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| Bio of the Artist |
X-Piral were originally formed in 2000 by Nick Papanikolaou (lead guitars) and Dimitris Marinis (Synth & Piano), which have known each other from previous bands. Petros Hatzibiros, friend of both of them, was assigned with the rhythm guitar and Lazaros Damanis the vocals. The first drummer joins a few weeks later. Antonis Petridis (700 Machines) was a really skilful and technical drummer.
With this line up, a demo CD was recorded entitled Perfect Lies, at Graffiti Studios on February of 2000. Bass guitar was recorded by Nick Papanikolaou as the band didn't have a bassist at that time. The result was not satisfying enough and the CD never got to the public. Antonis left the band to join 700 Machines as he never really was into the Heavy-Power metal we were trying to build, and as we were disappointed from our recording attempt, the band splits up.
After several months, Nick and Dimitris, decided to give it one more try, so we went on searching for new members to rebuild the band, this time under the name Shadow Play. Petros took once again the rhythm guitar and the search for a vocalist had begun. An old friend of Dimitris, Michael Apostolakis, finally took this place, with a voice fitted for he band's songs, having a weird brutality, and also high notes which we needed. We started, rehearsing the songs from our Demo, with some changes, first in Nick's room, until a drummer showed up and we entered the studio. The drummer was Tolis Makrantonakis, who had a past in some known bands in Thessaloníki, and was skillful enough to play the up beat tracks.
The band remained without a bass player until opportunities for live shows appeared and bassist Kostas Liapis joined the group. The band gave some live shows for a couple of months, until it was realised that there was enough material to start the recordings for a promo CD, which eventually turned out to be a full debut album.
At that time Kostas leaves the band as his musical orientation was totally different and he wasn't satisfied. The band wished him the best and he parted in a most friendly atmosphere. In the summer of 2003 the band entered Power Studios, under the guidance and support of George Stratakis (Rust), and began recordings.
2 months later and a while after the drum recordings were over, Tolis leaves the band. This was a rather difficult time as all the financial burdens were placed upon 4 people. Soon after, also Petros leaves the band, due to musical differences and the recordings stop in order to organize the financial part.
In October of 2003 the recordings started again until February of 2004, when Dimitris left for studies in Italy. Fortunately the band had all the time for Nick to record all bass, rhythm, acoustic and lead guitars and Dimitris to complete keyboards recordings. During the 6 months that Dimitris was away, some of the vocals were recorded but there was no activity due to lack of free time. In the summer of 2004, Dimitris got back and all the vocals were finished until September when the band began mixing the material.
By the time everything was almost finished it was discovered that another band has copyrighted the name Shadow Play and the band name changed to X-Piral.
That was when Giannis Georgopoulos of Burning Star Records contacted the band and after discussion of 2 weeks, it ended up with a deal and a contract.
In February 2005 Poison Eyes was finally out in the shops. Reviews began emerging, some good, some bad, but in general X-Piral had made a good entrance to the music scene.
The music of X-Piral was a combination of 80's Heavy metal with 00's European Power Metal, also featuring some female vocals, which sounds interesting enough.
So with new strength and a label to help, X-Piral found new members, Thanos Tzanetopoulos (Inactive Messiah) on guitars, Makis Petritsis (Wheelrunner) on bass guitar, and Fragisos Samoilis on Drums. All of them are dedicated musicians and metalheads, with their own influences, working hard to build the new sound of X-Piral.
Now X-Piral have almost finished 12 new tracks to be included in the 2nd album, and still composing more. The musical direction is more complicated as 6 musicians with entirely different influences formed these tracks. One can hear Power Metal, Thrash, Rock, Classic Heavy metal, influences from Finnish scene, Scandinavian, American and all this combined with new sound in the instruments. Vocals are not using so much their high notes, which is the most overused capability of singers, but concentrate in low and middle notes, making it more solid.
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Album Lyrics:
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Steel Tears
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Running fast through wastelands,
Devoured all by your kind.
Smell of death around me,
And tears flood my eyes.
I gaze down the horizons,
There’s no sun to shine.
Earth now is screaming,
And I feel drowned my life.
I feel the end is near,
From your machinery.
I see steel tears are,
Glowing shine eternally.
Come and see the world is burning,
Doomsday now has come.
Run and hide from your creation,
They all have come to life.
I see your blackened soul fades,
Dust it leaves behind.
And my mind exploding,
Cannot stand your crimes.
I feel the end is near,
Our mother now she dies.
I feel her tears are falling,
Like raindrops in the night
Come and see the world is burning,
Cleansed in fire and ice.
Come and see, steel tears are falling,
Piercing my mind.
Crawling In Your Minds
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Sitting here I watch mankind,
Living in a land of fears,
Drowning in a lake of tears,
Live their lives on cries
Sitting here I feel your pain,
I see the scars upon your arms,
I touch the darkness of your hearts,
I know your life is all in vain.
Crawling in your minds, I have touched your souls,
Emptiness is what I found.
Crawling in your hearts, I have found your goals,
Cruelty and lust they shout.
But now I ran away from here,
From the land of fear and tear,
Running fast inside the night,
A beam of light I’ll try to find.
Can’t find your goals and so do you,
I think of you as a mindless corpse,
For me some ale is quite enough,
In songs to live my life.
Crawling in your minds, I have touched your souls,
Emptiness is what I found.
