Ecliptica was founded originally as a solo project by Markus Winkler since mid 2003 with constant line up.

In December 2006, Ecliptica had their debut in front of 400 maniacs supporting Dead Soul Tribe.

In April 2007, Ecliptica successfully released their Debut-EP "The Awakening" in front of 500 people at Planet Music Vienna.
During the promotion for their EP, Ecliptica won the "Metal Battle Austria 2007" Contest and therefore played a set at the world famous "Wacken Open Air" in Germany. They also got their chance to play Donauinselfest 2007 and did their first show band acting at the Austrian Big Brother Awards (not to forget the support slot for the major US-Prog Metal gods Symphony X).

After a Club tour in fall 2007, Evelin Pieler quit the band and has been replaced by Elisabeth Fangmeyer.

In January 2008, the band entered Hinterhof Studios (Vienna) to record their first full length album "Impetus", which will be released on 17th May 2008.

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The sound of Ecliptica is defined in their musical roots, to point out the classical heavy metal of the 80ies as well as rhythm progressive elements from all decades.
The main character of Ecliptica's music is basically Power Metal, influenced by the sound of Queen, Maiden and Metallica (not to name the mass of bands raised in the power metal genre of the last 10 years).

Ecliptica's song writing is situated between classical style features and the use of material from other genres.
The use of male and female voices widens the musical horizon and makes Ecliptica's sound unique to other bands.

Source : http://www.ecliptica.at/impetus_homepage/