Tunes of Grey was born
in 2004 when Romero Grinerdam invited César
Schroeder to play guitars in his band Tundra, which
initially plaed only covers of Iced Earth. With
similar musical tastes and ideas, they decided to
form a band inspired by two of their major influences:
Sentenced and Poisonblack. In the beginning, Romero's
friend, the bassist Udayam Bassul, and Lívia
Cocco were invited to play bass and keyboards. Several
guitarrists passed through Tunes of Grey, all of
them being chosen carefully, including Leonardo
"Hackin" and Ancelmo Rodrigues, both of
them of the doom metal band Evictus.
The main instrumentist of the band, the bassist,
backing vocalist and composer Denis Coelho brought
on his music not only the heaviness and melody of
the finnish bands like Charon and To Die For, but
also the musical complexity and beauty of bands
like Opeth. The sound reached by the vocal lines
of Denis found the affinity of the vocal melodies
and poetries of Romero, giving the passional and
romantic characteristic of J.W. Goethe's literature
and the philosophical and fatalist tune of Herman
Hesse to the desperated Tunes of Grey' melodies.
Recently Humberto Boldt (ex-Amprizy) joined as
keyboardist, Leonardo Laruccia (ex-Prophecy) was
replaced by Douglas Hellmer (Darkscape) as drummer,
besides of Denis Coelho being replaced temporarily
by Luiz Paulo "Tarzan". Tunes of Grey
is actually promoting their first demo, titled Fading
to Grey.
"We're ceasing to exist while the green fades
to gray"
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