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Quarantine: pandemic, viruses, lockdown, restrictions, masks, "wash your hands" etc.
Unfortunately all around the world we got used to these words and hopefully it looks like we are reaching the end of this nightmare, whatever it was.
Do you know that Quarantine is a Venetian word? Venice was the first city in the world to invent and implement "Quarantena" (which in Italian stands for "40 days"). This dates back in Medieval times due to the frequent plagues that threatened the city.
Venice was the biggest port in the world and every ship (and its crew) that came from abroad was forced to stay 40 days "parked" in one of the numerous islands of the Lagoon, to prevent the spread of illnesses unknown to the city. This of course didn't work all the time, because the hygiene standards were rather poor and plagues spread anyway, but in centuries the Quarantena practice saved millions of lives for sure and was then adopted by all countries in the world as a standard of health control.
I post a video of my Venice Quarantine Tour across the Lagoon, anyone can enjoy with me when here. 😃🤘

⚡🤘 Last Week on Venice Rocks

The Complete Venice Guide With Your Rock Superhost.

📜📸Venice 1600 Anniversary.  Read the Full Foundation History on Venice Rocks 
📜📸 Sestiere Santa Croce.   See My Santa Croce Guided Tour on Venice Rocks 
📜📸 Sestiere Dorsoduro.     See My Dorsoduro Guided Tour on Venice Rocks 
📜📸 Sestiere San Polo.         See My San Polo Guided Tour on Venice Rocks 
📜📸 Sestiere Cannaregio.    See My Cannaregio Guided Tour on Venice Rocks 
📜📸 Sestiere Castello.          See My Castello Guided Tour on Venice Rocks 
📜📸 Sestiere San Marco.     See My San Marco Guided Tour on Venice Rocks 

Hope you enjoy… and if you plan to come to Venice… come wander with me! 😃

⚡🤘 Last Week on Venice Rocks

🍾19 April 1957. Happy Birthday to Tony Martin, Black Sabbath singer and frontman for 10 years (1987-1997) and still one of the best…  Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
👨‍🎨19 April 1768. Canaletto, Italian painter from Venice, one the most important "vedutisti" of the 18th-century... Read and see More on Venice Rocks 
🎸20 April 1968. The Rolling Stones record Jumpin' Jack Flash. Creative Process: it was of course springtime and... Read More and Listen on Venice Rocks
🍾20 April 1967. Happy Birthday to Mr. Mike Portnoy, one of the best heavy progressive metal drummers and a legendary musician if you think... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks
🍾21 April 1947. Happy Birthday to Iggy Pop, a living legend and a true music and image icon who crossed the decades until today, remaining... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
🍾21 April 1959. Happy Birthday to Mr. Robert Smith (The Cure) a guy that can be immediately recognized fo his huge influence on the goth subculture... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks
🍾22 April 1950. Happy Birthday to Mr. Peter Frampton, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer, after forming Humble Pie... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
🎸22 April 1966. 55 years ago The Beatles record a song that seems to come from another planet, something never heard before... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks
🎸23 April 1971. The ninth studio album Sticky Fingers is released, the first under the new Rolling Stones Records, which symbol is this irreverent... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks
📜 24-25 April. Bocolo Celebration Read History here and Patron Saint Mark in Venice Read History here... 

Hope you enjoy ! 😃

⚡🤘 Last Week on Venice Rocks

🍾12 April 1944. Happy Birthday to John Kay, singer, guitarist and frontman for late 60s and early 70s American rock band Steppenwolf…  Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
📽️12 April 1985. Ladyhawke, medieval dark fantasy film starring M. Broderick, R. Hauer, M.Pfeiffer is released, entirely filmed in Italy... Read More and See Trailer on Venice Rocks 
🎸13 April 2021. Stars of Steel, Heavy Metal project made of 28 fellow Metalheads from Sardinia island, Italy, release first single... Read More and Listen on Venice Rocks
🎸14 April 1980. The day Heavy Metal came from England, Iron Maiden debut album and Judas Priest’s British Steel are released the same day... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks
🍾14 April 1945. Happy Birthday to Mr. Ritchie Blackmore, founder and Guitar God of Deep Purple and Rainbow... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
📜 15 April 1423. Francesco Foscari is elected 65^th Doge (governor) of Venice, a crucial and legendary figure for the city and the longest reign... Read History on Venice Rocks 
🎸 16 April 1954. Freak Antoni is born in Bologna, Italy: leader and founder of Skiantos, first and seminal Italian punk comedy rock band in the 70s ... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
🍾17 April 1964. Happy Birthday to Maynard James Keena, founder and leader of Tool, A perfect Circle, Puscifer and winemaker like his Italian... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks
🍾18 April 1974. Happy Birthday to Mark Tremonti, founding member, guitarist and occasionally vocalist of Creed, Alter Bridge, Tremonti... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks

