LeVioN defines Spiritual Cosmic Metal, a fusion where the raw force of rock meets the high vibration of consciousness. Born to give sonic form to a profound spiritual awakening, the name symbolizes the soul’s ascension. It combines the roots Lev for Heart, Ion for Pure Energy, and Levitas for Ascension, representing the heart freeing itself from shadows to fuse with the divine spark. The project is a creative synergy between Ovidiu Joița and Liviu Căldărescu, a collaboration started in 1996 that evolved into a manifesto of light. Working as a single entity, they bridge the material and divine worlds, transforming powerful riffs into modern prayers. For them, LeVioN proves that art and spirituality can coexist in the same chord, offering a path of liberation from inner darkness. In an era of digital uncertainty, LeVioN adopts a clear ethical stance: all creations result from a human process of inspiration. AI is used strictly for sound design and synthesis under the absolute control of the authors. No track is automatically generated and every note carries the imprint of the human soul. The debut album Embrace the Light is a 12-track story arc and a map of spiritual transformation, inviting courage, forgiveness, and pure joy. Check out the exclusive Interview below:
LeVioN: We both started with a guitar in our hands and a teacher in front of us. Ovidiu came to rock as a teenager, through a cousin who put the right records in his hands, and by the end of high school the guitar had become the place where he disappeared: his mother would walk into the room and he would not hear her. Liviu grew up in a house where music was always on, with a father who listened with passion, and by the time he was a young man he carried a living library of bands in his head. The moment that decided everything was the meeting. Ovidiu came to Bucharest for university, we found each other in a band, and that is where the serious years began: concerts, television studios, recording sessions. Everything LeVioN is today grows out of that friendship.
2. Did your musical journey begin with formal training, or was it more of a personal exploration? How has that shaped your unique approach to your craft?
LeVioN: Both. We studied guitar with teachers, the classical way, and then we took what we had learned on stage, where the real lessons are. A teacher gives you the grammar, the stage gives you the sentence. That double root is still how we work: we care about structure, about a piece being built correctly from the first bar to the last, and at the same time we trust the moment, the thing that arrives when you stop forcing it. Our albums have architecture, but they were written with the heart first.
3. Who were some of the most influential figures in your early musical life, and how did they inspire your sound? Also, what’s the story behind choosing the name ‘LeVioN’?
LeVioN: We grew up on heavy metal. Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Dream Theater, Slayer, Sepultura, Accept, and many more after them, up to bands of today that Liviu could list for hours. What we took from them was the conviction that heavy music can carry weight of meaning, not only weight of sound.
The name came in October 2025, on the 17th, the day we consider the band’s birthday. LeVioN brings together three roots: Lev, the heart in Hebrew; Ion, the particle of pure energy and the movement of light; Levitas, lightness and elevation in Latin. Together they say the same thing: the heart that frees itself from the weight of shadows and joins the divine spark. We did not choose the name to sound good. We chose it because it said, in one word, why we were making this music.
4. What do you believe sets your music apart? How would you describe your sound to someone discovering you for the first time, and what emotions or experiences do you hope to evoke in your listeners?
LeVioN: We call it Spiritual Cosmic Metal, because no existing label fit. The raw force of rock meets a high vibration of consciousness. The sound starts from hard rock and heavy metal, climbs into speed, lets a thrash passage through here and there, and it is modern rock, built and produced today, not a return to the eighties. A track of ours does not stay in one place: it moves through several moods until the last chord, and the albums make the same journey on a larger scale, each one with a beginning and an end, meant to be heard in order.
What we believe sets us apart is identity. It is very hard for any band to build one identity across every album, and we think we did: three albums, and a fan recognizes LeVioN within seconds, from the piano intros to the way a chorus opens up. What we hope to evoke is simple. We want people to enjoy life, to feel that they are not alone, and to be better with the ones next to them and with the planet we live on. If a song of ours changes a single day for someone, it has done its job.
5. For most artists, originality is first preceded by a phase of learning and, often, emulating others. What was this like for you? How would you describe your own development as an artist and music maker, and the transition towards your own style, which is known as METAL?
LeVioN: Like everyone, we started by playing what we loved. Our early bands played heavy metal, and we learned the craft by learning those songs note for note: how a riff is built, how a bridge lifts a chorus, how a solo tells a story. That phase is not a detour, it is the school. What changed was the reason for playing. Years later, when the idea of LeVioN arrived, we were no longer trying to sound like anyone. We had a message, a spiritual one, and the music had to serve it. Spiritual Cosmic Metal was born the moment the sound and the meaning became the same thing. The genre found us; we did not go looking for it.
6. Music often transcends entertainment. What’s your view on the role and function of music as political, cultural, spiritual, and/or social vehicles – and do you try and affront any of these themes in your work, or are you purely interested in music as an expression of technical artistry, personal narrative, and entertainment?
