MetalKelt came about in the summer of 2005 when Paul Giampaolo and Matt Hughes started talking about playing some music together and playing Irish music. Paul (Keyboards, Backing Vocals and Drums) was learning a few songs and they got together once or twice that summer and fooled around with the music. Come October and Matt's reawakened passion for music, they began getting together again, and and with November came the idea of putting a CD together and performing live with a band. The project from the beginning would be Celtic Fusion (thus the title of their forthcoming debut CD.) "Calling the CD Fusing Tradition came to me one night," Matt recalls, "I thought it was a perfect name, being descriptive of what we do." Combining Matt's metal roots and Paul's skills on arranging and performing songs on keyboards, the band continues down their unique path and leaving an indelible mark on Irish music. "The rebel songs lend themselves to being played aggressively," says Matt. Paul plays several ballads on the keyboard including Star of the County Down and Patriot Game. "I had a lot of fun arranging the songs," says Paul "Patriot Game is one of my favorites." Paul also is handling producing and mixing duties to go with his musical talents in the band. "The mixes we have now are so much better now that we have had the chance to rework some of the songs. The CD is shaping up nicely." Along the path to completion of the CD Paul's computer's hard drive fried. Ironically it (the hard drive) fried days before Paul was to acquire a backup hard drive to store the song files on. "We lost about 8-9 songs," says Matt. "Most of the songs came out better the second time through with recording. I think Foggy Dew was already amazing but the reworked version captures what we were trying to do the first time."