Ancient Bards

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 almost final line up with Sara Squadrani as singer, Claudio Pietronik as solo guitarist, Fabio Balducci as rythm guitarist and Alessandro Carichini as drummer. Alessandro was was in September 2010 replaced by Federico Gatti.

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.