Biography

It all began around 1998, when two long time friends who used to spend their summer vacations together, Andreas V. – guitar and Vagelis Lekos – bass, decided to form a band, eventually named “Floating Worlds”.

After a lot of failed attempts to record their first songs, they succeeded in completing their first album, entitled “Only A Dream, Can Kill A Dream…” in the autumn of 2007. Following the completion of the recordings, the obvious need to promote the new album through live performances, made the search for permanent band members imperative and finally the first gig of the “Only A Dream… Tour ’10 – ‘12”, took place on May 2010.

This tour came to an end after 17 gigs on July 2012 with a lot of lineup changes, of which the most important and crucial for the future of the band, were the departure of co-founder V.Lekos on November 2010 and the taking over of the male vocals by Jon Soti, on November 2011.

The band entered the studio in December 2012, in order to record their second full length studio album, entitled “Below The Sea Of Light” which was released on October 1st 2013.

On February 2014, the first show of the: “Sea Of Light Tour ’14 – ‘15” took place in Athens, Greece. The milestone of this period was definitely the first European tour of the band in March 2015, simultaneously with the taking over of the bass by Mike Papadopoulos.

In November 2015, the “Sea Of Light Tour ’14 – ‘15” ended with four memorable shows in Serbia and immediately afterwards, the band entered a two year period of composing the songs of their third album. Following the completion of the recordings, the band performed a small number of shows in Russia, in March 2018.

“Battleship Oceania” was released on May 17^th, 2019 and is the first concept album of the band, where the main character of the story Lieutenant David Smith, is narrating the adventurous story of the legendary Battleship Oceania and its crew.

Due to the pandemic outbreak globally during the first weeks of 2020 and the prohibition of any concerts for the following two years, the band decided to focus fully during this two-year period, on the composition of new songs for their fourth album. 

The new album of Floating Worlds is entitled “Skywatcher” and was released on June 21st, 2024.

“Skywatcher” is the band’s 4th studio album. It is a ten song concept album, where the famous journalist Paul Rogers narrates a very strange and sorrowful case he had covered as a reporter in the past, about the mysterious disappearance of Winston Smith, a nine year old boy who hoped that by observing the sky through a telescope, he could one night meet his lost father in a distant star.

A sequence of strange occasions and events led Winston to an intergalactic adventurous experience, which resulted in his disappearance under unspecified circumstances, one autumn night of September.
Did Winston finally manage to meet his father, somewhere at a distant edge of the universe?

In order to achieve the appropriate music coating of the story of “Skywatcher”, Floating Worlds explored, for the first time, uncharted “music oceans”, in order to approach as close as possible the vibe of the band’s favorite science fiction movies of the 80s and 90s.