Xandria

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What Xandria created with their 2003 debut "Kill the Sun" seems to be the beginning of a long-term career, after the band already had caused a sensation in the underground scene with their demo songs made public in the internet. Right away, the band attracted as many fans as to make the debut album enter the German Media Control charts. Afterwards, Xandria toured Germany. The second album "Ravenheart" hit the German charts on number 36 in 2004, remained there for several weeks and by far surpassed the success of the first piece of work. The "Ravenheart" video was played on music television and the press fell over themselves with enthusiasm. In summer 2004 the band for example played the main stages of "Summer Breeze Festival" and "Busan International Rock Festival" in South Korea - the biggest festival in South East Asia - and filled 30,000 spectators with enthusiasm.


What does makes up the immense fascination of the band? Lisa, Marco, Gerit, Philip and Nils unify modern rock with mystic soundscapes into a soundtrack of a different, really characteristic world. In Xandria's world, everyone is allowed to be as vulnerable as strong, to show feelings and to live all beautiful dreams which seem forbidden in the cold reality. "We want to give our audience courage - on their way back to everyday-life - to manage to also there stand for their feelings and to be strong enough to get through all pains and obstacles."

"India" is the new album of the band from Bielefeld, and it is offering several surprises: This time joining in are the "Deutsche Filmorchester Babelsberg" (engl.: the German movie soundtrack orchestra in Berlin), providing atmospheric moments, as well as an Irish folk band and guest appearances of Lyriel singer Jessica Thierjung and Grant Stevens from Australia. Nevertheless, it will not be completely different, of course. On this album, too, there is the combination of atmosphere and heaviness that is typical of Xandria - this time staged even better by means of a more powerful production. A concept in which India is a symbol for a goal you set yourself, provides the frame for the songs. But on your way you discover things in life that are far more fascinating, just like Columbus found America instead of India. Songs of dreamy atmosphere and heaviness, from orchestral soundtrack landscapes to a symbiosis of spacy sounds and hard guitar riffs - Xandria are true to their variability.