Founded in 1994, Power of Omens has gone through quite a few changes as well as having to overcome several obstacles throughout the years. Founding members David Gallegos, Alex Arellano, and Chris Salinas aggressively pursued the dream to create a musical force that would allow them to explore the most artistic musical ventures their imaginations could ever achieve.
With a desire to succeed, the first demo was created in early 1996 in hopes of finding interested members, as well as a label connection. Fortunately, this led to the recruiting of bassist, Matt Williamson. The 4 soon began working on material for a full length release.
In 1997, with another demo completed, the band landed a deal with DCA Recordings, and began to polish the material for their debut release. Unfortunately, after a year of waiting, and no positive news or backing from the label, the band was forced to part ways with DCA.
In the beginning of 1998, soon after the departure from their first label, Elevate Records approached the band with a deal for world-wide backing and distribution. The band signed on, and began recording material for their upcoming CD, "Eyes of the Oracle". Released in June of that year, the band found itself in the midst of much media attention, and soon began to draw a rather strong following.
Unfortunately, due to uncontrollable circumstances, Matt was forced to leave the band prior to the release of the CD, and was replaced by Henry Sanchez. At this time, the band also recruited its first full-time keyboardist, Andrew Sanchez.
With a CD on the market, the band began working to promote their release by lining up live shows. Unfortunately, after their first couple of performances in 1999, Andrew was also forced to leave the band due to personal reasons. This unfortunately forced the cancellation of the bands scheduled performance at the Powermad festival in Baltimore, MD. Not long after this, Henry Sanchez also left the band.
Determined to continue, the band agreed to record a track for an upcoming Queensryche tribute, which was later released in 2000 on Seigen Records, entitled, "Warning, Raging Minds of Empires". The track the band contributed was "Screaming in Digital" from the "Rage for Order" CD.
Since then, the band has regrouped with new member, Chris Herring, on bass, who made his debut performance with the band at the ProgPower Festival in Lansing, IL, this past February 2001. This also marked the bands first live performance without a real keyboardist. All tracks were performed "live" with a sequencer.
Now, with the band back at work, the writing of new material has begun, as the band plans to head back into the studio later this summer for their follow-up release.
June 2002, the CD was completed, and is entitled "Rooms of Anguish". Slated for an October 28th release, the band finds themself ready to face the music and the possibilities of what lies ahead.
Despite the many changes the band has had to overcome, they have not stopped reaching for goals and setting new sights. The band has reached many people world wide, and has had the privilege of recognition through magazines, as well as wide Internet exposure (see our Links page).
