Derdian Announce New Live DVD Release

Symphonic metal band Derdian are pleased to announce the release date of the highly anticipated first live DVD of their career.

‘A New Era in the Rising Sun‘, recorded during their latest tour in Japan in September 2024, will finally be released on April 10^th via Bandcamp, available on the band’s official shop.

Pre-orders are already open at the following link – here

Derdian is a Symphonic Power Metal band born in 1998 in Milan. Proudly self produced, self distributed and independent. Their music is a fusion between symphonic orchestrations and thrash metal riffs with powerful speed drumming and unique easy listening catchy melodies.
In 2004 after two demos: ‘Revenge‘ (2001) and ‘Incitement‘ (2003) the band signed the first record deal for Steelheart Records and published the debut album called ‘New Era pt.1‘. In short the album became a little jewel among the power metal fanatics: 100,000 followers on the old Myspace witnessed the popularity of the band.

The raising weight around the web got the attention of the prog american major label Magna Charta and in 2006 Derdian signed for 2 album ‘New Era pt.2- War of the Gods‘ and ‘New Era pt.3- The Apocalypse‘. The fame in the powermetal world scene got huge, especially in Latin America, Asia and East Europe but the American label didn’t give any kind of support to the band so in 2013 Derdian split from Magna Charta choosing to be independent.

In 2013, after three fantasy albums, the band breakup with the former singer Joe Caggianelli and hired a quite famous Italian YouTuber Ivan Giannini, releasing its 4th full length album ‘Limbo‘. A different voice and a heavier thrashy sound with lyrics about modern society neurosis marked the new path to follow. The result of this new approach was great worldwide sellings and a brand new major distribution deal for Asia with the Japanese label Spiritual Beast.

In 2015 the band released the world claimed album ‘Human Reset‘, top power metal Album of the year in many magazines (Metal Hammer above all) and Power Metal webzines and top selling metal album on Amazon Spain for several months.

After participating at some international festivals such the Italian Total Metal Festival and the Made of Metal in the Czech Republic, the band temporary split with singer Ivan Giannini, busy in the pop tv show The Voice of Italy. Meantime the first greatest hits album called ‘Revolution Era‘ was released with the participation of internationally renowned artists as Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear), Fabio Lione (Rhapsody of Fire, Angra), DC Cooper (Royal Hunt), GL Perotti (Extrema), Terence Holler (Eldritch) and many others. The album came out on June 2016.

In 2017 Ivan came back and in the September the band successfully toured Japan, supporting Nuclear Blast bands as Freedom Call and Twilight Force. In September 2018 Derdian toured Japan again. The 7th album ‘DNA‘ has been released in July 2018.

In summer 2019 Derdian toured Japan for the third time in a row. In February 2020, after the last concert held in Milan, the band is forced to interrupt its live activity for two years. Taking advantage of this time to write the new album: ‘New Era pt.4 – Resurgence‘, an ambitious project aimed at continuing the saga of the first three albums.

On October 20^th, 2023 the wait was over. The album was released via King Records in Japan and self-produced in the rest of the world following the band’s proud tradition. Between 2023 and 2024 the band is engaged in an intense live activity in Italy and abroad which brings to also tread stages as important as Live Club in Trezzo sull’Adda in the famous Adunata Fest of Feudalesimo e Libertà and Luppolo in Rock leading to the fourth Japanese tour scheduled for mid-October 2024 guests of the well-known Evoken Fest.

The aforementioned tour is the scene of the band’s first official live recording, and the first live DVD is scheduled for release in 2026. During 2025, the band’s live activity continues unabated, with Derdian appearing in Germany for the first time, in Serbia for Europe’s longest-running festival, Gitarijada, and in September in Russia, where they performed for the first time in Moscow. In December, the band will perform again in Germany at the renowned ‘No Sleep After Christmas‘.