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The band was founded in 1998 on an idea of Giuseppe Bondì (keyboards) and Claudio Diprima(drums). They played together in a power-metal cover band but one day they decided to
create their own music .
So they started searching for musicians that had faith in their project and they found
them in : Maurizio Malta , Giovanni Santini , Michele Cristofalo and Dario Grillo.
In July 2001 Thy Majestie decided to record "1066",
a promo/demo
Cd self-produced that wasn't released. It was used to "arrange" the new songs . But two songs were
put on the Internet and received
thousands of dowloadings and great pubblic response .
The album received great reviews and
response Worldwide, and everyone noticed that Thy Majestie had improved a
lot their songwriting, their musician skills and the production. They took
care of every little detail, and the new sound of the band is
a mix of Power Metal, Progressive parts, celtic interludes,
majestic opera Choirs (performed by the Choir of Palermo Massimo Theater).
In December 2002 Thy Majestie supported Vision Divine for a mini-tour in
the North of Italy. It was an amazing experience.
In November 2003 Dario Grillo leaves the band. From now on a dark period
of Thy Majestie's career begins. After many troubles (they had a 8 months
experience with Gabriele Grilli , Doomsword's former singer) Thy Majestie found a
new singer. He is Giulio Di Gregorio. In Septmber 2004 Thy Majestie joined
again the recording studio. This time they chose to record the new album
in their own studio. Claudio Diprima (the drummer) is the producer.
The recordings are full of troubles and Giulio took a lot of time to learn
the songs. The recording are finished in June 2005!
"Jeanne d'Arc" , the third album of Thy Majestie is released again
for Scarlet Records in October 2005. The sound is simplified, less choirs
, less orchestrations, more Metal. The band has reached now a good level
of maturity, and the album received many good reviews.
In April 2006 (5 months after the album release, due to Giulio's health
problems) Thy Majestie play the first (and unique) concert with Giulio.
Due to his many health problems and to his lack of knowledge of the
English language (and much more...) they decide that Giulio can't
sing anymore with them.
While it seemed that the dark period was over when Giulio joined the band,
Thy Majestie have to face again the reality. They don't have a singer.
In May 2006 Matt Aub (american singer and guitar player for the band
Timelord) join the band for some months. But they realized that it was too
difficult to work with a singer that lives thousands miles away.
So in November 2006, Dario Grillo re-joins Thy Majestie! Many fans
were waiting for that since the moment that Dario left the band
Now the band is working on their 4th album.
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