KALISIA's founding members (Brett - guitar & vocals -, Laurent P. - keyboards- and Loïc - guitar -) met in May 1994 when they joined local band INSANITY's drummer looking for musicians. But quickly, because of musical divergences, they left him to form their own band. In August, they were joined by Laurent B. - drums -, formerly in Techno-Thrash band RANDOMIZE TIMER, then by Thibaut - bass -(from Toulon's Death Metal band BLOODY RITUAL) two months later, scealing the current line-up of KALISIA.
The band immediatly started to play a kind of Death Metal both melodic and progressive (hence the length of some songs), often described as a combination of DREAM THEATER and CYNIC, where the lyrics had a great importance. They rehearsed in a small village, Laroque, near Ganges, a town at about 50 kms from Montpellier. They look back to this time with great pleasure : "When we rehearsed, we left in the morning, rehearsed, then went on the side of the river to eat (and feed the ducks !), and then rehearsed again. It was really cool, even if we usually rehearsed for many hours, something like 8 hours a day. A real expedition, like going to the country to have a picnic ! :-)"

After a year of existence, KALISIA entered the studio to record their first demo, Skies. Duplicated to 500 copies, this demo tape got quickly sold out, thanks to a great promotional work realized by the band. KALISIA has been contacted in November 95 by the french label ADIPOCERE to release the demo in CD in a 1500 Copies Limited Edition, and it's in November of the following year that this one was finally released. The reviews were extremely good, and the band was elected 10th best french band in the Readers' Referendums of Hard Rock Magazine and Hard N' Heavy Magazine. It is to notice that only two other metal bands were in the poll : LOUDBLAST (of course, in both !) and MASSACRA (in HRM) and SUP (in HNH). We can say that being elected 3rd best french metal band after only one demo tape and a CD reedition of it two months before the referendum is very encouraging, and surprised the band a lot !

KALISIA was offered many gigs but only played very few times. Among the bands they played with, we can name EMPEROR, MY DYING BRIDE, ELDRITCH, SAMAEL, THERION, CREMATORY, LAKE OF TEARS... For more informations about the band's live appearances, see the Tourography.

The band also aroused the interest of several french and foreign labels, even if no decision has been taken by now, KALISIA is concentrating on the composition of an ambitious concept album composed of a sole piece subdivised in many parts. The drummer of the band now works in Paris, but the band composes on a computer and rehearses about twice a month (even less sometimes) with him in Nîmes. The band also found a female vocalist for some lead and background vocals in the person of Corinne Pontet. The writing progress is about to reach its end, and the band hopes to record it in summer 2004 for a release at the end of 2004 - beginning 2005, at last, 9 years after the first demo...

OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY (2004)