Ansata
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| Ansata | |
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| Origin | Piracicaba, Brazil |
| Genre(s) | Progressive metal Neo-classical metal Symphonic metal Power metal |
| Years active | 1997-present |
| Website | www.ansataonline.com |
| Members | |
| Malagueta Rafael Romani Thomas Barcelos Yuri Germuts Thiago Siqueira |
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| Former members | |
| Leandro Bortoletto Renato Manso Marcelo Alves Luciano Gutierrez |
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Ansata is a progressive metal band from Brazil founded in 1997 by guitarist Rafael Romani.
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[edit] Biography
After a few years playing in local bands, in 1997, Rafael Romani (guitars) decides to resume his studies and search for a music school. In the school, he meets the guitar teacher Renato Manso and the bass player Leandro Bortoletto, together they formed Stonehenge. Watching to some of the students presentations, they meet the singer Marcelo Alves and the drummer Thiago Siqueira, then both get invited to join the band. In the next year, Stonehenge start to stand out in their area because of their technical qualities in playing covers and a little later, Rafael Romani and Leandro Bortoletto was already part of the professor’s team in their school.
With good reply in several festivals, they started to record some ideas and in the middle of this process Marcelo Alves is replaced by Luciano Gutierrez. Then, the band suffers some changes in its musical style, now presenting more progressive elements for both their own compositions and the covers they performed live.
In 2002 they are invited to participate in Rock Soldiers Vol. 7 Song Collection that was distributed in Brazil and Germany, with a song called Above Them All. During the recording for the Song Collection, Leandro Bortoletto decides to leave the band to carry on other projects, and Rafael Romani plays the bass line in order to fulfill the launching time.
With the several changes in their music style a need of a keyboard player was inevitable, and Thomas Barcelos (at first as a guest musician), joins the band. They change the band name for ANSATA, assuming that this name reflects their music style more precisely.
Even without a bass player, they resume the recordings but this time who leaves the band is Renato Manso. During this fact, the band decides to remain with only one guitar player, making Thomas a fixed member and the keyboards a more important part of the band.
Having one more recording stopped and without a fixed bass player, they continue to perform in many places like Black Jack (São Paulo), Festival do Equinócio (Rio Claro) and Metal Rebellion (Ribeirão Preto) along side with bands like Versover, HAL9000, Death Slave, Andralls and Hawkana. Then, in 2004, they stop with the band activities to carry on their personal projects.
During this time out, the members didn’t stop playing together in other bands like Fireball (Deep Purple Tribute) and Trilithon (Hard/Classic Rock) with the singer Malagueta (Freehand, Ivory Gates). They also continued to write songs and in the beginning of 2007, they met Yuri Germuts who promptly accepted to fill the bass player position, opened for so long, to restart the first CD recordings.
[edit] Line-up
[edit] Current members
- Malagueta − Vocals
- Rafael Romani − Guitar
- Thomás Barcelos − Keyboards
- Yuri Germuts − Bass
- Thiago Siqueira − Drums
[edit] Former members
[edit] Discography
| Year | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Stonehenge | Demo |
| 2002 | Rock Soldiers Vol.7 | Compilation |
| 2008 | Lord Of The Dead | Single |
| 2008 | Crux Ansata | Studio |
