CASAGRANDE – “Inferno” from album “Casagrande”
Simone Casagrande was born in Soncino, an ancient village in Northern Italy on June the 20th 1973.
After a long gestation process the homonymous album “Casagrande” was released on October 15th 2020, by French label Soman Records.".
He was born in Soncino, an ancient village in Northern Italy on June the 20th1973.Since the childhood he had been interested in playing musical instruments, but until the age of 13 he didn't begin to play any. His music teacher at the middle school was used to play:” The final countdown” from the band “Europe” on the accordion. He really liked that song. His father is an accordionist, so he asked him to teach him how to play it. He practised the accordion for about two years, learning some kind of waltz, too. In the meantime some of his peers begun listening to metal bands. A couple of them were living closer and listening at extreme volume their favourite songs .He got interested and went to his neighbours asking to borrow a music-cassette. He chose : “The number of the Beast ”by Iron Maiden and “Ride the lightning” of Metallica .He loved that music immediately, and left the accordion to play the guitar. Firstly he bought a classical guitar and learned the basic techniques within a method created for the Commodore 64.At the age of 17, he bought my first electric guitar, a very used Kaway Aquarius Custom. It was impossible to find out musicians in his surroundings to play metal, so he joined some cover bands. With the “Nessuno” he played my first gig. Afterwards he recorded his first demo tape, helped by a classmate who created drums and bass through his Commodore AMIGA. In that age, there were just a few ways of promotion. In the late 1993heformed the band Castigohttp://youtu.be/cBBhRG3cpkg.Theyrecorded a 3 tracks demo tape, but after a quarrel he quitted the band. Then he joined the death metal band “Aphelion” to play this gighttp://youtu.be/QYvKdm8DlDs. After a couple of years and some gigs the band decided to change its musical style and he disagreed ...So he tried to play a different kind of music, but he felt it more challenging and less satisfactory. In the middle of 1999,hebegan with his home recording solo project. It had been quite a disaster. So in 2003heretired.Heturned back to the classical guitar and dedicated himself to it completely, selling part of his electric instrumentation. Five years later, he changed my mind again, but he didn't want to make the same previous mistakes. Registering on the Facebook network he got in touch with old friends, members of the “Aphelion” band. Talking with them about his desire to record again some track she was surprised to understand they wished to help him...and that's it. His first homonymous full-length album released on October15th2020 by French Soman Records
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