Ghost Warfare was born, if only as a music project, driven by Georgy Latev and Dimitar Naydev both from Haskovo, Bulgaria, when it was clear that not only our former band effort Solid (2006 – 2008) fell apart irreversibility, but we had somewhat matured and changed the style with noticeable dark and ominous motives lurking about. We had a few unofficial demo CDs recorded containing first 4, then 7 songs and a few live shows behind our backs with Solid, but ironically enough – things turned out far differently than what the name of the band implied. With the departures of both our former bass player Dimitar Dimitrov (March 2007 – July 2007, leaving the position open for Dimitar Naydev who surprisingly enough deciding to step in and add the bass to his initial vocal duties) and drummer Jivodar “Darko” Dimitrov (January 2007 – sometime around the spring of 2008) – each of them having moved to a different, distant city to work/study and live there, which made the rehearsals impossible, we searched for others to fill our ranks up and even expand, but we could not find any. During the years 2009-2010 when we were already in the process of recording our debut album Alternate Endings, we briefly worked with beginner drummer Marian “Yoda” Dimitrov but sadly (especially back then!) did not reached to a stable, long term engagement. We decided then to turn our focus mainly on song writing and recording, as we had Alternate Endings almost ready and an intimidating number of other songs were beginning to pile up (… and form what would later on be known as Outer Rim I and II ). So we finished with Alternate Endings in 2010 and uploaded it up on our then official site and sometime later – myspace. Immediately after that we decided to not waste any time as we had just picked up speed and were relatively satisfied with the results, so we continued with our second album. All this so far and the not so pleasant events and details of struggling to form and maintain a band, to find a more permanent rehearsal room and cease the constant moving that wasted us so much time and effort, while also working other non-music related jobs to provide for our families, more or less concludes the internally so called “Alternate Times”.
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A few years of not too shabby live shows across Bulgaria (Haskovo, Stara Zagora, Yambol, Burgas, Sevlievo, Kazanluk, Nevestino) had passed since we formed the solid (he-he) base of Ghost Warfare. We managed to build up a live set list with nearly 2 hours of various songs from our first four* albums and 2-3 covers (Therion, Iced Earth, Immortal, The Gathering), for color! ;)
Ah, 2014… This year turned out to be our most productive and successful in terms of what we had created, how many shows we played, how big and diverse set list we managed to rehearse and how closer we managed to move towards our grater goal! From the very beginning of the year were determined to finally release our second album Outer Rim part I: Beyond The Veil and while we’re at it - rerelease our debut Alternate Endings with yet again more sound quality related enhancements! And this time around we managed to do just that - on June 25-th both albums were available for listening on soundcloud and later on for purchase of digital copies from bandcamp! On that occasion we had the opportunity to work with high quality sound engineer – Cvetan Kolev (Tavana studios, Stara Zagora) who personally did the final mastering of Alternate Endings, aided us a lot for Outer Rim I and provided his skills as a guitarist for several of our shows in the second half of the year – thank you, Ceco! Another unexpected but certainly most welcome surprise was the newest addition to our family - Ganiela Ganeva, female vocals! We ended up offering Ganiela a place among us in March after having worked together on a common black metal project in memoriam of a dearly departed friend of ours that took place in February at Rock Bar INSIGHT, Haskovo. It has been a long lasting dream of ours to include as many vocals as possible, especially a female's one, since we are, amongst other things, influenced by such bands and projects as Therion and Avantasia. We are happy to say that she fitted in well and very quickly became a steady part of whatever shows we had till the end of the year and also recorded vocals for our upcoming third full length album Dusk Reloaded!