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The story
began in 2001, in Zagreb Croatia, when Slaven Nikolic
(guitar), Davor Vlahov (vocal/guitar) and Darko Demsic-Rudi
(bass), together with Vedran Hadziselimovic (drums) formed
heavy/progressive band R2 (named after famous Star Wars
character R2-D2). They recorded a 5track demo named "Given
Away", (review of that demo can be found on web page:
www.cmar-net.org ). Soon after that they stopped playing
together.
In autumn of year 2002, together with their new drummer
Neven Nikolic they formed band Fragment. They continued to
work on their new material (some songs from R2 stage were
also included in their repertoire), but because of lack of
keyboardist, were unable for playing live. That changed in
the very end of same year when Vedran Hrgetic joined them as
keyboardist and completed Fragment’s line-up. At that point,
they were searching for their own music style and combined
various music elements and influences. They had several
concerts during 2003. in and around Zagreb.
In 2004. They finished material for their very first album
called "The Masquerade". During this period they developed
their own style that can be described as heavy metal
empowered with rhythmical riffs and periodic progressive
influence. Main influences on the band were made by:
Masterplan, Helloween, Iron Maiden, Dark Tranquillity and
progressive bands like Dream Theater, Symphony X, Ark…
Fragment entered the Monitor Audio Studio; Zagreb, in August
of 2004. The work on album lengthened out to more than 8
months, mostly because of the lack of money. It is important
to say that the whole project was self-financed and self-produced.
The album was finaly finished and Fragment started searching
for the metal label to release it.
After some unsucessful contacting metal labels, primarily in
Europe, the band found a record publisher in it's home city,
Zagreb, Croatia, by the name of Euroton records (Capitol
festival). In the meanwhile, Fragment had a couple of
concerts in nearby towns and recorded their first video for
the song "A World Inside" (recorded and produced by Ljubo
Zdjelarevic) found on the album, which ended up being
nominated in category "music video of the year" on croatian
film festival "Dani hrvatskog filma"!
Currently, the band is engaged in promoting their newly
released album and for that reason and also for a chance to
play new material which they eagerly want to present to
broader audience is
searching for live performance opportunities. |