Hope you enjoy ! 😃

⚡🤘 Last Week in Venice and in Rock & Metal Music History
From My Telegram Channel:

🎸5 April 1973. Le Orme, seminal Prog Rock band from Venice release their masterpiece Felona e Sorona with the collaboration of Peter H... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
  🎸7 April 1978. The Police release their first single Roxanne but BBC radio refuses airplay... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
📽️7 April 2009. The Fakir of Venice, Hindi-language comedy drama is released... Read More and See Trailer on Venice Rocks
😈8 April 1692. Giuseppe Tartini, the violinist of the Devil was born in Pirano, Istria, at the time part of the Republic of Venice... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
🍾8 April 1962. Happy Birthday to Mr. Izzy Stradlin, former member and co-founder of Guns'n'Roses and... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
🎸9 April 1994. Far Beyond Driven by Pantera is the most violent and extreme album ever to peak... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
🎧 9 April 1860. The first known and oldest surviving recording of the human voice is made in Paris... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks 
🎸10 April 1989. Sonic Temple by The Cult is released with a super production and best... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks
🍾10 April 1950. Happy Birthday to John Burke Shelley, bassit/vocalist of seminal heavy metal band Budgie and incredible sosia, double, look-a-like of... Read and Listen More on Venice Rocks

Hope you enjoy ! 😃

On 3/5/2021 at 12:33 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

Nice topic. I could swear we had a thread about this somewhere, but I can't find it. Ah well. I love that Sanctuary album. Appetite For Destruction was a huge album for me when I was getting into all things metal in the early 90s, but like you I haven't listened to it in decades.

I feel like I could make an endless list. There are a bunch of albums that had a big impact on me - especially when I was younger, but I'm still finding stuff that really sticks with me. Some of the standouts from my teenage years are Metallica's "Ride The Lightning", which was the first proper cassette I owned; Queensryche's "Operation: Mindcrime", my first "concept album" and still an all-time favorite; and Opeth's "Morningrise", which totally rewired my concept of songwriting. 

Thank you! Yes I tried to find some similar thread here before writing... then I decide to open one, hope you all enjoy remembering our past metal moments ! 😃🤘

Just subscribed to your Youtube Channel. I particularly love Fire Chant, Moonburn and Heart of Inferno! And yes, you perfectly describe your music as Primitive... don't know if it's in your plans, you could maybe try to alternate clean vocals and some growl (I'm not a big fan of growl, but in some cases like in Cerebral Ignition it could fit) and ... see what happens ??

On 1/26/2021 at 11:08 PM, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

Also local band to me was raging speedhorn. There a heavy metal band from Corby which is not far from my child hood home. Not listened to them but they've played a few big festivals in there time such as reading and download. 

I've heard of Raging Speedhorn but don't know them either... btw I lived for 1 year not very far from Corby, in Nottingham ? it was a life ago, in 1999

On 1/19/2021 at 4:56 AM, StefSabbath said:

Scotland - Alestorm and Gloryhammer. The first of which have about 6 albums and are in the Scottish Pirate Metal genre, or at least that's what I call them. They are definitely more understood from a Scottish citizen's point of view. But they are fun

Thanks for sharing StefSabbath ??... and yes, I'm a huge Sabbath fan too, maybe one of the biggest in Italy ?♠️

On 1/21/2021 at 12:05 AM, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

Okay so this one is quite cool. Ian Gillen from deep purple.ok there not metal music as such but I think it could be argued they  laid some of the foundations for metal but that's not mission of the post. In short Ian Gillen has holiday house  in same sea side  town where my grandparents have there flat. I hoped to see him on the Cobb pier one foggy day singing flat out smoke on the water. Would have been amazing but never happened. Maybe this year ???  

Great story man... if you manage to see Ian Gillian this year... take a picture with him and share here ??

On 1/18/2021 at 7:27 AM, Yowie said:

Australian bands:

Amagon - thrashy death metal. (I'm vocalist)

Just listened to Devils Spawn on Youtube, really a great track Yowie! My congrats and keep on thrashing, yeaahhhhh!

On 1/22/2021 at 10:57 PM, Valso said:

I'm from Bulgaria but I don't listen to Bulgarian music much. There is one that I prefer above all others but they're more like rock music with some metal elements - Obraten Efekt. And also Akashti Djudjeta (which translates as something like "Pooping Gnomes").

As for specifically metal, there is one with some good music:

 

Thanks for sharing Valso ??

