April, Featured Artist

(All our playlists will include Elektradrive tracks)

ELEKTRADRIVE are one of the Ten for 10 bands selected by Get Ready to ROCK! for additional promotion in 2010.

ELEKTRADRIVE

The band in 1983.

This Italian melodic hard rock band formed in March 1983, and their debut album was released two years later, called Over The Space.  However, it was with their second album release that the band generated wider acclaim, receiving a Kerrang 5K rating for the album Due, released in May 1989; the magazine commented: 'Class is written through virtually every song on the record'.

The band in 1989.

At this time, the band were gigging constantly in their homeland and even visited the States in 1990 for promotional work.  With the general climate for Elektradrive's brand of radio-friendly melodic rock changed by the onset of grunge, they retreated back to Italy to start work on their next album.  Big City was released in March 1993.

The return of the original singer Elio Maugeri provided a turning point in the band's fortunes and work began on a new album in 2004.

Living 4 was released in January 2009 via the Italian-based Valery Records to wide acclaim and marked a maturity both in songwriting and musicianship with comparisons made to the best of Toto and Kings X but with a distinctive sound borne of the band's long history.

The band continue to promote 'Living 4' and are hoping to bring their music to a wider audience in 2010.

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Elektradrive website

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