Alkemyst

France's Alkemyst spent most of the nineties struggling to make a go of it with unstable membership and the oft-used name Endless, but by 1998, both they'd settled on a somewhat stable line-up and their eventual name. Singer Fabrice Sollier, guitarists Séverin Bonneville and Arnaud Ménard, bassist Denis Mellion and a drummer simply called Ramon recorded their A Path to Heaven demo in 1999, then began work on their first album Meeting in the Mist with new, Italian-bred singer Ramon Messina (ex-Secret Sphere) a year later. Tragically, a studio hardware meltdown resulted in the l...