History & Biography Exilia is a Milan-based mallcore/metal band formed in 1998. The band issued a CD called Rightside Up in 2000. The band had signed with G.U.N. and released Nobody Excluded in 2006. It landed in the higher digits of the German charts. The group had worked with the label for the Unleashed album and 2003’s Underdog EP. The group toured with Rammstein. The band collaborated with Amnesty International through the song, Kill Me, which addressed the American torture prison Guantanamo. The act was seen at Summer Breeze Open Air. A 2006 tour was cancelled when singer Masha cracked a bone in her leg. The band toured, in a somewhat lesser scope, in 2007. The group recorded a new album in 2008 and issued it through AFM/Regain in 2009. It featured engineering work by drummer Dave Chavarri of Ill Nino. The band released a single and video for the song Are You Breathing? Decode was supported through an appearance at SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, USA and a stint supporting Drowning Pool and Otep on the US East Coast. The group supported Buckcherry in the USA next. Elioalien left in 2010.
The band had switched to ZYX for its 2012 album and Eat The Beat Music for its 2015 one. Valerio left in 2016. Heroes And Dust was a demo in 2023. The band supported Mustasch in Europe. A new album was delayed due to the pandemic. The group was booked for the Sinner Rock Festival in Germany in 2023.
Reviews EXILIA - MY OWN ARMY - AFM 
Exilia is one of those uncommon cases where the more one hears the album the less one likes it. There were several warning signs to start like the female singer’s tattoos or dreadlocks. The guys around her looked like they belong to a mallcore band, but the songs did not sound too bad after the first listen. In fact, Exilia has a fair amount of actual bona fide heavy metal in its blood. Unfortunately, later listens sound more and more disappointing because one hears the modern nü touches, the slamming core riffs and the affected moaning of the vocalist. The first couple of listens had hinted at Echoes Of Eternity’s music and its singer Francine Boucher, although Exilia’s Masha is the better vocalist. Masha’s coarse vocals have some range, some feeling and some power. The whole thing though is weak. The band has included a Genesis cover on the album - which it forgets to acknowledge in the liner notes - which makes it all much worse. Mall metal plus a cover of a pop band, not too original and not too desirable. It is not all a wash though. Most songs do include some metal as said making Exilia actually tolerable. - Anna Tergel
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