A  T  H  E  N  A

Band was founded in 1991in Italy.

The name was chosen after the greek goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare.

Athena was the first band lead by the now widely known Fabio Lione (Rhapsody, Angra, Kamelot...) and two years after they released their first demo which was very appreciated byt the fans of the pure prog genre.
Soon after Fabio left but the band didn't give up and started to work on "Inside the Moon" album with guitaristAlessio Mosti taking up vocal duties too.

Lione re-joined the band in 1996 while Mosti left, and Athena continued withSimone Pellegrini      as the only guitarist.
They released the album "A New Religion?" in 1998 which was highly acclaimed and described as a small masterpiece in the prog-power metal scene.
Soon after they embarked on their first european tour supporting  Axel Rudi Pell.
Due to the fast rising popularity of Rhapsody Fabio couldn't commit anymore and had to leave the band again.

Pellegrini remained the only founding member active in the band, and along with keyboardist/songwriterGabriele Guidithey chose to start again with a new line-up focusing more on heavy/progressive elements rather than the power metal of the first records.
SingerFrancesco Nerettiwas recruited and, their third album, "Twilight of Days", came out in 2001 via Noise Records;

Athena went idle one year later due to various reasons, although some of the members kept on talking about re-uniting.
This dream finally came true by end 2019 when original singer Fabio Lione accepted to rejoin his first band and now 22 years after, the band has grown and finallzed its own sound, a pure delight of highly skilled prog metal.

The upcoming album will be released via Atomic Fire Record in Spring 2023, and will be a concept developed in 2 chapters.

Athena is:

Fabio Lione - Vocals

Simone Pellegrini - Guitars

Gabriele Guidi - Keyboards

Alessio Sabella - Bass

Matteo Amoroso - Drums