Epiclore

Biography

Epiclore, which plays symphonic epic atmospheric metal, was founded in April 2000 by Olli & Panu Hurskainen in Joensuu, Finland. Back then, Olli played all the instruments except drums, of which Panu took care on the first demo. The band worked under the project name Endeavour at that time. The first demo “Eulogy” was produced in our school’s music class and released in May 2000. Two songs of the demo were also released on a collection of songs produced in our school.

Shortly after the release, keyboardist Petri Pulli and bass player Ercci Pietilä joined the band. New songs were heard on the second demo, “Dream Once More”, which was finally released on 22.1.2001 after a long struggle with the CD covers… Just before the release, we decided to change the band’s name due to some disagreements with an other band with the same name… We agreed that the new name was to be “Epiclore” (as a combination of the words ‘epic’ and ‘lore’) feeling it would best represent the kind of music we perform.

During spring 2001, the songs “Fatherland” and “The Resignation of False Arts” were produced and released on the website. These songs were also released on the 2001 Lyysseo Rock Collection. Olli’s national service began in July 2001 and ended one year later. Some time after that, the band’s third demo, “Grace Upon The Realm”, which includes these two songs and some remakes of older songs, was produced and released on Sunday 13. 10. 2002. It ended a 1½-year period of inactivity.

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