MAGICA
Style- melodic heavy power metal with female vocals
Current line-up:
Ana Mladinovici-vocals
Bogdan "Bat" Costea-guitar
Vali Zechiu-bass
6fingers-keyboards
Cristi Barla-drums
Discography
The Scroll of Stone -2002, rereleased by Divenia, 2003
Lightseeker-2004
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Magica started in February 2002 as the solo project of Bogdan 'Bat' Costea, guitarist (at that time) of Interitus Dei. The reason for starting this band was Bat's desire to play the music that he likes: heavy metal & melodic rock
The first line-up consisted of: Ana Mladinovici - vocals (also a member of Interitus Dei at that time ), Bogdan 'Bat' Costea - guitar and Valentin 'IngerAlb' Zechiu - bass guitar (ex-Web, and also the man behind the projects Inger de Fier & Telurica).
The recordings for the 1st album started in spring 2002. After 2 months of intense work, the material was ready! 12 power melodic heavy metal songs, in the vein of Rhapsody, Nightwish, and Helloween, which show the high potential of the band. The album, entitled "The Scroll Of Stone", tells the story of princess Alma - tricked by a demon, she loses her soul, and so her quest begins... she has to find the scroll of stone, the only thing powerful enough to break the demon's spell.
"The Scroll of Stone" was produced in Romania by Sigma Records and was well received by the media, in spite of the lack of promotion. Songs from this album were aired on Radio Romania Tineret, Radio Dada, Radio Cluj, Radio Sky, Activ FM, etc. Several reviews were written by magazines such as: HMM.RO, or Heavy Metal Megazine, and an interview with the band was published in the No. 10 (70)/August 2002 issue of the prestigious Heavy Metal Magazine, and some live interviews on Radio Sky.
In spite of the fact that Magica has never performed live until 2003, it was designated by the readers of Heavy Metal Magazine as the "Best Newcomer" of 2002; "The Scroll of Stone" has entered the "Best Romanian Album 2002" Top 10 of Bestial Metal! magazine at number 7. Also, one of our songs ("Mountains of Ice") was included on Maximum Rock #1 cd included with the 1st issue of Maximum Rock Magazine.
6fingers became Magica's keyboard player in summer 2003.
September 2003 brings a license contract with Divenia Music from Mexico and a new cover from Luis Royo, the famous fantasy artist.
Magica began playing live at various shows in Romania and one show in Bulgaria
Currently the second album, "Lightseeker", is ready and had been launched in October 2004 in France through Underclass Music and in America through Divenia Records
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
We played couple times in Bucharest and Constanta(Romania) and at Rock For Peace in the Balkans Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Your musical influences
The general opinion is that we are influenced by Nightwish..so be it. There are also some Rhapsody influenced, some Helloween sometimes, maybe Stratovarius.
Anything else?
Visit our website at www.magica.us
Contact: info@magica.us
Buy Magica albums:
www.divenia.com/shop.html
www.underclass-music.com
www.centurymedia.com
