GENERE: Rock / Classic Rock / Metal
PROVENIENZA: Orvieto-Italia
FORMAZIONE: Leo Ariel(Vocals and Bass)- Andrew Yourcenal(Guitars)- Ludwig Mariani(Drums)



SITO WEB: http://www.dafneband.com

Dafne…..I know them!....yes, and well enough!
I know them since they even didn’t play together, and now, in front of four yellow sheets of paper, it seems so strange that I have to talk about ‘em, and how it begun….and how it goes on!
I could tell you the truth….say everything.
Writing how it’s been hard, almost impossible, without money, restless….sometimes hopeless too!
And if you want me to be honest, I can tell you accurately the awful conditions they had to adapt to, all the troubles that almost made ‘em give up…
Then I could describe the place where they wrote, played and recorded their songs, through the winter cold and glasses of cheap beer, lost in the darkest and most desolated country I have ever seen!
Doubtless, I would finish listing the thousand shows without payment, the wickedness of some producers….and all the times they had to be silent, when someone was kicking them in the ass!!!
But, no, I don’t wanna do it!
I will try to be a liar the more I can, and I will write a few banal lines, just to barely give you an idea of who this four guys are, that, if I can say it, deserve fame, success, money and wine more than everyone else in this world, because they kept going on where others would have given up!

So, try to imagine, and maybe, one day, I will tell you the truth….

Dafne’s history had a true beginning when Leo Ariel met Alessandro Moncelsi, on a lyceum desks, in 1999, in Orvieto.
Through Maths and Latin, they became good friends soon, and they realized they were sharing the same profound passion for music, that wonderful thing that makes you forget everything else, takes you away and doesn’t leave you anymore….that changes, in a while, your entire life.

They begun playing for joke some old blues songs, but, as days went by, their wish grew up bigger, and the idea of doing great things was born inside their mind.

Soon, Leo and Alex re- found the band Dafne, on the ashes of an old group created by Ariel a few years before, with the same name.

But the band seemed it couldn’t find a stable “balance”!
In fact, Leo and Alex, trying to recover a guitar player and a drummer, saw a lot of people come and then go away.
It’s really hard to find someone ready to give up everything else to play.
The years passed by, but they never lost their hope.

Then, one day, in a brand new music shop in town, Leo met Andrew Yourcenal.
Ariel was really shocked by the way that guy was playing the guitar, as fast as the wind, as powerful as a rock breaker!
In a while, Andrew begun the guitar player of the band.
The group was finally complete when a seventeen boy, called Ludwig Mariani, came up in the band.

Playing every night, ‘til late, into a little building a few kilometres far from the city, where the winters are freezing, and summer’s like hell, through bad weathers and worst conditions, they found soon their own sound, powerful like nothing heard before, and ,at the same time, sweet and melodic….a kind of fusion between the eighties Heavy Metal and the classical symphonic music of the eighteen and nineteen centuries.
Andrew likes to call it “Neoclassic Rock”, but I believe that their music can have no name but “Dafne”!

The hard working, all the restless nights and a little bit of luck brought ‘em, in 2004, to make their wish come true: a lot of Labels, after they listened to their Demo, liked that sound.
At the end of the year, the band had already signed a contract with the label Underground Symphony, and went into the Bonsai Studios to record the first album.
Leo and the others left the studios in February 2005, with a great rock album and a powerful old- style sound!
The last months foregoing the writing of this biography have been times of hard working and endless waiting, that, like they say every time, are just preparing to the “shot”….I hope!

I am awaiting too……I wanna wait to see the faces of all the people that didn’t trust in this four boys, one day, when their revenge will arrive!
And, if there’s a God, even if it’s hard to believe it, it has to be really, really near!