The group was set up in August '99 by Mirco Borghini (vocals) and Leonardo Fusi (guitar). Mirco was a member of the first line-up of Italian black-metallers Lachryma Christi, Leonardo played in Tuscan trashers Spleen, with whom he taped some demo-tapes (Undfaithfull Trone 1991, Spleen 1993, Promo-tape 1995 1995, Sotto zero 1998). The project is joined by Francesco Miatto (drums), ex-drummer of Lachryma Christi (with whom he made In Madness I Wander demo in 1995). During the September of the same year Giacomo Occhipinti (bass) joins the band (ex-member of Utopia). Since then the band has been looking for a guitarist, but so far without success. The original will was to create extreme music without mental barriers, staying anyway in the Metal genre.
After some live exhibitions, where the band got the right feeling, they decided to realize their first self-producted CD with the title of REMINISCENCE. The CD was recorded and mixed from 31/03 to 04/04/2000 in the GRM Studio of Certaldo (FI), by Marco Viciani (who worked also with Eldritch). The CD obtains great responses from the metal magazines. For example in October 2000 it was the Demo of the Month in PSYCHO, with the excerpt Heeding Your Heroes (Spill Blood) of the compilation included with the magazine. In a word, all the copies produced were sold out, and so the band started to become more and more well-known.
Subsequently, the group has concentrated on live performances, with a series of concerts in different parts of Italy. Not to be forgotten moments include that of being supporting band for Tankard and their participation in the official tribute to Chuck Schuldiner with the cover of Symbolic. Coram Lethe also play with Stormlord, Node, Shadows of Steel, Handful of Hate, Dammercide, Arkenemy and many others, finding great aclaim whereever they play. In the meanwhile the group is concentrating its time on the composition of new songs.
In December 2001 the four group members signed a pre-contract with Negatron Rec. (Dammercide, Glacial Fear, Iblis etc.) in order to find foreign distributors and promote their material better. All of this took time and sometimes held up the production of new material, until finally there was a consensus of opinion to separate from the afore-mentioned label. Successive personal problems of some band members which were not connected to the musical sphere put the survival of Coram Lethe in serious jeopardy, but the strong ties between the four members and their belief in their music and style overcame these obstacles and they came back stronger than ever
In fact they also made the decision to join up with the well-known Paso (Ephel Duath) in order to create new material. The recording sessions were at Fear Studio in Alfonsine(RA) and Studio 73 in Ravenna, between July and September 2003. The work went really well and there was a great feeling in the studio. The songs, (10 in all), have come out marvellously. Of these Coram Lethe have chosen a promo of four pieces in order to interest a label in taking a chance on the band, collaborating with them for the production, distribution and promotion of new material..
In the meanwhile Francesco Bargagni (guitar) joins the band (member of Hellwrath and author of the solo-project Impherya).
Official biography
