Actual lineup:
stuart franzoni: drums
david genovese: right guitar
gabriel sassone: left guitar/solo
riccardo ponzi: bass
nicola guidone: voices

Past members: Damiano Genovese (voices), Antonio Piscitelli (bass), Geppo (left guitar).

The Semeion project was born in the early 1994 and formed by Stuart (drums), Antonello (guitar) and Damiano (vocals). After few months of unstability, the line-up changed replacing Antonello with Damiano’s brother, David, and including Tonino (bass). In the first period Semeion played a kind of death-doom influenced by Tiamat, My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost. At the end of 1994 a demo-tape, Sconnessi, was released. It was recorded live at “Be Bop A Lula” in Ladispoli (Rome) where the band presented their own songs and a Nick Cave cover, “The Mercy Seat”. It was a very productive period for Semeion, that in the next years played many live acts. A second demo, Fuori Tema, was recorded in a professional studio in 1996. The new work, made all of new songs (except Maschere), seems to be more mature with more complex songs and obviously a better production. In 1998 the band felt the need of new ideas and a second guitarist, Geppo, joined Semeion to face the new songs that the band is making. Three years later Tonino and Geppo left the band and Semeion faced a dark period, with many line-up problems; at the same time, Stuart played with other metal bands like Corpsefucking Art and Perfidy Biblical. But in 2004, the band was born again. In a few time Gabriel (guitar) and Riccardo (bass with Forgotten Lore), joined Semeion. The band found new energy and started to compose again. In June 2006 a new singer, Nicola, replaced Damiano and after some months Semeion started to record a new work called “94.07” that will be released in November 2007. This new work is made of 4 brand new songs and a full revisited version of Maschere (Masks).