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Released: Oct 13, 2010
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General Info

  • Genre: Metal

    Location Athens, Gr

    Profile Views: 103457

    Last Login: 4/24/2013

    Member Since 5/4/2006

    Website x-piral.com

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    X-Piral were originally formed in 2000 by Nick Papanikolaou (lead guitars) and Dimitris Marinis (Synth & Piano) under the name Shadow Play. A demo CD was recorded entitled "Perfect Lies", at Graffiti Studios on February of 2000 but the result was not satisfying enough and the CD never got to the public. The band gave some live shows, until it was realized that there was enough material to start the recordings for a promo CD, which eventually turned out to be a full debut album. In the summer of 2003 the band entered Power Studios, under the guidance and support of George Stratakis (Rust), and began recordings. In the summer of 2004, Giannis Georgopoulos of Burning Star Records contacted the band and after discussion of 2 weeks, it ended up with a deal and a contract. In February 2005 Poison Eyes was finally out in the shops. Reviews began emerging, some good, some bad, but in general X-Piral had made a good entrance to the music scene. The music of X-Piral was a combination of 80's Heavy metal with 00's European Power Metal, also featuring some female vocals, which sounds interesting enough. The current lineup was Michael Apostolakis (Vocals), Nick Papanikolaou (Rhythm and lead guitars), Dimitris Marinis (Synth & Piano) and Fragisos Samoilis (Drums) while soon after the release Thanos Tzanetopoulos (Guitars, also in Inactive Messiah) and Makis Petritsis (Bass) join the band. By 2007 X-Piral had enough material to start recording their second album. The musical direction is more complicated as 6 musicians with entirely different influences formed these tracks. One can hear Power Metal, Thrash, Rock, Classic Heavy metal, influences from Finnish scene, Scandinavian, American and all this combined with new sound in the instruments. The album was recorded at Esoteron studios and mixed/mastered at Bazement studio, Germany, by Marcus Teske known for his work with Mobe Rules and Symphony X, Vanden Plas and Red Circuit. In the year 2008, a few months after the release of "Hunters", X-Piral made a difficult choice. After long though X-Piral replaced their vocalist Michael Apostolakis with vocalist Tassos K. (Hybrid, Secret Illusion. In 2009 X-Piral parted ways with bass player Makis Petritsis after 5 years of collaboration and he was replaced with John Litinakis (Reflection). Nowadays X-Piral are working on new songs, rehearsing and composing every day for an upcoming release.
  • Members

    Tassos K. - Vocals, Nick Papanikolaou - Guitars, Dimitris Marinis - Keys and Piano, John Litinakis - Bass, Fragiskos Samoilis - Drums and Percussion
  • Influences

    Varrying from 80's Heavy metal and bands like Pantera, Metallica, and also the AOR scene, to european power metal and bands like Grave Digger, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Stratovarius etc.
  • Sounds Like

    As the reviews said, a mixture of european power metal (with keyboard elements) and 80's heavy metal.

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  • RandomWalk

     New Official Video Clip 2012!

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    Enjoy!

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  • A Dream of Poe

    Hello!
    The new Album “The Mirror of Deliverance” will be released in February 25th through ARX Prod. and it’s now available for Pre-Orders on our Myspace and Website!

    Besides the highly acclaimed song “Lady of Shalott”, which got great reviews all over the world, this album features 6 songs, from which 5 of them were never released before!

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    2 years ago
  • Ida MCkInney



    I LOVE your music, wish you a great weekend.

    2 years ago
  • Ida MCkInney




    I just love your songs keep going hit us up with

    2 years ago
  • RandomWalk

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    on stage to play together 2 songs of our new album entitled "Absolution".

    2 years ago
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