Riccardo Pasini (da molti conosciuto solo come Paso) e' produttore, tecnico del suono e musicista attivo da piu' di 20 anni. Specializzato in sonorita' alternative indie e metal, il suo nome e' legato a molte delle migliori produzioni italiane (fra le quali possiamo citare Nero di Marte, Void Of Sleep, Ephel Duath, At The Soundawn, Sunpocrisy, Extrema, Beerbong,Actionmen,The End Of 6000 Years,The Secret) ed estere, fra tutti: Blindead, This Is A Standoff, Torches to Triggers e HellBros (band con la quale si e' aggiudicato il Grammy agli Indipendent Music Award di Los Angeles come miglior produzione rock nel 2012)
Per anni fonico del Fear Studio, ora in forze allo Studio73, Paso ha, ad oggi, all'attivo piu' di 800 produzioni. In ambito musicale e' il chitarrista della band Mercato del Vago, il bassista del combo stoner Void of Sleep e dei Kim in piu' a tempo perso ha un progetto prog "one man band" The Spring Fx.

Sounds from the desert, sand at the sunset, intolerable warm atmospheres, lysergic air and twisted hallucinations. Tuna de Tierra leaves for a trip with neither destination nor end, but just the purpose to move endlessly. 
The band was born in Napoli (Italy) in the first months of the 2013 from the long-standing union between Alessio De Cicco (guitar and vocals) and Luciano Mirra (bass guitar) who, thanks to the collaboration of Jonathan Maurano (drums), take them to the totally self-producted first EP recording. 
"EPisode I: Pilot", released in the June of 2015, is the result of continuous musical research and, thanks to it, the band collects lots of approvals, including reviews from several international music zines and the insertion in remarkable compilations.
With the entrance of Marco Mancaniello behind the drums, at the end of 2015, the sound research of the band can finally keep on going. 
During the 2016, the band takes part in some gigs and festivals, including the Sputnik Festival, the King of Stoned Fest opening for the north italian band Kayleth and the Pietrasonica Fest, treading the boards with bands such as Carnaval, Sunset in the 12th House and Blaak Heat.
In early 2017, the band went back in the studio for the recording sessions of the first full-lenght album entitled "Tuna de Tierra", released on September 22 via Argonauta Records.
At the end of 2017, Mattia Santangelo (ex La Polvere di Bodélé) join the band as new drummer, replacing Mancaniello.

I am a 486DX-33MHz-64MB processing avant-garde chiptune, synthesized heavy metal & classical symphonic music. 100% Synthesized, 100% Dehumanized.

HELL OBELISCO was born in the second half of 2015, with the intention of forming a well-defined musical entity, characterized by a heavy/sludge sound but, at the same time, by definite rhythmic dynamics. The engagement of Doc and Fraz (guitars) was the decisive step to start a shared path also in terms of attitude.
The evolution of HELL OBELISCO was mainly determined by the cohesion of the band and a refinement of sound and arrangements, made possible also by the addition of Fraz to the choirs. The band's style is the result of twenty-five years of activity in very different musical experiences, but it is mainly influenced by a cinematographic inspiration and by directors like John Carpenter and David Cronenberg, as well as the very first Steven Spielberg (Jaws) and Ridley Scott (Alien).
The debut of the HELL OBELISCO, Swamp Wizard Rises, is the natural development of a couple of songs composed for promotional purposes, which draw the attention of Argonauta Records, the most qualified label in this kind of sound. The recordings with Para at the Boat Studios and the mixing with Paso at Studio 73 highlighted the band's personality, taking advantage of modern technology and bringing out some particularly representative songs like Teenage Mammoth Club and Earth Rage Apocalypse.
The Swamp Wizard Rises features vocalist Tony J.J. (Transport League and B-Thong) and Carmelo Orlando (Novembre). Considering that every member of HELL OBELISCO is a fan of these artists, their collaboration respectively with the songs Voodoo Alligator Blood and Biting Killing Machine was not only a matter of prestige, but a quality improvement of the album in a general sense.
The reference point of HELL OBELISCO for the cover and the artwork of Swamp Wizard Rises has always been the illustrator Roberto Toderico, a fantastic artist who was able to capture the band's imagination and develop it in the most complete way. Despite a great variety of settings and scenarios, including ancestral rites practiced in the swamps, violent robberies and mother earth rebelling against man's greed, the central figure of the concept is a sorcerer who identifies the darkness of the human being and the world around him.
The release of Swamp Wizard Rises represents for HELL OBELISCO the achievement of a great goal in terms of creativity and receptivity from the widest possible audience. The intention of the band is promoting their hard work playing live in Italy and abroad, as this is the ambience from which the disruptive energy and the entertainment skills of HELL OBELISCO emerge in the most genuine way.

LINE-UP
Doc - six sludge strings
Alex - behin the skins
Andrew - front row mammoth
Fraz - seven doomed and lowered strings

DISCOGRAPHY
Swamp Wizard Rises LP (2018, Argonauta Records)

Written by Emanuele Biani

Naat is a post metal / doom metal / sludge instrumental band from Genoa, Italy.
Born in 2014 by the founders members from Antea, Lilium and Stone Smokers, three bands that attended the rock, metal and stoner scene for years.
Their intention is to revise the personal musical ideas and produce a preconceptions-free sound experience.
"Power" and "Atmosphere" are blend, accompanying the listener between peaks and sudden vertical drops where the dynamics develop and crumble into an instrumental kind of "stream of consciousness".
Album out in October 2016 for Argonauta Records.

New album Temporal Rifts out on Argonauta Records

A heavy musical journey into an interplanetary saga...

FIRST ALBUM AVAILABLE HERE : https://franksabbath.bandcamp.com/album/frank-sabbath

Progressive and psychedelic doom metal. First self-released album available in CD and digital formats. Second album coming soon on Argonauta Records.

Baptiste Reig - Drums, vocals.
Jude Mas - Guitar, vocals.
Guillaume Jankowski - Bass.

Rhino is a Sicilian Stoner Hard Rock combo that mixes elements of 70s and 80s hard rock, filtered by a common fascination for 90s desert stoner rock and the sulfurous influence of the Etna volcano. But the sound is distinctly Rhino: a monolithic fuzzy machine blended with psychedelic atmosphere.
 As someone says, “…it hums with energy, feedback and stoner rock vibes, rocking and shredding all over the place...the band keeps up a high level of quality while showing off their skill with a variety of approaches to the brain-melting material”.
The band was formed in 2012 by bassist Frank ‘The Door’ and Guitarist ‘Red Frank’. They were immediately joined by the drummer ‘Lord J. Frank’. After a couple of lineup changes, and the departure of guitarist ‘Frank Sinutre’ at the beginning of 2015, the band found its balance with the inclusion of two new members: singer Frank ‘The Doc’ and guitarist Frank ‘Real Tube’.
Since their birth, Rhino has stood out as one of the most active bands on the Southern Italian stoner scene, with a remarkable number of gigs, an eponymous EP released in 2013 and the full length ‘The Law Of Purity’ due to come into being at the beginning of 2017 via Argonauta Records.
Imagine yourself in a lunar landscape, black ash bursts and extended mirages: It’s only Sicilian Stoner Hard Rock, nothing else.

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