Hyades

Hyades formed back in 1996 by the idea of "Little Italian Donkey Ass" Lorenzo Testa (thanks Kenny Powell for quote), they released four demoCDs: something good and something absolutely to forget or wipe out completely from memory... But, hey! We were so fucking young! "No Bullshit, Just Metal", the absolutely-no-alternative 2001's EP, was surely the best release of our first nine years of career: we appeared in a couple of well-known compilation such as "Metal Crusade IV" by German mag "Heavy Oder Was!?" (now simply called "Heavy!") and "Metal Gospel". We reached a stable line-up in 2003 with the addition of Mauro "Jorgy" DeBrasi on drums and the hairball Rob "Bardo" Orlando on bass. We quickly grown up, playing a lot of shows each month, everytime and everywhere (including the worst pothouses we have ever seen hahah!). We declined a couple of deal offers from rip-off's labels and we keep on going ahead on our road without a motherfucking record deal. Who cares?

We recorded by ourselves the first album between January and February 2004: nine unreleased songs more aggressive, fast and uncompromising than everything Hyades did before. From the heavy/speed of the beginning we evolved bit by bit towards a groovy & funny thrash metal in Bay Area style, but with a personal and European approach. The full-length album, titled "Abuse Your Illusions" aroused the interest of many record labels and we finally choose for a double deal, both with Belgian Mausoleum Records (for the main worldwide release) and Brazilian Marquee Records (for a special release in South America and Japan with bonus tracks and a different artwork). "Abuse Your Illusions" was released on November 14, 2005 and received awesome reviews, with a rate average of 8/10 points!

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