Kaledon's Biography
Kaledon was born in the second part of
1998 after the split between the lead guitarist Alex Mele and
his band "River of change".
After the spilt Alex Mele called immediately the bass player
Paolo Lezziroli and the rhythm guitarist Tommaso Nemesio.
After many line-up problems, the band started to play live in
the big Roman theatres.
Kaledon replace the original drummer "Daniele Staccini" for
technical problems with Dario Sacco"
Kaledon's first release was in autumn of 1999. The band produced
their first demo cd, "Spirit of the dragon" without keyboard.
With this cd started the collaboration with "Metal Massacre on
stagte production".
Fabio Bernardi also in "River of change" join the band like a
guest for six months.
During this period Fabio recorded with the band two promo-cd,
"Spirit of the dragon" (same version previous released, but with
keyboard), and "God says yes".
Kaledon played like opening act in Ronnie James Dio Show, in
june 16 2000.
Kaledon open on the web their page. The internet page is
http://www.kaledon.com
Kaledon replaced the drummer (Dario Sacco) for personal problems with "David Folchitto", and the singer (Anthony Drago) with
"Claudio Conti".
Kaledon recorded one other promo cd with "Claudio Conti". The
band used the same tracks of the old cd but they replaced the
vocal parts with the new singer. The last cd is formed of two
songs from "God says yes" and one song from "Spirit of the
dragon".
Kaledon found in Daniele Fuligni their new keyboardist ex
keyboard player of "Ghost Rider".
The band start to record "Courage" from the album "Louder
than hell",
for an (un)official Manowar tribute. Out for Northwind rec.
In october 2001 kaledon heve signed a record deal with the
Italian SteelBorn Rec. (division of Northwind Records).
Between November 2001 and March 2002 kaledon was in studio for
the recording session of their debut album. "legend of the
forgotten reign".
During the recording sessions of the debut album Alex Mele
started to write the songs for the second album with the singer
Claudio Conti.
In October 20 2002 kaledon played at Northwind Rec Festival in
Rome, with Heraldry and Demon's whip
Alex starts his biggest opera!
He has started to write the romance of legend of the forgotten
reign.
In
April 07 2003 Kaledon started the recording session of their
second album called Chapter 2: The king’s rescue. At the end of
the recording sessions Kaledon have recorded their “FATHER TIME”
version for one Stratovarius tribute album named Within
Infinity.
The band find in Dario Annibali their new manager.
During the 2004 the band worked on the third chapter of the
legend of the forgotten reign saga, but unfortunately, during
this period the drummer David Folchitto decided to leave Kaledon
for personal problems!
He wants to dedicate much time to his other projects, but he'll
work with the band untill kaledon find a new drummer.
In the third Kaledon’s album the drum parts were played by
Jorg Michael (Stratovarius).
Kaledon started the recording sessions of the drums in july 7th
2004 in Como.
The recording studio was in Inverigo near Como, and the rest of
the album was recorded in Rome between October and december in
The Outer Sound Studios.
The
recording sessions of chapter 3 was very long and hard...
Giuseppe Orlando was a very good and impressive teacher for the
band.... and chapter 3 was a very masterpice.
During the chapter
3 recording sessions Kaledon have been rejoined by drummer David
Folchitto.
The third Chapter’s name is : THE WAY OF
THE LIGHT.
After Chapter 3 release date, the band made a lot of promotion
with live dates, with gadgets, and many other ways, The band
with Kick Promotion Agency of Rome made tons of interviews and
received tons of reviews from all the world!
Kaledon began one big reality in the heavy metal world and
without vacation started to work on the next album... Chapter
4...
At the beginning of the recording sessions of Chapter 4 the band
broken up the recording deal with their record company
SteelBorn records because they was absolutely not able to follow
the band in their way...
The closure of the contract foresees the transfer of the whole
contract to another famous, important Italian label. With the
new label we had lots of e-mail and phone calls to discuss the
fact that never on earth they would have worked in a negligent
way as the last label did.
Their behaviour was worse than the previous one and they told us
to find a new label... they never sent us a new contract, and
when we had to pay the studios they disappeared.
Obviously we found another company... Universal Metal
Production...
This new company gave to the band a support and of course the
great possibility to share Kaledon's music in the United States
of America!
Probably other companies in the world will buy the licence of
the record and of course you'll see Kaledon everywhere...
Kaledon has signed also for a great
european record company! Hellion Records from Germany! They will
work for kaledon in all europe
Chapter 4 name is : TWILIGHT OF THE GODS and it was released on
December 2006 in USA, on December 8 in Europe and april
2007 in Japan!
After this release Kaledon
played live in many situation and during these days, something
has begun to happend between the band and singer Claudio Conti!
There was a lot of fights for personal reasons... and all these
problems are finished with the split between Claudio and the
band!
After a little time
Kaledon found a new singer in Marco Palazzi, a young singer and
immediately they started to work on the new Chapter of the
saga... Chapter 5...
wait the next years...