MetallAro

The story of this crazy man, who is registered as Vincenzo on the official documents, begins around 1:10 PM on a warm day in January 1986 in a small town near Cosenza, which at the time was known as San Marco Argentano, and he lived peacefully through his childhood until adolescence. Around the age of 14, he developed a passion for non-commercial music in general, eventually cultivating a significant interest in a style called "progressive." His musical preferences quickly focused on bands like: "Premiata Forneria Marconi," "Banco del Mutuo Soccorso," "Genesis," and "Pink Floyd." He was a calm, orderly type, a boy who, as they usually say, was: "incapable of hurting a fly." This made him extremely vulnerable to the numerous and repeated attacks and pranks by his peers. It was logical to think that sooner or later this repressed anger would explode... At 15, he got engaged to a very beautiful girl, envied and pursued by many of his friends. They loved each other very much, but the unwary man had never thought that everything always has an end. One sad day in April, he received a message on his phone — it wasn't the usual "I LOVE YOU, HONEY, LET'S GO OUT TONIGHT?"... SHE HAD LEFT HIM!!!... The sudden void that formed inside him, quickly filled with RAGE, combined with the ongoing abuses from his classmates, was the straw that broke the camel’s back! His personality split, creating a monster, an ALTER-EGO, which even (and especially) he feared! The monster loved chaos, night scenes, the suffering of others, brutality, and destruction against social conformity... but above all, HE HATED WOMEN! The monster also loved music and identified with it,... but listened to "SYSTEM OF A DOWN," "METALLICA," "IRON MAIDEN"; all to freshen his mouth in the morning, but by evening only BLACK METAL dominated. He could control and keep it at bay; "CRADLE OF FILTH" was his anthem!! His situation was desperate; his frequent and rapid personality shifts prevented him from proper mental stability. He was hated and hated others, isolated from the world of the living... At 16, something suddenly happened: his two personalities fused... slowly... gradually... until reaching around 17 years old in their most balanced and harmonious form... This is how the being he is today was shaped! Now he is a serene young man, but one who is respected and loved by his new friends. He listens to both the "Progressive Rock" he loved so much before and "Metal." His new psychological identity led him to develop a musical style quite similar to his fusion... he is passionate about and still passionate about "Progressive-metal"... and his new musical cornerstone is represented by "DREAM THEATER." He also likes "Symphony X." He also adores the legendary "ELIO E LE STORIE TESE." Recently, he became passionate about "Power-Epic Metal," discovering and admiring bands like "Rhapsody" and "Domine." Ladies and gentlemen, sorry if I annoyed you, this is the life so far lived by the person whom the surrounding world conventionally calls: "MetallAro"!!