Fields of Asphodel saw their first light when the dead leaves of early Autumn 1997 were falling and in misty Padova (northern Italy) five extreme musicians met and decided to give birth to a new project together.
As the asphodel does on the remnants of the dead, the band was born on the ashes of previous musical projects from whose lifeless carcasses of disappointment a new phoenixlike power was meant to emerge and spread its wings in skies still unexplored.
With this aim, thrash metal drummer Antonio Fabris from DAIOMAI and DAIOMAI 's rythm-guitar/vocalist Giovanni Fort joined forces with well known Padova-scene bass player and sound technician Mattia Berti, skillful black metal guitarist Giuliano Mogicato (also member of the black metal duo EPHEL DUATH) and DAIOMAI 's former lead-guitarist Paolo Scarinzi, to try to achieve through their different tastes and experiences a more brutal yet melodic sound as the "Gothenburg-style" lesson well taught.
Since the very beginning the band has been determined to compose and play live a violent, extreme and fast melodic death metal, to combine the pure rhythmic brutality of death metal and the perverted speed and tortured vocals of black metal with the enthralling spell of harmony and melody.
Soon after their birth, Fields of Asphodel started touring northern Italy as support act for the paduan friends TRAUMA CRANIKO performing covers of their favourite influential swedish bands and writing their first songs together.
After months of intense live activity Fields of Asphodel had to procrastinate the recording of their debut CD to allow Giuliano to record EPHEL DUATH 's demo "OPERA" on which Giovanni was present as a guest vocalist on three tracks.
During summer 98 Giovanni, Antonio, Giuliano and Mattia go with Davide Tiso from EPHEL DUATH to Göteborg (SWEDEN) for an enlightening pilgrimage to meet their scandinavian idols and pay them homage.
After a fantastic and inspiring period with the swedish metal gods, Fields of Asphodel come back to Italy and start writing and refining the material for their first promo CD "Deathflower".
The recording sessions of Deathflower take place during the first days of premillennial 1999 in the azure rooms of "Blue Train's Infernal Recording Studio" (Mira, VE Italy) (famous for italian metal bands like: Cenotaph, Evol, Flash Terrorist, Ephel Duath...) where the expert hands of Giorgio Spolaor and Antonio Morgante provide the band with the powerful aggressive yet clear sound they need.
Once finshed the recording of Deathflower the band starts looking for a record deal (and still is) and prepares to self- finance the printing of Deathflower which will be soon available in CD format with cover artwork by Niklas Sundin from DARK TRANQUILLITY

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