Karmian was born in 2005 under the name "When the Storm Broke". The first songs were written during those early years, but several line-up changes prevented the band from finding stability, leading to a split in 2009 after a demo.
In 2011 the founding members Andrea Baraldi, Mauro Leone and Nicholas Badiali asked Andrea Bertolazzi, former singer of Bad To The Bone, to join the project. With this new line-up the band was reborn under the name Karmian, and the sound evolved into a more defined blend of death metal with strong Swedish melodic influences. After some gigs in Northern Italy, the line-up was completed in 2012 with bassist Andrea Sirignano.
That same year Karmian entered the studio and recorded the EP Ways of Death, released worldwide on July 9th 2012. The EP marked the beginning of the band’s conceptual approach and helped establish its identity in the underground scene. 2013 was a year of intense live activity across Italy, but also of further line-up changes. Sirignano left the band and was replaced by Gabriele Gabrieli, who in turn left in early 2018 and was replaced by Claudio Nasi.
After a European tour and years of continuous live activity, Karmian released their first full-length album Surgere et Cadere in 2018, available worldwide on all digital platforms and physically from September 10th 2018. The album represented a major step forward for the band, both musically and conceptually, and helped strengthen Karmian’s name within the extreme metal underground.
After the forced stop caused by the pandemic, Claudio Nasi and Mauro Leone left the band and were replaced by Luca Marmi (Unbirth, Inverecund) and Michele Perla. With this renewed line-up, Karmian returned to live activity and became main supporting act for Venom Inc. during the Blood Stained Italian Assault Tour. Live at Slaughter Club, recorded during this period and released worldwide on November 30th 2022, captured the band’s raw and uncompromising live impact.
Karmian has also shared the stage with bands such as Dying Fetus and Mortuary Drape, headlined the first Under Metal Flag Festival, and consistently received strong feedback for their live performances.
In 2026 the band entered a new and darker chapter with the release of Horror Vacui, issued via Rockshots Records. The album is the band’s most mature and introspective work to date: a concept album built around real Italian murder cases and the psychological and existential void behind extreme human actions. With Horror Vacui, Karmian expanded their sound into a denser, darker and more narrative driven form of death metal, while remaining fully rooted in the intensity and authenticity that have always defined the band.
Today Karmian continues to move forward as a live band and as a concept driven extreme metal act, combining aggression, melody, atmosphere and storytelling into a sound that has become fully their own.

• Andrea Bertolazzi - Vocals
• Andrea Baraldi - Lead Guitar
• Michele Perla - Guitar
• Nicholas Badiali - Drums
• Luca Marmi - Bass