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Lunocode is an Italian Progressive Metal band formed in September 2004 under the name "Anima" by Paride Mazzoni, Perseo Mazzoni, Giordano Boncompagni and Francesco Rossi. The band gathers various influences from Dream Theater to Stratovarius, from Fates Warning to Pain Of Salvation, from Pop music to Rock music to film soundtracks. In 2005 Cecilia Menghi was hired to fill the vocalist position.

In 2007 the band produces the first demo cd, called "Birth". The "Birth" demo quickly gathered much interest from many internet Rock/Metal portals and helped the band gain national reputation in Italian underground music scene.

In 2009 the band starts the recordings of their 2nd studio work, the EP "Last Day of the Earth", recorded, edited and produced by drummer Perseo Mazzoni, mixed and engineered by Davide Fatemi (known for his work with Italian singer Povia) and mastered by Ronan Chris Murphy in his Veneto West studio in Los Angeles.

In winter 2010 the band obtained a contract with Spider Rock Promotion that released "Last Day of the Earth" on all major internet music stores like iTunes, Amazon, Zune, Shazam, Napster and many more. At the same time singer Cecilia Menghi decided to leave the band due to personal reasons and the band itself decided to rename from "Anima" to "Lunocode", because they wanted to find a name that could describe the band with no room for errors (Anima is a very common name for a band).

After the recording sessions of "Last Day of the Earth" finished, the band started to work at their first Full Lenght album and, at the end of 2010, they started working on a new EP to be released before the Full Lenght come out, due to the great amount of work to be developed for a so ambitious project the full lenght will be.