History

Robert Bartlett , Alberto Teran, Tavo Quiros, Marco Salas and Alfonso Perez, are now known as LUCIA FERNANDA.

The band's first vocalist takes a job in Malta and goes. Six months of rehearsing, no shows played, and now no singer. Robert then moves to Paris and forms DearDevil, releasing one EP a few years later.

After 6 months of rehearsals with no shows ever played Robert Bartlett chooses to move to Europe forcing the band to search for a new vocalist. In september of 2009 after a long search Teri convinces Jacobo Chaverri to try out. The audition takes place at the band's first rehearsal space in Cinco Esquinas de Tibás and the rest is history!

Soon after Jacobo Joined , Tavo quit the band to concentrate on LOS WALDNERS, his other band. Back to the drawing board! Bass player auditions start.

A year in, still with no name, they narrow it down to a handful and hand the decision to their friends. Seven names go out: Renfield, No Stress to Impress, Rules of Shogun, Your Kindless Heart, Of Monsters & Men, Channel 5 News, Sleep Twitch. Fifty-two votes come back. Crimson Noise takes twenty, Monster Garden seventeen, All Things Absolute twelve, Of Monsters and Men three.

Logo is created by Andre Kelso.

He answers an ad the band posts looking for a bassist, learns the songs, and walks into a room full of strangers. He had never auditioned for anything in his life.
The five-piece it completes — Jacobo, Marco, Alfonso, David and Teri — holds for the next nine years.

DECEMBER 9, 2010
Two years in a rehearsal room, three lineups, not one note played in public. Club Retro, a Thursday night in December, the band finally plugged in. Teri's father had died that January. They built it anyway and got on that stage eleven months later. They survived it.

Andres Montero Conde shoots the band professionally for the first time, all assets for the cover artwork for the EP are Produced. The shoot takes place in San Rafael de Heredia, Costa Rica. The "model" holding the red flag used for the EP cover is Alonso Hernandez from the Virgin Zombies and Non Neutral.

Around ten months of work pass and the first EP is finished. Released on CD and in digital form on October 24 2011, independently. The CD version contained an "Enhanced CD" part with 2 more songs recorded live and in video at Jazz Cafe in 2011, not available anywhere else: MAIM and MAKE ME RIGHT.

WASTELAND is released as the lead single on the same day.

The second song off the Wasteland EP to go to radio, and the one that broke through. It played on 91.5, the only station in the country giving rock and metal real airtime — a station that would not survive the decade. The band took the song there themselves.

It was the first time their music reached people who had never seen them play. David Cubero at Estudio ESM built the campaign around a line from the song, "so now I care about my bones", the first of many things the band would make with him.

Seven shows in nine months, the busiest year Crimson Noise ever had. The EP landed in the middle of it, on October 24, and the rest of the year was spent playing it.

Jazz Café Escazú three times, Latino Rock Café three times, Bar Retrovisor once. Bills shared with Keep The Gap, Adrenal, The Movement In Codes, Miniblazer, Cabeza de Vinil, One String Puppets, Akasha and Time's Forgotten. It ended on December 15 opening for Time's Forgotten, one year and six days after the band's first note in public.

Mar 16 · Jazz Café Escazú
Apr 9 · Latino Rock
May 6 · Latino Rock Café
Jun 8 · Jazz Café Escazú
Oct 28 · Latino Rock Café
Nov 4 · Bar Retrovisor
Dec 15 · Jazz Café Escazú

Crimson Noise ends. The new name comes from one of their own songs, written two years earlier — and that song is what announces it, released the same day the name is.
Two days later the single is out, with a press release introducing a brand-new band from San José. It never mentions the four years behind it.

The band's first promotional single, released online through Bandcamp. Produced by Marco Salas, recorded by Alberto Terán at Noiselab Studios, and mastered in Los Angeles by Manuel Jiménez at Arimaka Music Productions. The song had been written in November 2011 and gave the band its new name.

