If we mix heavy riffs and melancholic arpeggios, distorted bass, dark and electronic atmospheres, airy openings and catchy vocal melodies, here we get the music, not easy to label, proposed by MADWORK.
The band comes to life in 1999 with the aim of proposing their own music, mixing the musical tastes of all the components of the group. After few demos related to prog-metal genre, MADWORK begin a process of experimentation for new musical contaminations and solutions that leads to detachment from the prog-metal sound, producing in 2003 a demo, “Leaving All Behind”, which fully represents the new road taken.
The demo gets the desired effect, gets some production and distribution proposals and finally, in 2005, the first full-length, called “Overflow”, is published for Le Parc Music. The album contains 11 songs that best represent the music of MADWORK, a variety of atmospheres that is very well valued by specialized press, while not facilitating the classification of the band in a specific genre.
The most important magazines who have reviewed “Overflow”: RockHard (ITA): 8/8 – RockSound (ITA): 7/10 – Heavy-Metal.it (ITA): 8/10 – hardSounds.it (ITA): 87/100 – TrueMetal.it (ITA): 83/100 – Harm.us (USA): 9/10 – Metal.de (GER): 8/10 – Encrucijada-melodic.com.ar (ARG): 5/5
Between 2005 and 2006 MADWORK start a live tour, performing more than 40 concerts and contests, in some of the most important locations in the North of Italy.
Soon after “Overflow” MADWORK start to work on a second album, but in 2008 the guitarist and co-founder of the group Jork friendly leaves the band.
It’s difficult to fill the empty place left by Jork, but finally in 2011 MADWORK find in Nicolò Greppi the guitarist with the right mentality and the necessary technical capacity. New songs come to life, with a more aggressive and electronic mood, but still in the atypical MADWORK style.
At the end of 2012 MADWORK release the videoclip of the song “Hide & Seek”, that can be enjoyed at http://youtu.be/UWwf_LesavM
In the same period, MADWORK start collaborating with Marzio Francone, a well known italian producer that joins the MADWORK project for the artistic production of the new songs, giving to the band a fresh and stronger impact.
At the beginning of 2013 MADWORK sign a deal with UNDERGROUND SYMPHONY for the release of the new full lenght album, tinged with industrial and dark/gothic atmospheres and sonorities with a series of highly personal environments, melodic and of great impact overall. Scheduled for autumn of 2013, the title and release date will be announced soon.
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