LeVioN: Music is a vehicle, and we use it deliberately. Not political: we have no side to sell. Spiritual and social, yes, with everything we have. Our mission is to remind people that we are all part of the same energy, that the borders, labels and reasons to quarrel we have built between us are inventions, and that life is meant to be enjoyed. We Are One says it in one line: “There is no other. There is only One creation wearing seven billion faces.” We want to be heard, of course. But what we are really after is a listener who walks out of a song a little lighter, a little kinder, a little more awake. Technical artistry matters to us, and we work hard on it, but it is the instrument, not the goal.
7. Do you feel the rewards of your musical career match the energy and passion you invest in it, or are there different kinds of fulfillment you’re still seeking?
LeVioN: The reward we care about is already here, and it does not look like a chart position. It is a message from someone in a country we have never set foot in, describing their own life under one of our songs. It is a listener who writes that a track helped them walk a broken road and come out shining. Those are the moments when the energy comes back to us, multiplied. What we are still seeking is the same thing that started this: a better world, one heart at a time. We want the message to reach as many souls as it can. Awakening is not something you finish.
8. Can you walk us through your creative process? From the first spark of an idea to the finished track, what’s the most essential part of your process, and how do collaboration or external influences shape your work?
LeVioN: The spark is always the meaning: what a song has to say, where it sits in the journey of the album. Then we build it the way a classic studio does, channel by channel: the bass lines with the drums, the harmonies, the lead guitars, the voice, each on its own track, until the arrangement stands. We write everything, and the instruments, human and artificial, play what we tell them. Human Composition, AI Instruments, declared on every release since the first one. The voice alone took us a month of work at the beginning, until we found one that could sing across many octaves and keep its consistency from the first album to the third. The most essential part of the process is patience with the truth of a song: not releasing it until it says exactly what it was meant to say. The videos are ours as well, from the first frame to the last, built with the same care as the music, because the image has to carry the message the way the song does. And there is one external influence we never argue with: the inspiration that arrives when we stop forcing it.
Liviu – vocal and bass
9. What’s been the most challenging hurdle in either your personal life or music career, and how has it shaped you as an artist?
LeVioN: The hardest one is now. We have music we believe in with everything we are, and a message that is bigger than us, and it is very hard to make it heard. More music is released every day than anyone could listen to in a lifetime, and a band with no label and no agency behind it has to earn every listener one by one. What it has shaped in us is patience, and a different way of measuring. We stopped counting only volume and started counting resonance: the person who writes back, the radio in another country that plays a song, the review that understands. That is slower. It is also real.
10. On the flip side, what moment or achievement in your career so far has made you feel the proudest, and why? And let’s talk about your latest release and future plans.
LeVioN: The proudest moment was closing the trilogy. Three albums, thirty six songs, ten official videos, one journey from the cross to the cosmos, released with no one behind us but the two of us and the people who believed. Mesia, our latest release, was the video that ended it: the hardest one to make and the one that says the most. We Are One, from the same third album, is the song that carries the heart of everything, and it has now reached more than thirty countries. Next comes One Creation, on 11 September, and a fourth album this autumn. The journey continues.
11. With social media having a heavy impact on our lives and the music business in general, how do you handle criticism, haters, and/or naysayers in general? Is it something you pay attention to, or simply ignore?
LeVioN: We read them, all of them. Criticism from a real person, who has listened, is valuable, and we answer it. The haters are very few, well under one percent of what people write to us, and we have noticed something about them: our message seems to keep them away. It is hard to throw a stone at a message of light. Whatever comes from that place stays with us for a minute and then we go back to work. We would rather spend the energy on the ninety nine.
12. Creative work in a studio or home environment, or interaction with a live audience? Which of these two options excites you most, and why?
LeVioN: Right now the studio is where LeVioN lives, and we love it there: it is where the albums were built, channel by channel, with time to get every note right. But we are musicians, and a stage is a stage. We are waiting for the day when we build a concert that has not been seen before, a concert of the future. We have already created it, in the visual universe of our videos. What we are waiting for is the moment when it becomes real, and when that moment comes, we know how to do it.
13. Do you think is it important for fans of your music to understand the real story and message driving each of your songs, or do you think everyone should be free to interpret your songs in their own personal way?
LeVioN: Both, and in this order. We give the story: every video has its description, every album has its arc, and anyone who wants to know where a song comes from can find out in two minutes. But the journey through the song belongs to the listener. Our albums are built as journeys, and a journey is the property of the one who walks it. If someone hears in We Are One something we never thought of, that is not a misunderstanding. That is the song doing its work in a life we do not know.
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Review by: Naomi Joan