Thanks to you for the interest! I’m Andrea Tito, the bass player, and it will be a pleasure to answer your questions.

Your new album called « Stainless » will be released on June 13^th. Can you tell us more about this album ?

Sure! It will be a 60-minutes album in our own distinctive style, which is 100% HEAVY METAL. In it you will find many different atmospheres, and also some new marginal elements which have been introduced to keep the music always fresh and enjoyable: some violin parts, some special effects, a little bit of piano and some female vocals. Everything blends perfectly in our own classic heavy metal style, giving different atmospheres to the 10 tracks of the album, which keeps on punding from the first to the last minute.

Can you speak to us about the recording sessions ?

This time we’ve had the chance to record our new album in a very proper and relaxed way. This, because of the fact that we have used our own recording studio, so we had all the time in the world to play our parts, prepare all the arrangements, and take care of the sound and every single little detail in the best possible way. This opportunity differs a lot from the usual "3-weeks of full immersion" which normally a band with our budgets can get from their label. I think that you can immediately hear this difference from the first time the CD in your player.

This album was produced by Giovanni Spinotti. Can you tell us more about it ?

Besides being a very nice bloke, he’s a very experienced and talented sound-engineer: he has taken care of the production of the last two CDs of Labyrinth, another very respected italian metal band, and we really appreciated his work. We really got along well with him, and he showed us a lot of tricks while recording, and gave us a lot of very useful advices.

How did you proceed for the composition ? Who is responsible for song writing ?

The music for 7 tracks out of 10 were written by myself, while the other 3 have been penned by Piero, the guitar player. Lirically-wise, we always divide the duty of writing lyrics between Folco, Piero, and myself. Said this, you have to consider that there is a lot of teamwork while writing the songs, so all the five of us give their contribution to the creation and the arrangements of every song. This method may take a lot of time, actually, but it’s the only way to get everyone satisfied with final result.

What are the lyrics talking about ? Where do you find inspiration ?

We have always had many different inspirations for our lyrics, and this is something which I’m somehow proud of: are lyrics are very different one from another, and in my opinion that’s something which is able to keep the album interesting in tis entirety. Doing a track-by-track overview: "The Burn" is a science fiction story about the implosion of the Sun and the consequences on the other planets; "Bitter Crop" uses the metaphor of the reaping to talk about the troubles of relationships; "Princess Of The Wolves" takes inspiration from the japanese anime "Princess Mononoke", to give a precise ecology message; "Triumph of the Darksword" is about the third book of the Darksword fantasy trilogy by Tracy Hickman & Margaret Weis (we have already written in our previous records two songs inspired by the first two books); "Windchaser" is a folk-like song about how to live your life in full without wasting any moment of it; "Field of Heroes" is a story about heroes and how the crowd worship them then forget them; "Hot Lead Cold Steel", inspired by the movie "The Last Samurai" with Tom Cruise; "Lure of the Temptress" is about the temptations of sin and its inevitable consequences; "Bloody Mary" takes inspiration by a comic book by Garth Ennis about a killer nun with a terrible secret; "Impossible Infinity" is about a love story which goes beyond life, death, troubles and everything.

What's your favourite track on « Stainless », and why ?

My favourite track of the album is the closing one, a 10-minutes suite which is quite unusual for us, called "Impossible Infinity". I wrote the music and lyrics for it, but Piero gave a lot of his own for this track, creating all of the keyboard arrangements, which in the end turned out as a really huge work. Anyway, I choose this track as my favourite, not just because it’s very different from our usual stuff, having a lot of changes in terms of tempo and atmospheres, making it a really "mesmerizing" track, but especially because of its lyrical contents, which are very personal to me, and very introspective in a way.

How would you describe your music in your own words ?