Funeral Rain Records is a Canadian label run by Dustin Ekman, aka General Blaspheme. Specializing in black metal and soon diversifying into death metal and electronic areas, the roster currently includes LA's Ritual, the UK's Legions of Crows, Intra Tenebrae, and Spectre, and Canada's Sector M. The Funeral Rain Records Digital arm of the label has California's Looking Down currently signed, as well as Canadian harsh noise project CARSST.

Hell Rippers is a Hard 'n' Heavy band from Milan. Four guys began to play togheter at the high school, as usual, starting to cover thier favorite group such as Iron Maiden and Metallica. This beginning influences on the style of the band wich aim is to reproduce the great and heavy sound of the early Metallica or Motorhead and the melodic style of group such as Iron Maiden, Helloween and so on... So the stuff of this band are mostly heavy speed song, and melodic ballads, all the lyrics are a quite epic, inspired from milton, romantic ballad's, comics. The members are: Samuele Torresani, on main voice and bass guitar. He's the engine of the band, writing the most of the music and the whole lyrics of the songs. Davide Montanari on the main guitar, who aid in the carrying out of the songs with great shredding-inspired solos and heavy and fast riffs. Bruno Minini, who is actually the rock soul of the band, he's the most realizer of melodic clean riffs. The last, but not the least is Gabriele Faoro on the drum that gives a grate improvement in the sound of the band thanks to his studies and his passion on prog.

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