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On 7/31/2020 at 4:37 PM, lia_kat15 said:

To me he was a poet, lyrical genius, and amazing musician

Indeed he was... artists like Peter are still missed for the entire metal scene

Extrema - Italy - early 1990s, still active

Dear Brothers,

this topic is self-explanatory. Metal (and metal-related) bands (famous, obscure, unknown...) in your country/region/area that you feel like recommending to other fellow Metalheads!

I'm Italian so here's my list divided per decades as concerns Italy, along with some personal anedoctes where possible ? Hope you enjoy it!

- 1960s-70s

Jacula - Progressive Rock, Occult Rock (Italy - Milan?)
Always been mysterious, their leader and founder Antonio Bartoccetti seems to have passed away recently, thus bringing with him the secret. They are indicated by many as the first act ever to deal with esoteric and occult themes and to bring a dark gothic doom sound into the world of late 60's rock and progressive. Their first album "In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum" seems to have been released in the second half of the sixties only to be played during esoteric and messianic gatherings, unfortunately today only the 2001 reissue seems to be available. Be truth or fantasy, I always felt proud of the fact that Jacula is a project conceived and developed in Italy, perhaps the country at that time less suitable for this type of sound and subjects.
A similar project in the late 60s can only be found in my opinion in the US band Coven with their debut album 'Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls' (it also contains probably the first Black Mass ever recorded on disc), but the sound of Jacula looks much darker and gothic and with extensive use of organ. By the way, little digression, the first song of Coven's debut album is entitled Black Sabbath, the bassist's name was Greg 'Oz' Osborne ... coincidences?

Le Orme - Progressive Rock (Italy - Venice)
Fantastic Progressive Rock band from Venice (my town) in the late 60s and early 70s, at the time much more famous and appreciated abroad than in Italy, the same fate that PFM had years later (they were the first Italian rock band to tour extensively the United States). The great Peter Hammil of Van Der Graf Generator adored Le Orme and translated in English their lyrics. I'm a lover but I admit not a big connoisseur of the progressive scene, but I consider Le Orme's 1973 album 'Felona and Sorona', one of the highest peaks of the entire prog rock genre. Le Orme is a band still active.

Always in the 70s Italian Prog Rock scene, but with heavier sounds, I recommend you to check out Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Museo Rosembach and Il Rovescio della Medaglia (their 1973 song "Alzo un Muro Elettrico" is really Heavy Metal!).

- 1970s.

Death SS - Heavy Metal, Horror Metal (Italy - Florence)
Going back to esotericism, occult and why not, satanism, Death SS from Florence and Le Marche region is an Italian band that I absolutely recommend. They were already doing in 1977 what many bands do nowadays in terms of music, lyrics and show, something really unbelievable for Italy at the time! Definitely among the creators of horror / shock metal and of shows and stage performances (face painting, skulls, blood etc...) we can see today in the Black Metal scene. 'The Story of Death SS 1977-1984' was the first Italian Metal record I bought back in 1988. I definetely prefer this one which contians their early rough works, and refer to the years of the satanic occult dualism of band members and mastermind Steve Silvester / Paul Chain. They changed a lot in following years but are still today a fantastic live act anyway!

- 1980s.

Necrodeath - Thrash, Speed, Black (Italy - Genoa).
One day in the previous life (early July 2019) I was at Rock The Castle, one of the most important summer Metal Festivals in Italy. By mid-afternoon we were all waiting for Phil Anselmo & The Illegals, following on stage Necrodeath, Onslaught and Overkill who played before. Old good Phil Anselmo shows up, greets everyone and says the following words: "I feel honored to play after Necrodeath, Black Metal before Black Metal".
I must say that I had never listened to Necrodeath with due attention before last July, but thinking about what they did in 1987 ("Into The Macabre" album) and above all where they did it (Italy) made me shiver and made me proud! How proud we all were that day, after the words of Phil Anselmo!
After this special mention for Necrodeath, I also recently re-discovered and recommend other great Italian extreme bands of the 80s such as Schizo and Bulldozer, widely considered seminal all over Europe.

As concerns the 80s check out also Raw Power (hardcore punk, crossover), Strana Officina (Heavy Metal), Dark Quarterer (Heavy Metal, Epic Metal, Progressive).

Alex Masi - Guitar Hero (Italy - Venice).
In the eighties while overseas Hard Rock and Heavy Metal were exploding in all their sub-genres and becoming mainstream, in Italy Metal was exclusively underground. Here in Venice there was a band that emerged above all the others: Dark Lord, they played pure Heavy Metal, they released some acclaimed demo tapes and singles, some you can now find on Youtube. Dark Lord guitarist was Alex Masi, an incredible talent! In 1986 he left friends and band mates and moved to Los Angeles, one of the few Italian musicians to do it and the only one I can recall... who actually made it!
In a few years he became a guitar hero in the hard rock and heavy metal scene, like his contemporaries Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen, Impellitteri, Kuni etc.
Today Alex Masi still lives and works in Los Angeles and is considered one of the best guitarists in the world, he can play anything at the highest levels, from metal to fusion, from classical music to blues ... I see him a lot and when he's back in Venice for visiting, he lives 10 minutes walk from my house!!!
I can't say we are friends, but we have common acquaintances and we often meet around town as we basically go to the same places. Highly recommended anyway if you love guitar or you are a guitarist!

