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To reach Tempestt roots it is necessary to go back to the creative
musical scenario of São Paulo in the 90's – that produced names
as Angra and Shaaman. At that time, Brazil was not yet fully inserted in the
shows' agenda of great international bands and the internet was just crawling.
Thus, musical opportunities for heavy rock were few and confined to some akin
clubs and a few titles launched by major recording houses. However, this was
an extremely productive time and many talents came to light in the poorly illuminated
stages of São Paulo. This is the case of Tempestt that started its trajectory
playing covers of bands like Journey, Kansas, Europe, Queen, Bon Jovi and Dream
Theater. What specially caught the audience attention was the form by which
music was performed, and soon the cover band got a legion of admirers. After
a short time, Tempestt played with Billy Sheehan and was chosen as the support
band to the vocalist Jeff Scott Soto tour in Brazil. It did not take much time
for the band components to notice that they could create their own compositions
and this was precisely what they did. In their debut album, it is possible to
notice the individual musician's talent and how much these years together as
a band were important to their technique. After hearing some tracks it becomes
clear that the band is ready and prepared to become part of the international
hard/heavy scenario.