Cristal

History

Cristal was founded March 2004 by guitarist Michael Paradjian and his dream finally came true with todays line-up completed in July 2005 with the arrival of new singer Jérôme Leduc who brought the missing ingredient to the band.

Since the beginning, the musical direction was turned to melodic and fast metal, more precisely neoclassical power metal with little progressive tendency. Members of Cristal were selected following their technical skills, age and human qualities.

Sacha Swierczynski joined the band in summer 2004 as keyboards player. In september 2004, they were joined by drummer Benjamin Elleboudt and in February 2005, Hiro Onishi arrived as bass player.

In 2006, Cristal released their debut demo 'Here We Are' and in 2007, they came out with a 11 tracks album called 'Heroes of the Night'.

(source: Cristal, August 2007)