Thessera

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Thessera
Image:Thessera.jpg Left to right: Marcelo Mattos, Raphael Lamim, Nando Costa, Fernando Cerutti, Rodolfo Amaro and Marcelo Quina
Background information
Origin	Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Genre(s)	Progressive metal
Years active	2003–present
Label(s)	ProgRock Records
Website	Official website
Members
Marcelo Quina Nando Costa Raphael Lamim Marcelo Mattos Rodolfo Amaro Fernando Cerutti]]

Thessera is a Brazilian progressive metal band. Their sound, as described by band members, is influenced by Fusion, Blues, Brazilian Music and Classical music, as well as the expected influences for a progressive metal band.

The band's name is inspired from a dream of guitarrist Nando Costa about a tesseract [1].

1 Biography
- 1.1 2006: First Album Release
2 Discography
3 External Links

[edit] Biography

[edit] 2006: First Album Release

The band's first album, Fooled Eyes, was released internationally by the label ProgRock Records. Despite being their debut, the work has been highly praised among specialized press in countries like USA, Israel, Poland, France, Germany, Hungary, UK and Brazil [2]. This concept album features 9 songs describing a character story, better translated around the motto "Reality is nothing but another dream"[3], much alike Dream Theater Scenes from a Memory concept. Remarkable influences on the songs are Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation and Symphony X as well as jazz, classical music, fusion and latin music structures.