient Bards project takes its origin in the january of 2006 from the mind of the keyboards player Daniele Mazza, whose intent was to create a metal band with epic and symphonic sounds. After the meeting with the bass player Martino Garattoni the project began to materialize. Initially the line up was not stable beacuse of several problems, but in the summer of 2007, after a period of inactivity, the band found it’s final line up with Sara as singer, Claudio as solo guitarist, Fabio as rythm guitarist and Alessandro as drummer. The sextet imediately sarted working on the demo ep “Trailer” containing four excerpts of the exciting Black Crystal Sword Saga conceived by Daniele himself, that is influenced from fantasy nordic tales and japanese stories like Final Fantasy. During the realization of the demo, the bards were also busy performing in several Italian live contests from which they gained great results always reaching the first place. In May 2008 Trailer was finished and was reviewed by many italian webzines and magazines always obtaining high marks. In the meantime they were noticed by Emiliano Nanni, the president of the promotion and booking agency BRC (Bologna Rock City), that brought them on the stages on many italian live clubs supporting bands such as Turisas, Over The Rainbow, Almah, White Skull, etc. getting loads of success. In the summer of 2009 the band recorded at Fear Studio in Ravenna it’s first full-length album that merges Sara Squadrani's vocals with clean choral singalongs and heavy guitar sounds, to create an album teeming with ultra-catchy gems. Up to now the path of the six bards has led them to sign with Limb Music Products (Rhapsody, Luca Turilli, Pagan’s Mind, Eldritch and many more!). The rest of the Ancient Bards’ adventure is still to be written…

Limb Music

Martino Garattoni Bass, Vocals (choirs)

Claudio Pietronik Guitars

Fabio Balducci Guitars

Sara Squadrani Vocals, Vocals (choirs)

Daniele Mazza Keyboards, Vocals (choirs)

Federico Gatti Drums

Guest/Session

Joseph Spiller Vocals (choirs)

Chiara Delvecchio Vocals (choirs)

Claudia Saponi Vocals (choirs)

Giorgia Palmerini Vocals (choirs)

Claudia Rivoli Vocals (choirs)

Ala Ganciu Vocals (choirs)

Raffaella Ceccarelli Vocals (choirs)

Fabrizia Conti Vocals (choirs)

Maria Letizia Sassaroli Vocals (choirs)

Maria Luisa Cenci Vocals (choirs)

Giambattista Volpones Vocals (choirs)

Edoardo Canducci Vocals (choirs)

Michele Canducci Vocals (choirs)

Giovanni Frison Vocals (choirs)

Roberto Coffee Vocals (choirs)

Gian Maria Vocals (additional) (track 9), Vocals (choirs)

Simone Mularoni Guitars (acoustic) (tracks 5, 10), Vocals (choirs)

1. Struggle for Life 01:53

2. To the Master of Darkness 07:33

3. Gates of Noland 05:13

4. Broken Illusion 05:11

5. All That Is True 09:55

6. Valiant Ride 04:13

7. Dinanzi al flagello 01:29

8. Soulless Child 09:15

9. Through My Veins 07:19

10. Hope Dies Last 14:31 01:06:32

Japanese Bonus track:

11. The Skies Above (Final Fantasy X - Zanarkand's Theme) (03:07)

All music and lyrics written by Daniele Mazza.

"The Black Crystal Sword Saga" written by Daniele Mazza.

Logo design by Flush Design.

Recording information:

Recorded at Domination Studio between June and July 2011.

Mixed and Mastered at Domination Studio.

Produced by Ancient Bards.