Gabriele Pala
This is the third and last (for the moment) album of Azure Agony, published in digital format only, right before we decided to suspend the activities of the band in 2014. This album features a totally renewed bass & drums section. We wanted this work to be a musical testament of what we did thus […]
I began to write the music for this album in 2011 with the intent to create a solo work mainly focused on guitar, after having participated with the song Kosmos 233 in an international contest called Guitar Idol, 3rd edition. After the competition (that I didn’t win btw :D ), Kosmos 233 and another song […]
This is the second Azure Agony album, the first one with vocals. Perhaps it’s the most melodic and linear music that I’ve ever written so far. Like the previous work of the band, the backbone of these songs can be found in the prog metal area, taking inpiration from the quite obvious Dream Theater mastery, […]
On this album I played the guitar solo on the songs “Immolation To Survive” and “Since You Are Gone”. Gone In April are a Canadian band featuring on the bass the incredible Steve DiGiorgio (who does not need any special introduction). When this album came out (it’s their first) they were instead an international musical […]
This is the first album I made with Azure Agony. I joined this band in 2006, accepting an invitation from the keyboardist Marco Sgubin to play three songs (written by a previous line-up) for a local contest. After that event we decided to continue as a band, to write a full-length album. We also tried […]
This album, dated 2010, is my list appearance in Karnak, a band that I was involved in since 1993. Perhaps this title is somehow meaningful. I left the band right after the publishing of this album by Copro Records UK, due to personal and musical differences with the other members of the bad, actually a […]
In 2008 I contacted Heiko Hoepfinger, creator of the BassLab brand, for the realization of a guitar built upon my specifications. At that times, building a custom guitar was not as popular as today, so why not choosing the most alien stuff available around? As you can see, the first thing that tickles curiosity is […]
In this second album of my personal project named Goldenseed, written between 2006 and 2007, i had the chance to experiment a lot with my voice. I tried to utilize different kind of voices, ranging from classic clean metal belting, to growls and fry, spoken vocals and even sometimes some high-pitched falsetto, along with all […]
In 2004, Karnak went mad. This is the apex of the progressive phase of this band. We abandoned the growl voices and any other kind of classical death metal directions, to land to avant-garde and obscure atmospheres with a lot of references to the great composers of the XX century like Ligeti, Berio and others, […]
This self-produced album by Karnak, dated 2002, is a tribute to the Italian horror filmography of the 70s, hence the title (it’s a famous Sergio Marino‘s movie, year 1972). The song are very obscure, but still brutal and aggressive. This works features a lot of guitar synth interventions, not all the parts you hear are […]