History
Dreamscape was founded by lead guitarist Wolfgang Kerinnis and rhythm guitarist Stefan Gassner in 1986. After numerous changes in the line-up, singer Tobi Zoltan, drummer Andreas Angerer and bassist Benno Schmidtler stayed with them. After very thorough preparations, they started performing live in 1992. After more line-up changes, they produced three demos in between 1993 and 1995 called Dreamscape, Decisions, and Changes. After that, in their own studio, the band recorded their first album, Trance-like State in 1996 and was released through Rising Sun Records twelve months later in 1997. In the wake of the CD production, several changes took place. The band decided that they needed a keyboardist as a permanent member. After a while, Jan Vacik ended up filling the keyboard spot. The permanent keyboardist caused three members to leave, one of them being founding member Stefan Gassner. During those twelve months in between recording and releasing, Dreamscape already thought up new songs. However, they were being delayed once more because Tobi Zoltan, the vocalist at the time, was asked to leave due to lack of motivation. Soon afterwards, Hubi Meisel replaced Zoltan as vocalist. After touring, Dreamscape came out with their second album Very in 1999. Since then, there have been multiple line-up changes and Dreamscape has released two studio albums and one compilation album. In 2007 and 2008, Dreamscape toured with Sieges Even, Circus Maximus, and Symphony X. In 2008, Danilo Batdorf replaced Michael Schwager as drummer.
In 2008, Dreamscape and Lanfear planned on performing concerts with each other, but lead vocalist Mischa Mang left the band to concentrate more on Ivanhoe, thus postponing the Dreamscape shows with Lanfear.
On April 2, 2009, Dreamscape announced that Erik Blomkvist, formerly of the band Platitude, would be their vocalist. He is scheduled to appear on Dreamscape's upcoming full-length album, Everlight.
Frank Marino will be the second singer appearing on their album Everlight. He arrived into the Dreamscape line-up due to health problems that Erik Blomkvist came across as a member of Dreamscape. Erik is still scheduled to donate vocals to at least one of the tracks on Everlight.
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