The band's first music video, three months after the single, for the song it took its name from. Shot guerrilla style by David Cubero and the Tercer Ojo crew at the warehouse in Tibás where the band rehearsed — not in the rehearsal room, but in the run-down building around it. The concept was visceral, in your face, hectic. A performance video and nothing else. That was deliberate: new name, new direction, and the video had to say so before anyone heard a note.

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Released as a lyric video, the first song from Waking Tyrants. Video and single artwork by David Cubero of Estudio ESM. Karoshi is the Japanese term for death by overwork. The album was announced for November 2015 and released the following February.

FEBRUARY 21, 2016
Fourteen songs, sixty-four minutes. The band's first full-length album and the first record released under the name Dream Of Fire. Produced by Marco Salas, recorded and mixed by Alberto Terán, mastered by Manuel Jiménez at Arimaka Studios in Los Angeles. Artwork by David Cubero. Self-financed over eighteen months. Nominated for an ACAM award in the Metal category in 2018.

MARCH 18, 2017

Main stage of the Parque Nacional, half past five in the afternoon, at the Municipality of San José's arts festival. The bill that day ran Olman Briceño, Cantoamérica, 11:11, Alphabetics, Café Surá, Dream Of Fire, Voodoo and Cocofunka. The same stage had Malpaís on the Friday and the National Symphony Orchestra on the Sunday.

The band played Waking Tyrants a year after releasing it, to a crowd that sang it back. Several people wrote afterwards that they had never heard of Dream Of Fire until that afternoon.

Writing started in June 2016. The demos were built through the first half of 2017 — four songs tracked in four days that April. The drum kit went up and was mic'd on the first of September and tracking began the next day. The drums were finished on November 11, ten weeks later.

The mix was handed to outside engineers. It ran from December 2018 into the following year and never came together; one song alone went through four separate named mixes. Alberto Terán took the record back and mixed all eleven tracks himself, finishing on June 18, 2019.

The album came out four days later, the same night the band played its farewell show. Three years from the first song written to the last file bounced.

Released as a single three months ahead of Dust and Shadows. Written and demoed in a single day in May 2017. Three outside engineers mixed the song, and in the end the band's own production team, Alberto Terán and Marco Salas, carried the mix through.

JUNE 22, 2019
Produced by Marco Salas, recorded and mixed by Alberto Terán at Zorro Records, mastered by Manuel Jiménez in Los Angeles. Guest performances by Ricardo Arias, Andrés Herrera and Miguel García. The first Dream Of Fire record tuned a whole step down. The mix was completed four days before release. The album came out the same night the band played its farewell show at the London Room. Dedicated to Alberto Terán Victory and Vera María Chaves Gonzáles.

AUGUST 16, 2022

The band's first new material in three years. Produced by Marco Salas, recorded at Apex Studios by Alberto Terán. Bass by David Peña, recorded in January 2022; he had left the band in 2019 and travelled from Madrid for the session. The song was first tracked in 2012. The track was the comeback single and also features aditional guitars by Rafael Castro.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Written and produced by Marco Salas, recorded, mixed and mastered by Alberto Terán at Apex Studios, with Andrés Rodríguez on bass. The first Dream Of Fire release issued through a label, Long Beach Records LATAM.

Andrés Rodríguez left the band suddenly and the release was held back while the bass position was filled. With Álvaro "Jefito" Cubillo on board it went out properly, and the band played it at the London Room the same night the video premiered. The video was filmed, edited and directed by Emanuel Calderón of Grey Dog Films.

Nominated for an ACAM award in 2025 in the Hard Rock/Metal single category, one of five selected from 824 entries.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2026

The first single from Empty Altars Vol. I, and the first Dream Of Fire song with Marco Salas and Jacobo Chaverri sharing lead vocals. Video directed by Marco Salas, filmed in the mountains of Acosta.

OCTOBER 1, 2026

Six songs, 29:13. The first record made by the current five-piece lineup. Produced by Marco Salas, recorded, mixed and mastered by Alberto Terán at Apex Studios.