Artist Info: Lucaria

1) Lucaria is a progressive metal band from Finland, which was formed in 2002. The name ‘Lucaria’ is taken from the ancient Roman festival of the grove (Latin lucus). They recorded their self-titled debut demo in 2002 with following line-up:

Janne Hirvonen: vocals
Kimmo Kovanen: guitars
Teemu Tuovinen: keyboards and bass
Timo Karhunen: drums

After the first demo the band members were busy with their other projects and it took three year hiatus before the next Lucaria release, “Oculis Captus”, saw the daylight in 2005. [read more...]