DGM formed in 1994 as a complete instrumental band. The original line-up featured Diego Reali (guitar), Maurizio Pariotti (keyboards) and Gianfranco Tassella (drums) and after one year only Marco Marchiori (bass) joined the band.
The live acts become now very frequent and so the band starts working on their first official release, the self-produced miniCD ‘Random Access Zone’ in which appears the just-recruited superb vocalist, Luciano Regoli, former with several seminal Italian bands of the seventies. So he will be able to form his own personal style, mixing his "seventies mark" with the power vein of the band. The miniCD, distributed through 99th Floor circuit, obtains a very high response in the whole power-speed metal scene and so the guys at 99th Floor decide to produce their first full-length album on their label, Elevate Records. In the summer of ’97, the band complete ‘Change Direction’, that will be out on November of the same year. The album receives great responses practically everywhere, not only in Italy but also in Germany, Finland, Denmark, etc. and the band starts an Italian tour that will occupy their time during the first part of ’98. In September ’98 DGM is back and focus its attention on the material for the comeback album. In this period, long-time partner Gianfranco and the band decide to part company. The split is pretty amicable and that’s the reason why Gianfranco willingly accepts to collaborate as sound engineer for the recording sessions of the new album. New drummer is Fabio Costantino. DGM enter the studio in January ’99 where they will stay ‘til the end of February. Coming out, they take with them the sounds that will form their incredible second album, titled
‘WINGS OF TIME’
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