Current Members: Eneas : keyboard Jose : guitar Juan : vocals Rivas : drums Iban : guitar
Status: Active Country: Spain Active From: 2000- Genre: Pagan Metal/Death Metal Style: Epic/Viking Metal
Runic has born in Castellón (Spain). Some people have defined the style of the band as melodic and epic Death Metal; others as Viking Metal, and the rest say that Runic plays Pagan Metal... It really doesn´t matter, because Runic considers its sound as a mixture of these three varieties: The band has a strong admiration for the vikings, they think that Paganism is a need of freedom in a Christian society, and finally, their influences come from melodic Death Metal (between others...). What the band actually tries to get is the spirit that all these varieties of metal reflect... Through the ages many different sounds have represented the warrior spirit; from traditional songs to soundtrack movies, from folk to Metal... All these kinds of music influences Runic and the reflection of this feeling is what the band is really attracted to...
The band started to rehearse in the middle of 2001. To date the band has put in the market its first and only recording called "Awaiting the Sound of the Unavoidable". This CD is made up by six tracks, five of them composed by Runic and the last one, "The Search" , a metal adaptation of the soundtrack movie "Conan the Barbarian" composed by the master Basil Poledouris. This song is a little tribute to this genius and his supreme composition. The CD was recorded in Rocketes studios with the sound engineer Alberto (also Templario´s guitar) in the middle of 2000. There are collaborations in the band as Fran (Templario´s voice and bass) who plays flutes, pipe and many ancient instruments...and J.V. Sirerol (chorus arrengements). This first recording has had an excellent acceptance by the people.