Empyrios came to light in the fall of 2001 by the mastermind guitar virtuoso Simone Mularoni (DGM) and Matteo Mastroianni, with the will to create something different in the metal panorama. Their ambition was to push forward their concrete foundation on progressive metal, built on extreme musicianship and feeling, bastardized with aggression and spicing it up with a touch of the finest guitar and keyboard solos and symphonic orchestra passages.

In 2002 Silvio Mancini was recruited to fulfill vocal duties for the band. Their first step as a band was to record the promo CD The EverSinner at MG studios in the summer of 2002, produced and mixed by Simone Mularoni. It received great reviews worldwide and was promoted with a lot of shows in Italy, with a final gig at Symbol Club in San Marino (August 2003), along with Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater) and Astra, an Italian Dream Theater tribute band. The band established a strong relationship with Astra keyboard player Emanuele Casali, who joined the band soon after as the official Empyrios keyboard player. The line-up was completed in January 2004 with Simone Bertozzi (Undead, Gory Blister), taking over on bass.

With this line-up the band discovered their unique blend of progressive metal and thrash metal, leading to 12 new songs that were eventually recorded at Fear Studio. ...And The Rest Is Silence was released in February 2007 by Burning Star Records and gained enthusiastic reviews and awesome feedback worldwide. Their way of mixing melody and aggression was the key of such great feedback, but as soon as the first big step was made they felt the need to push both these sides to the limit, once and for all. By the end of 2007 the band parted ways with Matteo due to artistic differences and recruited drummer extraordinaire Dario Ciccioni (Genius, Twinspirits), who really helped push Empyrios to the limit.

The band released their sophomore album, The Glorious Sickness, in September 2008 via Scarlet Records.

(Source: MySpace)