Well....we think that Internet is a really useful resource for promoting music around the world at quite cheap costs...we started using the Internet back in 1998...making our first web-page...now we have our official web site http://www.highlord.net ! We have a lot of visitors and many people send us e-mails talking about our music. It is really interesting and we like using it. I am the directot of Internet affairs..so it is me who has to answer to all the e-mails...and deal with people who want to get in contact with Highlord.

The band was born in 1996...our name was Avatar and we recorded a demo tape, featuring 4 songs composed by ourselves.Thanks to this demo tape we signed with Underground Symphony but due to some line-up problems we had to change label, so we signed for NorthWind Records.At the moment we are: Stefano/guitars, Alex/Keyboards, Diego/bass, Luca/Drums and Vasc?/Voice and classical guitar.

It is too early to talk about sales....we sold over 3000 copies in 3 months...and we earned 4 licenses around the world...but we really hope to reach a higher position as soon as possible.Our dream is to sell at least 8000 copies within 2002.

Mmm....I think we are a sort of classical Power-Metal band...but...we try to go out of the trends imposed by the actual scene...so you can find in our album a mix of true metal but also some Hard Rock melody and epical stuff...he he...yeah! quite a mess! But the result is really interesting! Please check it out!!!

The first one is surely Yngwie J. Malmsteen but we love Helloween, Manowar, Iron Maiden, Megadeth but also Europe and Mr. Big....and we don't exitate to listen to Children of Bodom or Cradle of Filth...so we really listen to a wide range of music.

The main composer is Alex...followed by me and Vasc?....meanwhile, the writer is actually me! I really like writting lyrics. Well....about music...each one of the songs featured in When the Aurora falls... is different from the other...we had really fast-up tempos as Don't kill me again, Frozen Heaven...ballads...as Again, You'll never be lonely...and a suite as Tears of Darkness...with its 9 minutes of pure Power-Metal. About lyrics...we tried to talk about our inner experiences of life...we left epical novels to the 1999...year of our first album Heir of Power.....

My favorite songs are: Don't kill me again because it's a really fast song and I enjoy so much playing it on live shows....Again because it reminds me of a girl....and Tears of Darkness because it talks about a Role Playing Game I love! VAMPIRES!

It is from Louis Royo, a very famous, spanish artist. He makes awesome Fantasy subjects, we chose this one because it was different from the usual Fantasy covers you can find around in Italy.We liked it for it's dark-shades....and for the sad-expression of the main character.

Mmm.....funny question...but we haven't had any strange stories....mmm...maybe some based on sex-stuff, but...he he it's a secret u know.....ha ha.....

I am a Universitary student..I am studying foreign languages...and sometimes I make some part-time jobs...that's all....nothing special...

Yngwie J. Malmsteen!!!!! Micheal Kiske, Paul Gilbert...Jason Becker!!!!

Well....Sculptures....and paintings. But I am not interested in it as I am in music...sorry.

It happened 9 years ago...I was going to high-school...listening as usual to some Iron Maiden or Metallica album with my walkman stereo...so I told myself: well...I am sick of listening to music, I want to make it!....so some day after I went to a guitar shop and I bought my first guitar....and I started studying it....J

We recorded it at New Sin studios...the same studios where Labyrinth recorded their Return to the Heaven denied...it is the best studio for Metal in all Italy...believe me, it's incredible and also so, so expensive!!!!

Just looking at the cover....it seems all characters are sad...because something terrible happened...and the colors are so dark and gray....like night-time....or Aurora....So I imagined that little story...they were coming back home...but when they arrived...something happened to their families...so they seem sad....and the Aurora..was falling....to show them the dark side of their lives (we know that usually Aurora rises...we wanted to change it for making some sort of no-sense!J)

Touring? Oooh man! It's so fucking hard to find any live show here in Italy...we just have a few dates we earned by ourselves....we are playing around Italy, from the North to the South...and we are trying to get some live shows in Germany or Spain....but it's so difficult!!!

In Italy? We don't have many friends here, but maybe SkyLark....Rainspawn, White Skull, Secret Sphere, Olaf Thorsen and few unknown bands....

A concert we made in Milan....when for the first time we saw people singing our songs! That was incredible!!! We could feel energy in the air and we played harder than usual for them!!!!Awesome! And the best experience I have quite every day is when I receive some e-mail from other countries...from people who says hey! You highlord are great! that is a feeling that fills my heart with joy!

YEAH!!! FOR ALL THE METAL-HEADS OUT-THERE! KEEP ON ROCKING WITH US! AND STAY HIGH FOREVER!!!!! THANKS!!!!!
Stefano/Highlord