Italy’s HEVIDENCE Ink Multi-Album Label Deal
August 8, 2016, 8 years ago
Frontiers Music Srl has announced the signing of Hevidence to a multi-album deal.
Hevidence is the brainchild of Italian guitar player Diego Reali. Diego’s own story as a musician began in 1996 with his first band, DGM. Diego’s songwriting and style contributed to six of that band's power prog metal masterpieces: “Random Access Zone”, “Change Direction”, “Wings Of Time”, “DreamLand”, “Hidden Place”, and “Misplaced”. For ten plus years, Diego recorded and toured with DGM around the world. During this time he also collaborated with Claudio Simonetti, the former keyboard player and mastermind of Italian prog band Goblin, among others.
In 2006, Diego wanted to stretch his wings and try other musical styles, so he started to work on different projects, dabbling in many different kinds of music (blues, indie, country, pop, and rock). He spent a few months playing with his brother’s indie band, Happy Never After, playing several gigs around Italy; however, it is always difficult to forget where we come from and that is why after almost four years of musical experimentation and journeys, Diego decided to go back to his original musical influence and first love: classic heavy metal. He started writing many tunes akin to early DGM, but this time with a more conscious idea of his own style and with a musical background richer than ever. In 2010, he called his brother Stef Reali (Hijack Party) to play drums and Andrea Arcangeli (DGM, Noveria, Solisia) to play bass and started a new band called Evidence, with whom he released There’s Only Ten Left in 2011.
Now, after some lineup changes (enter Corrado Quoiani on vocals and Emiliano Bonini on drums), a new label, an even more mature and personal vision, the band slightly altered the name from Evidence to Hevidence and are now ready to take on the world with a style reminiscent of the classic early Yngwie Malmsteen albums, mixed with power metal and melodic hard rock influences (think Europe at the height of their popularity). The new album, Nobody's Fault, is a kick ass release from start to finish – a must for all fans of virtuoso and melodic metal!
Hevidence mastermind and guitar player Diego Reali says: "Everyone in the band is highly excited about this multi-album deal with Frontiers Music. I feel lucky and proud to be part of this big family and share their efforts together with other big names of the scene which I have followed since I was a child. The new album is the result of an awesome collaboration between me, my trusted friend Andrea and the new line-up and it's going to be a powerful mix of classic heavy metal and pure hard rock with a very raw sound and a vintage flavor, the new songs will perfectly suit the Frontiers releases within the same genre and will push the boundaries of the rock 'n' roll sound. Get ready to ROCK!!!"
Hevidence will release their debut album for Frontiers before the end of the 2016.