MOURNING LENORE

Voz/guitarra: João Galrito
Guitarra: João Arruda
Baixo: Joana Martins
Bateria: Emanuel Henriques

Formed in early 2008, Mourning Lenore are a doom metal band hailing from the ancient city of Lisbon, Portugal. João Arruda put out the band together, yet without a name, by searching for visionary doom lovers among the web, soon finding three of them to start the quest. João Galrito, Claúdia Andrade and Emanuel Henriques joined Mourning Lenore and started building piece by piece, brick by brick the personality and orientation of the band. Later that year, and after searching through several bass players, Joana Martins became Mourning Lenore's bassist to help spreading the melancholy and decandence so intimately connected with the band. Needing some more heaviness, in October 2008 Mourning Lenore parts ways with their female singer, Claúdia Andrade, and guitarist João Galrito assumes the role of band's frontman and shares his pain with the world. Later that year the band enters studio with Fernando Matias (Moonspell, f.e.v.e.r., Insaniae, etc) in Urban Insect Studios in order to record two songs which figured in a split with Insaniae to celebrate Daemonium Blog's 3rd anniversary.
After the great feedback achieved with the splitCD and gigs, Mourning Lenore decided to take the next step and find a label to release their debut album.