italian metal

Unpure Grim Brutal Melodic Black Metal band from Italy Vastator Mentis - Vocals
Dei Nuntius Mortis - Guitar
Vexator - Bass
Carnifex - Keyboard
Aiwass - Drums

Giuseppe Scotto Di Carlo, conosciuto come Pino Scotto (Monte di Procida, 11 ottobre 1949) è un cantante heavy metal italiano, noto per aver militato nei Vanadium, per la sua carriera solista e per essere l'attuale cantante e frontman dei Fire Trails. Parallelamente alla sua carriera musicale, è noto per le sue opinioni, spesso condite da un linguaggio volgare, colorito ed esplicito, con cui Scotto si scaglia contro la politica italiana, il mondo dello spettacolo e l'industria musicale, rivolgendosi a tutti quegli artisti che...

Hailing from Milan, the five-piece Vanadium were one of Italy's first successful heavy metal bands, releasing a string of quite popular LPs throughout the early '80s before being outpaced by a quickly evolving national scene as the decade wore on. In fact, the second half of their career saw a creatively weakened Vanadium rudely subjected to both ridicule and scorn by the next generation of Italian heavy metal bands, most of whom failed to realize the older band's hokey stage banter and...

The original group was formed in 1974 in Piombino and was called "Omega erre". Eight years of playing cover followed with no concerts or performances, but a continuous effort to capture the sounds and colours of the hard and progressive rock of those years.
It was an absolute imperative for the band to reproduce the songs faithfully - they played dozens of covers of Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, Krokus, Grand Funk Railroad, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Gentle Giant, Genesis...