Summer of 1996.
The keyboard player Luca was listening to his beloved Metallica, while his great guitarist and friend D.D. Jork was playing italian pop to enjoy with friends.
Sometimes Luca tried to convince Jork to listen to some of his favorite H.M., without effects.
After the secondary school degree, the two guys started to play their instruments on their own, but still too far to imagine what it was to be.
In 1997, after the split with his girlfriend, D.D. Jork sadly found Iron Maiden.
"Wasting love" of the Maidens was, most probably, the beginning of it all.
Luca and Jork decided to put on a musical band, then found Carlos, ex Skylark's drummer nowadays: it was the beginning of a great, long-lasting friendship started with the drummer, always ready to cooperate with Mads any time he can. They built up their playing room, and in 1998 they started the exploration of the musical world of their country.
At first they tried to be the classical metal cover - band, fully and deeply involved in Dream Theater, Metallica, Savatage and other metal icons.
But very little satisfactions came, in those times.
Carlos after a while received a collaboration offer from a local power metal band and left the project. After many useless line - up changes, Luca and Jork found themselves in 1999 with no live dates done.
The best thing that the two did in those years was the writing of a lot of original material, in the way that was to be the first Madwork productions some time later.
They then decided to do the only possible thing... they closed the project, but not to stay without playing they asked to a friend, bass player and drummer (that was to become someone called Trigger...) to play with them and jam a little to keep exercised...
Since the first jam sessions Luca and Jork made Trigger listen to the old songs written in those years. Trigger remained excited and proposed himself as the band bass player.
So Madwork was born.
It was at the end of 1999 when the three guys met to arrange the songs, with Trigger on bass and drums, but always searching for the missing elements.
So in spring of 2000 the drummer Max Lobue was chosen for the project, as a metal drum player very skilled and well known in the local musical scene.
But it had still to come the element that was to change the band completely.
In that period the band Desdemona (Power metal, Italy)decided to change the powerful and scratchy vocals of the singer Jago with the most classic and delicate of Andrea Marchisio (the frontman now). Jago was a Trigger friend for the many experiences shared in many bands in the past, and was contacted to show and explain the guiding lines of Madwork Project. Jago accepted to try, and after two sessions Jork and Luca decided that Madwork's future had to depend on the very personal voice of Jago, still the band singer.
With line-up completed at the moment, the deep influences surrounding the late Madwork took them in recording, in the months between 2000 and 2001, a three tracks demo-cd called Atlantis, born as a concept album concerning the legend of Atlantis, a theme exhausted some years later with the recording of the mini-cd Through The Farthest Times.... The work, not so professional as technical and musical skills, just was able to show the strong wave of new ways the band could reinvent the music they growth with.
Having Max at the drumset, the band introduces his disc at the "Asti nuovi rumori" contest, in june 2001, placing at the fourth place in a situation where the best cover-bands in the country had joined.
The partnership with Max Lobue ended in 2001 for personal incompatibilities, and Madwork found themselves without drummer again. In the meanwhile so much new material had been written, so Madwork recorded in autumn 2001 (as requested by a Record Company and with evaluation purposes only) the concept second chapter, a three tracks Demo-cd called My Midnights. This work, entirely with electronic drums, was not as good as the Company wanted, but the band did not care about, and in summer 2001 started the new album recording. The old band friend, Carlos, helped Madwork in arranging and recording the new work.
Through The Farthest Times... was born in 2002, after a two months recording session with Frankie Kfs and his mobile studio. That was the first professional band experience. For the most, the record was a success, and Madwork received a serie of positive reviews and the acknowledgement of being a solid reality in the underground Italian music scene.
Strong of this work the band recruited Daniele Galfione, a so classfull drummer and great technicism, living the most solid period of all. With Daniele the band prepared the live shows and wrote new material, reaching a higher level in songwriting, opening to electronic influences and modern sound, building an innovative and stronger sound someone called "postrock".
Unfortunately, wealth problems put an end to the collaboration with the new drummer, so Madwork, as other times before, asked Carlos to help them.
With the great drummer on, the band joined the "Asti nuovi rumori" 2003 contest placing at the seond place, also winning the "Best Original Compositions" price. After that the band was invited as special guest at 2003 Portacomarock edition.
Ended this experience of CD introduction, Madwork had a forced stop back again.
In the meantime critics found in "My midnights" the most beautiful album episode; this song was also asked to be included in Atlantida Vol. 21 compilation in August 2003.
Having not decided what to do yet, Madwork decided to record in another Demo - cd the material written in collaboration with Daniele, starting to arrange the songs in complete autoproduction in the little domestic studio of the guitarist, Jork, an audio technician working for years with many important Audio Services in the arounds. The band decided to produce this work at zero cost, and so it happened, as it had to be a sort of testament made by an unlucky band or, in other words, to be "the beginning or the end of it all ...".
Madwork decided that after this last work they would have leave it all behind. What, they discovered after few times.
Leaving All Behind was born in april 2004.
Production was so poor, but the inner strenght of the songs gave as a feedback a lot of enthusiastic reviews.
The band new style was well appreciated , and three tracks were asked to be included in Phantasmata Vol. 4 compilation in November 2004.
Thanks to that demo, in september 2004 they were proposed to be distributed by Self distribuzione s.r.l. and Le Park music.
Madwork in the meanwhile had recruited Fabio Dr. Ums as the new drummer for summer live stages, so they decided not to distribuite the lucky Leaving All Behind, but a new album, they were composing, to be recorded in a real studio at least, with a fixed drummer and a production worth of a full lengt album.
Madwork chose the Flying studios in Gravellona (VB) and, after a month of recording sessions,in november 2004 they had Overflow, eleven songs, produced by Madwork , Flying Studio and Paolo "Deadbongo" Pasquariello.
The album fuond the appreciation of the Discographic, so we arrived in 2005, waiting for the official release, waiting for a beginning or an end, too.