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Carlo G. Rizzello
- guitar/voice
[pics]
Alessandro S. Rizzello
- bass
[pics]
Paolo Colazzo
- drums
[pics]
ESSENZA was born in 1993, when the young guitarist Carlo and his brother
Alex, bass-guitar player, started to play in many rock-clubs and
festivals of South Italy. At first, other members collaborated with the
band on voice, guitar and keyboards. Luca, the youngest brother, joined
Essenza as drummer and arranger, and enriched the essenza-sound playing
string and keyboards. In this period, their music was an explosive
cocktail of blues, hard-rock, rock and roll, prog-rock with classical
Italian-rock influences.
After the release of two demo-cds ("Essenza"
and "Algoritmo 60",
in 1996 and in 1998 respectively) they increased the heaviness of the
sound and elaborated an original melodic heavy-rock style, inspired to
the monsters of international heavy-metal (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath,
Ac/Dc, Judas Priest, Van Halen...), but with Italian lyrics.
Kick Promotion Agency
signed the band in 2000, and then they recorded two studio-albums: "Suggestioni"
(2000) (containing new recordings of the songs released in the two
demo-cds) and "Contrasto"
(2002). In November 2004 Luca left the band and was replaced by the
drummer Paolo (from the bands Abash/Shade Out).
In april of 2006, in the occasion of the 13th anniversary of ESSENZA
establishment, the band releases "XIII
Anniversary live"
(full available on-line), an unofficial recording of a performance in
Bari-Italy, containing original songs and covers [free download at the
page
downloads].
In 2007, the band promotes and distributes the EP "Dance
of liars",
containing English lyrics (for the first time) and the videoclip "deep
into your eyes" (available at the page
downloads).
In 2009, the band
joins the Armageddoom Alliance and the indipendent label BIGMUD
Records publishes the full-lenght cd
"Devil's
Breath", the completion of
the EP "Dance of Liars".
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