- 1990s.

Lacuna Coil - Gothic Metal (Italy - Milan).
I lived in Milan for all the nineties, the number 1 city in Italy if you loved Heavy Metal!
At the time I used to attend all the places for the true metal fans in town: the Midnight, the Revenge, the Transilvanya, the Rock Planet, the Factory, the glorious Rock FM (first Hard & Heavy radio in Italy). Among those who frequented these places there were also them, the members of Lacuna Coil who I saw countless times in the 90s.
I must confess that I don't follow them much, but I know that today Lacuna Coil is the most famous Italian Heavy Metal band in the world! So I cannot but recommend them if you love the genre, in particular their first albums in the 90s. Glad to have known them and to have witnessed their birth and rise in those days! We were young and wild and free ?

As concerns the 90s check out also Extrema (Thrash/Groove Metal) and our "holy trinity" of Power Metal Rhapsody of Fire, Domine, Labyrinth.

- Today.

Messa - Doom Metal (Italy - Venice - Padua).
I strongly believe Messa is in this moment one of the biggest Doom Metal bands around, with a future that can only be radiant. I always thought of a legendary line that united the first Black Sabbath (at least until Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) with the first Candlemass (up to Nightfall).
Today Messa is added to this line (of mine), which now tells:
Black Sabbath - Candlemass - Messa.
Highly recommended!
P.s. Check out on Youtube their fantastic 11 minutes video they made in 2019 here in Venice for their song "She Knows" !

As concerns 2000s check out the fantastic parody band Nanowar of Steel (Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Folk Metal and many other things...) and our "holy trinity" of Death Metal Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance, Sadist.

Ciao!

Hi Guys,

I'm an old school Metalhead and yes... loved your album!

I'm always glad when I hear some good old thrash/groove metal, and that's what you are! I grew up with Pantera in 90's (saw them live many times) and I can find the lesson has been learned by Death Receipt ?

In the 90's I was also friend (and fan) with Extrema, one of the best thrash/groove bands here in Italy at the time, you also remind me something of them, check them out if you haven't heard before.

My favourite tracks are "Rage" and "At The Wall", but generally all Written In Blood looks great to me!

Out of 1 to 10, Vote 7

Good luck and have a nice 2021

Ciao!

On 12/19/2020 at 7:30 PM, Ludo said:

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oh sorry for that, ok understood

Can't believe is 5 year now without you, legend...??♠️

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This topic seems started for me now... I'm just 2 years late

During these lockdown times I decided to do many things I never had the time to do before. One of these is digging into the past in search for rock, progressive, hard rock, heavy metal roots and hidden gems. I'm creating many playlists on youtube, just not to forget all the music I keep on finding.

Here's my Heavy Metal timeline I'm still working on... whenever I find something that sounds (proto-)metal to me I just insert it here:

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Ciao ?

Ludo

She had many different experiences in her career and she's for sure an eclectical guitarist... but I wouldn't consider her Metal. Hard Rock, at best.

Currently I'm digging into the past, at the beginnings of Heavy Metal history in the first 70s, in search of hidden gems... my top 5 are:

Budgie

Dust

Rotting Christ

Buffalo

Warpig

Find the intruder ?

I was 13, living and growing up in a small village in the Dolomites (Italian mountains), and in the Summer of 1986 (at the end of secondary schools) me and my old time friend decided it was time to be rebels... there was nothing particular to do to start a rebel life in my village (and at that age), so we decided that music could be a good mean... we entered the one and only electricity and music store of the place, they usually had the same LPs and Cassettes for years as concerned rock music, nobody seemed to be very much interested in the genre at the time.

We already owned Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet and Europe's The Final Countdown which were very popular, so we decided to go for something heavier... we had no idea about it, nor the guy in the shop... we started looking at the rock cassettes and immediately Eddie trapped our lives and ate our souls: my friend bought The Number of The Beast, I bought Piece of Mind.

When back home I put the cassette in my father's 70s recorder and I was immediatly blown away by the start of Where Eagles Dare (still today one of the best intro songs for a metal album in my opinion)... from that day I was into Heavy Metal forever!

The day after everyone in my village knew what we did, but this is another story...

Necrodeath