Crawling in your hearts, I have found your goals,
Cruelty and lust they shout.
Metal Storm
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Power and steel demolishing rage,
Glory of metal I’ll take to my grave.
Baptized in fire, forged in the heat,
Be ready to taste the force of my fist.
Metal Storm
Clouds gathered near, cracked is the sky,
Metal beasts rising to fight by my side.
Red eyes of anger spilling your blood,
Metallic axes rip out your heart.
Metal Storm
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Riding on the winds of a metal storm
With power and fury I’ll smash down your world
Thunder and lightning over my head
By flames made of metal you shall be cleansed
We’re all standing tall never to fall,
All now united to conquer the world.
Our warcries are heard our hands we raise high,
By power of metal we ride to the sky.
Metal Storm
Born in a metal
Baptized in a metal
Ride on a metal storm
Poison Eyes
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Come inside I’ll show you my life,
My personal hell that you have made.
Twisted brain you’ve poison eyes,
Buried in your pretty face.
You’ve burned down a part of me,
Maybe better now this way.
Beware! The time’s now closer,
The time has come for you to pay.
Poison Eyes.
Staring down a thousand cries
Sinfull Eyes.
Vomiting a hundred lies
Time to pay my beloved one,
Now your sins tears you apart.
Bloody dreams in haze you’re lost,
Your heart is pounding in the cold.
Magic flames your soul they shatter,
I’m the wizard the spell caster,
The time is coming meet your doom,
Come and face the endless gloom
Poison Eyes.
Staring down a thousand cries
Sinfull Eyes.
Vomiting a hundred lies
Die for your sins,
Cry for your life,
Pay for my dreams,
Pray now it’s time.
Come to me and feel me
And all those tears, I’ve been
Shedding for you all those years,
I’ve been lonely.
Winds of despair,
Blow strong tonight,
Shattering my life,
A lifetime of lies.
Desire now burning,
Desire now burning,
Desire now burning,
Desire now burning.
Winter Skies
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The morning wind comes through my hair
A magic spell so simple,
Drops of rain come down on me
The gift of life so feeble
Is it so hard for us to believe?
Trust our inner voice.
Will this be the end of time?
Do we have a choice?
Winter Skies so pale and cold
Winter Skies so vague and bold
Like an eagle to the rainbow fly
Spread up your wings on a cold winter sky.
My eyes filled with sorrow as a stare the sea
And tears slowly falling revealing my grief
The dragons the elves they all do exist
But all remain hidden feared by our greed
Winter Skies so pale and cold
Winter Skies so vague and bold
Like an eagle to the rainbow fly
Spread up your wings on a cold winter sky.
Plains Of Perfection
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Running your life through boredom and pain,
Searching for light through thunder and rain,
The plains of perfection never you’ll reach,
For empty words always you preach.
Speaking of justice but justice is lost,
Speaking of honor a thing they ignore,
Grown old but nothing you’ve learned,
Crawling you’ll pray when near is the end.
The rivers the valleys the seas and the hills,
Wonders of earth that you want to kill,
Proud for crimes you smile out and laugh,
But earth will avenge may god be with us.
Speaking of justice but justice is lost,
Speaking of honor a thing they ignore,
Grown old but nothing you’ve learned,
Crawling you’ll pray when near is the end.
The woods that we burn and seas we pollute,
Avenging their death, their ghost we salute,
Mankind repeating mistakes it has done,
Forever repeating ‘till this world is gone,
And when every single tree we have burned,
And lake to toxical waste we have turned,
Will be the day when alone we’ll crawl,
Our souls are rotten downway we fall..
Speaking of justice but justice is lost,
Speaking of honor a thing they ignore,
Grown old but nothing you’ve learned,
Crawling you’ll pray when near is the end.
Fifteen Years Of Lies
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At first in a castle,
But not as a king.
It became a jewel,
But not in a ring.
Said it was in fear,
But not in fright,
Felt like is some tears,
But not as I have cried.
Appeared like a ghost,
But not from the dead.
It became a nightmare,
But not as I was slept.
Try, I’m trying to find a way,
Lies and sorrow thrown away.
Try, I’m trying to fly away,
Fifteen years of lies now are burned away.
Seemed like an enigma,
But not in a mystery.
My fate they try to guide,
Fifteen years I’m forced to hide.
Said it was a serpent,
But it can also fly.
I think it is a dragon,
And it will never die.
They say it was for me,
Bur I was never involved.
Seems all is a mystery,
Yet to be solved.
Try, I’m trying to find a way,
Lies and sorrow thrown away.
Try, I’m trying to fly away,
Fifteen years of lies now are burned away.
Fifteen Years of Lies,
Feeding up my brain,
Fifteen Years of Cries,
Crushing down my fate.
Far Horizons
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I lay down and dream of,
A better world to be.
With open skies all blue,
And lakes of water clean.
I pave on the mountains,
Where eagles fly high free,
I wish I had a pair of wings,
Aside with them to be.
Mother earth now is calling me,
Father sky he cries my name,
So I leave you all and fly away,
To a brighter sun and a brighter day will come.
I will fly to far horizons,
See from high above our world,
And I’ll leave this world of emptiness,
In my hands my destiny I’ll hold.
I will fly to far horizons,
See from high above our world,
And I’ll leave this world of emptiness,
In my hands my destiny I’ll hold. |
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