Raintime

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Raintime
Origin	Pordenone, Italy
Genre(s)	Melodic death metal Power metal Progressive metal
Years active	1999 – present
Label(s)	Arise Records Soundholic Records Replica Records Lifeforce Records Bieler Bros Records
Website	raintime.com
Members
Claudio Coassin Matteo Di Bon Luca Michael Martina Michele Colussi Enrico Fabris Andrea Corona
Former members
Matteo Barzan Francesco Rossi Giovanni Buora Carlo Nadalin

Raintime is an Italian melodic death metal band which was originally assembled in 1999. The band was initially significantly inspired by Dream Theater, and as such composed songs which leaned towards the progressive metal genre. They then recorded an instrumental demo entitled Jump In the Past. Subsequent to the release of "Jump in the Past", the band's original drummer quit, and Enrico Fabris joined the band to replace him. Also, Claudio Coassin, who had previously been on keyboards, switched to vocals, leaving keyboards to Andrea Corona. They evolved their sound into a new hybrid of Swedish melodic death metal and Finnish extreme power metal (bands like In Flames, Children of Bodom, Soilwork) and more power-influenced melodies, with some elements of thrash and metalcore. Their musical style borrows elements both from extreme metal, such as death growls and lower tuning of their instruments, and from more melodic genres, especially for what regards keyboards and vocals. With this new focus, the band recorded their debut album Tales from Sadness in 2005 with Arise Records. The album was pretty successful. The second "official" chapter of the band, Flies & Lies (Lifeforce), released in 2007 and produced by Tommy Handsen, gave Raintime the possibility to perform live at ProgPower USA with bands like After Forever, Virgin Steele and Sonata Arctica.