I was born on 16th November 1977, in Trieste (Italy).
I started being interested in music very early, teasing some toy keyboards and trying
to read musical scores.
I grabbed my first guitar in hand at 11, a very old and unplayable wreck. Some years
later my parents bought me the first decent instruments, a classical guitar first,
and an electric one later.
My first band was called Fire Dreams and used to play some Iron Maiden covers
and some original tune. In the meanwhile I was discovering extreme metal music and
started developing some technical aspects.
In 1993 I joined Subtraction, that, during the years, changed their name
to Obscenity first, and to Karnak
then. With them, with different line-ups, I made five studio albums and reached
a pretty good success in the underground metal scene, thanks to the Melodies Of Sperm
Composed album. In 2010 times were mature to depart from this great band
and pursue other directions. Their fourth album, entitled Laboratorium has
been removed from official Karnak discography and deviated to a parallel project,
on the way to be professionally reissued, in some time.
In 1999 I started the Goldenseed project in which I put in everything not
possible with a human band, experimenting with forcefully exaggerated arrangements,
speed and complexity. Two albums are done so far.
In 2006 I spent a period with Revoltons,
a great heavy metal band from Friuli, playing guitar and keyboards at once, but
we cannot continue together due to logistic problems.
In 2006 I joined Azure Agony,
a band playing instrumental prog metal, where I'm currently playing. Our first album,
Beyond Belief, has been published by the Italian label SG Records
in 2010 and is getting good reviews all around.
In 2008 I got in contact with Heiko Hoepfinger, owner of
BassLab and created my signature model guitar, based on a lot of
needs and ideas accumulated over the years, but never found in any commercial instrument.
In 2011 I also started to play the Chapman Stick,
the most famous and the first touch style instrument. In the meanwhile, together
with Stefano Mattiussi, a new project of electroacoustic music is born, using
the 8 string guitar first, and the Chapman Stick then, to counterpart Stefano's
electronic compositions. A first album is on the way to be recorded.
Lately, thanks to the increasing popularity of social networks, I could get in touch
with a lot of great musicians all around the world and start to collaborate with
them. My first appearance is for some guest guitar solos on the debut album of the
American band Gone In April,
thanks to Chicco Parisi Lalonde who kindly invited me in this project.
2012 begins with a new Goldenseed project entitled The War Is In My Mind
that is being officially published worldwide by SGRecords.
On a song in this album, I had the great opportunity to have as guest on vocals
Stian Culto, well known for having participated in the past in famous Norwegian
black metal acts like Mayhem, Shadow Dancers, ThyAbhorrent and many more.
In the meanwhile a new Azure Agony album is on the way to be recorded.