Membres / Members: Morten Gade Sørensen : batterie / drums Jonah Weingarten : claviers / keyboards Lance King : chant / vocals Michael Kammeyer : guitare / guitars Niels Kvist : basse / bass Toke Skjønnemand : guitare / guitars Présentation / Presentation: Formé fin 2001 à l'initiative du guitariste Michael Kammeyer (ex-Damion), Pyramaze a la particularité de réunir sous une seule et même bannière des musiciens danois et américains : Morten Gade (batterie), Niels Kvist (basse) et, bien évidemment, Michael Kammeyer, pour les scandinaves, Jonah Weingarten (claviers) et Lance King (chant, ex-Balance Of Power, Mattson, King's Machine et Gemini) pour les USA. Sorti au printemps 2004, " Melancholy Beast ", leur premier album, présentait un groupe carré, puissant et mélodique. Des aptitudes que les prestations live de Pyramaze, aux Etats-Unis, en Allemagne, au Danemark et même en France (au Raismes Fest et à la Locomotive avec Primal Fear), allaient confirmer. Musicalement influencé par Iced Earth, Kamelot, Iron Maiden et Queensrÿche, après des débuts aussi prometteurs, le quintette a travaillé de longs mois sur ses nouvelles compositions. Produit, comme son prédécesseur, par Jacob Hansen (Withering Surface, Manticora, Invocator, Illdisposed, Ancient), " Legend Of The Bone Carver ", le nouvel album, marque l'arrivée de Toke Skjønneman au poste de second guitariste. Désormais armé de deux " lead guitars ", Pyramaze semble encore plus fort. Ce disque affirme encore plus la personnalité de ces maîtres du power metal. Dans une atmosphère tourmentée et mélodique, ces derniers développent, à travers 10 compositions épiques et classieuses, un passionnant concept auquel peu d'auditeurs pourront résister. Pure et cristalline, l'impeccable production met en valeur la qualité des arrangements, ici le son est au service de l'interprétation. Un avantage qui permet à la voix de Lance King de se tailler une part de lion. Sa performance permet vraiment aux titres de Pyramaze d'entrer dans une autre dimension. Un univers qu'il ne tient qu'à vous de découvrir… The early beginning of Pyramaze took form in the winter of 2001/2002, when the 24 year old guitarist Michael Kammeyer left his former band, Damion. With Pyramaze, Michael now had the idea of writing a complete album of own material in the melodic power metal style. In the summer of 2002 Michael found himself with enough material for the debut album, and didn't have to look far to find the first 2 persons to complete the band, as local drummer Morten Gade and bassist Niels Kvist immediately jumped on the opportunity to join Michael in his quest. The next person to be enrolled in the Pyramaze line-up, was the American keyboardist Jonah Weingarten, who Michael had met over the internet. With a band around him, Michael booked the studio for the recordings of the debut album. To take care of the sound, the well-known producer Jacob Hansen was chosen - a man with a long list of fantastic productions behind him, ranging from Withering Surface and Illdisposed to Manticora and Ancient. In January 2003, Jonah flew to Denmark and the band began recording the CD. After having laid down all the tracks besides the vocals, producer Jacob decided to send a couple of MP3's to his long time friends at Intromental Management - a Danish metal agency, who already had worked together with Jacob on numerous recordings. The guys at Intromental fell totally in love with the Pyramaze material, and gave Michael a call. After a couple of phone conversations, the two parties, Pyramaze and Intromental, decided to join forces, and the band suddenly found themselves being promoted professionally, with all it encloses (including a certain "responsibility" to take themselves more seriously and believe in what they were doing). One of the things that came with the signing to Intromental, was the decision of finding a singer, who not only would fit the material, but also be able to lift it to even higher levels. And that singer was soon found in American vocalist extraordinaire Lance King, known from such great power and progressive metal acts as Balance Of Power, Mattson, King's Machine and Gemini. In spring 2004 Pyramaze signed with EMI-Toshiba for Japan, NTS / Replica Records for Europe and Nightmare Records for USA, and during May '04 the album was released to great reviews and media feedback, as well as incredible support from the fans worldwide. The first couple of gigs took place in USA in April 2004, followed by some incredible gigs in September '04 throughout selected European countries (Denmark, Germany and France). Now integrated in the band is additional lead guitarist Toke Skjønneman. In the summer 2004 another couple of deals for the album release fell into place, when the band signed with Megahard Records for South America and with Melodic Heaven for Asia (except Japan of course). In 2005 the band recorded their new disc - "Legend Of The Bone Carver", a conceptual disc of epic proportions. "Legend Of The Bone Carver" will be released through the following labels during February 2006; Massacre Records (Europe), Replica Records (France), Nightmare Records (USA), Melodic Heaven (Korea) and King Records (Japan). And so Pyramaze became the band you have now - a fantastic unit of professional musicians, creating some of the best melodic power metal these days. A beautiful blend of bands like Iced Earth, Kamelot and Iron Maiden, with a nice progressive edge to it, and a bunch of really talented musicians. Discographie / Discography: 2004 : Melancholy Beast RPL 014 2006 : Legend Of The Bone Carver RPL 034 Site officiel / Official site: www.pyramaze.com Booking agent / Management : www.intromental.com