Kalisia

Hailing from the land of garlic and pretentious moustaches, Kalisia formed in 1994 under the leadership of Brett Caldas-Lima who garnered the talents of Auspex’s Elodie Buchonnet amongst others. After releasing a couple of well received demos over a two year period, work commenced on their first, and so far only album, “Cybion”. They would proceed to spend over ten years crafting a 70 minute single track concept record of astonishing scope. Unhindered by boundaries, Kalisia produced a land mark in the field of progressive metal, combining the best of Dream Theater’s progressive wonderings with death metal’s pure assault, Lima even going so far as to create his own language to flavour the album’s intriguing story. Unjustly consigned to the underground by labels who think you’re too stupid and Ritalin dependent to appreciate this masterpiece, the band self released the album to great acclaim from the lucky few who knew what was coming. Be sure to check these guys out, because it maybe another 10 years before we hear from them again.

Recommended Works
Cybion (LP): The album comes complete with the previously released “Skies” demo and 4 cover songs. You need to set aside 70 minutes of quiet time to absorb this, but god damn is it worth it. Paul Masvidal approved.

Current Members
Brett Caldas-Lima - Vocals, Guitars, Programming
Laurent Pouget - Keyboards
Thibaut Gerard - Bass
Brun's (Bruno Michel) - Guitars
Elodie Buchonnet - Female Vocals, Flute, Saxophone

Former Members
Loic Tezenas - Guitars
Laurent Bendahan - Drums

Essential Tracks
Cybion
Lost Soul
A Fortune in Lies (Dream Theater Cover)
How Could I? (Cynic Cover)
I Am The Black Wizards (Emperor Cover)

Links
Metal Archives
Wikipedia
Last.fm