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Significance started their activities in 2001 when two friends Cláudio Lousada and Daniel Lopes - at the time guitar player of the band - decided to put their musical ideas into practice by founding a band called Mephisto. The band played essentially what could be called black metal, but incorporating some different elements into their music such as acoustic guitar melodies, clean voices and also some classical based guitar riffs. After playing some shows with a good feedback from the public and press, it was time to record a demo with Cláudio Lousada - guitar & vocals, Daniel Lopes – Guitar, António Parreira - Bass and Jorge - Drums. The demo was recorded and did not reach the band’s expectations in what concerns the performance. After this “dramatic” event, the line-up suffered some changes. In 2002 recorded their first mini-album under the name Mephisto, now with Cláudio Lousada - Guitars & Vocals, Fernando Correia - Bass, Diana Crispim - Keys and Paulo “smoke” - Drums. The recording was named “night falls silent” and was composed of 4 long tracks. The recorded songs where now evolving to different musical fields, incorporating even more influences like 70’s progressive rock, psychedelic folk and still with the presence of metal elements. The band got once again good critics from the specialized press (see for example Rock sound magazine Portugal nº22) in both the album and the live performances that came after the recording in the year that followed. In 2005 the band suffered a major loss with the sudden dead of Paulo “smoke”. After this dramatic loss of a long time friend and excellent musician, the band ceased activities for some time. The album was never distributed. Was then time in late 2006 to change the band’s name to Significance. And after the drummer Alex Jorge joined the band in 2006, the first live appearance with the new name and line-up was in a Paulo’s homage concert that featured some of his friend’s bands. In February 2007 after composing and rehearsing new themes the band recorded a 2 track preview of what is going to be their first full length album. Once again the tracks received good feedback form the specialized press and featured in the underworld's magazine compilation “entulho sonoro vol.3” . The music of the band evolved to a field where many different influences are present. Dark and heavy parts coexist with mellow acoustic guitar and clean voice driven ones as well as unusual rhythmic patterns.