The History of Crimson Tears
Back in October 2003, guitarist Dave Miller had the driving idea of forming a metal band with a difference. His desire was to develop an Operatic Symphonic Power Metal band that really rocked but that had that commercial element. Heavy hooks and ‘singable’ riffs. He wanted to base it on one of his favourite bands ‘Nightwish’ but add in elements of all the other bands he loved.
The idea of bringing together opera, symphonic sound and metal was not going to be an easy project to undertake. Finding musicians who all wanted to play this kind of music was going to be even harder.
Formation
Dave knew immediately of one person who would be up for this type of project. A quick phone call to long time friend and ‘Scarab’ bass player, Steve Taylor fused the beginnings. And Steve begat Steve! This new Steve was a drummer from a prior band and he had the necessary experience and was up for it. Now all he needed was a keyboard player and some bird to warble! Even though Dave was able to play some keyboards, he could not be in two places at once and so a keyboard player would be the next essential. But where would you find one who was unique, extremely talented and versatile? When he saw an advert for a Grade 8 pianist and keyboard player called Marcus, into Ozzy, HIM and Iron Maiden, he phoned him immediately. Now to find that singer! Well trying to find a female classical/opera singer to play in a Metal band was not going be easy, in fact almost damn right impossible………. …….well we’re still searching so if you know any one who’d be up for giving this thing a go, let us know. Sorry Gina! In actual fact Gina is the singing coach Steve first went to in order to find a singer! He had asked for a Charlotte Church meets Megadeth! And that is what he got! However that wasn’t quite what he needed! So two auditions later, he got the actual bloody coach!
Over the course of the following year Dave, Marcus and Gina started writing and were so happy with the results that they booked into Thin Ice studios (famous for Threshold, Arena and DragonForce) to begin recording in December 2004.
