• HIGLORD a new band from Italy.Their style is power/symphonic metal in the veins of RHAPSODY and SYMPHONY X, but before you start to accuse them that they are another copy of this band, just read their guitarist interview. For me Stefano(guitars) is a sincere musician who loves HEAVY METAL music. I think that our music need persons like him, because the want to give without demanding anything. I hope Stefano won't change in the future his mind about this music.

1.GIVE A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE BAND. WHICH ARE THE CURRENT MEMBERS?

• well...the band born in 1996 when me and Alex met in a musical-club of our city...we started making some cover of bands like Helloween or Iron Maiden. In 1997 we recorded our first demo-tape and thanks to this tape we signed initially with underground Symphony, but since we had problems of line-up in that same year...we signed for new label northWind Records. In 1998 our first album "Heir of Power" was released. Production was not so good but it sold well so in 2000 we recored "When the Aurora falls..." in a professional studio, same of Labirynth. Actual members are: Stefano on guitars...Alex on keyboards, Diego on bass, Luca on drums and Vasce on vocals.

• oh,,,we don't like Rhapsody so much...except for our singer who really loves Lione's voice...but we always try to make our own music...maybe highlord sound is something like power-speed-metal.... with a lot of keyboards. well I don't know...everyone after listening to our music say something different so it is really difficult to describe our music...try to listen to it!!! and tell us your opinion...;-)

• mmm....Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Europe, Iron Maiden for sure!!!!!

• it took 18 days....but we needed some more to make a perfect work! so we had to go really fast on recordings....the producer was Luigi Stefanini, owner of New Sin studios....same of Labyrinth, Athena...and White Skull...best studios in Italy for Metal.

• Life! our life....and what it teach to us every single day....we have just to look at what surround us and we find something to talk about in our songs...that's really easy man! we left epical subjects... and we started talking about experiences of life....

• I think that Heavy Metal is just music...and so every people can make what he wants with it...mix with all the influences of the world...it's music...and music is used to give fun and feelings to people!!!

• oh! I'll say  that I listen to Heavy Metal since I was 15 years old...so...who will tell to me something like this should better know what he is talking about! that's for sure!

• as I told before....it's life! if we live something deep...we like to share our emotions and opinions with the ones that will listen to our music and take some few minute to read to the lyrics too....

• sometimes...it is useful to read between the lines because we talk about any subject in some velated way...so it is never direct way....often hard to be understood at first glance. We like epical stuff...but you said it..it is easy to write about it...but it is hard to make something that really hurt the heart of someone when he read it!

• NO! we want a bigger one...no...we need a bigger one! our label doesn't support us as we should be supported! I don't want to say bad words of our label because we have a good frienship with them....but promotion....is not good!

• let me see....I think it is good! maybe just promotion man! this is a weak point of our label....it is the only thing I'll make again from the beginning.

• we have some new song...and they are less epical...and more sinfonical...more like Symphony X....this is our new way to see Power Metal now...but we won't copy that kind of bands, no we will add our style to that prog metal muzic.

• yes we did! we really like play on stage and see audience for real...but in Italy it is so hard to find places that allow playing metal...so if someone can play 12 concerts a year it is quite good result here.

• no way! I hate Italian metal scene...it really sucks!!!! not for the bands, but for what is enclosed in the meaning of "Metal business".

• my favorite one is David Gemmel...and his saga of Drenai. really cool fantasy books! and also all Dragon Lance related books....and I like Banana Yoshimoto and Mishima. Japanese writers, I really like their subjects.

• he he..well...if you mean heroes like comic's ones....I'd like to be Wolverine....do you know that hero? he is from USA comics...edited my Marvel Comics...well he is my favorite!

• if someone will make a 4 episode about Conan the Barbarian, I'd like to compose sound track with my friends of highlord! Conan the Barbarian is my favorite movie! awesome!!!!

• well....I won't say become rich because it is too common wish....maybe play some big live show around the world....and maybe make a label and promote bands without caring too much about money! yes, I'd like to do it!!!!

• I am finishing university so I'd like to become a teacher...I like teaching...I hope to go and live in Japan and teach Italian! that will be nice for me!

• I decided to compose music when I was 16 years old...I was going to high school on the morning listening to Iron Maiden "Number of the beast" and I said to myself: "hey! I wanna play this fukin' muzic! it is sooo coool" so I bougt my first guitar and all started.

• I want to say THANKS to you all! and to all people supporting highlord! thanks so so much my friends!