Starfuckers

The Profile

Starfuckers are an Italian experimental rock trio known for dismantling rock structures with silence, noise, and cut-up techniques; in the 2000s they operated as Sinistri.

Core trio: Manuele Giannini, Roberto Bertacchini, Alessandro Bocci. Italian avant/experimental outfit active across the 1990s–2000s. Later releases and live activity appear under the name Sinistri.

Starfuckers emerge in these reviews as a fiercely experimental Italian trio, dismantling rock forms with silence, noise, and cut-up techniques. Sinistri (1994) and Infrantumi are center stage, linked to Cage, Xenakis, Slint, and Tangerine Dream. The band’s approach oscillates between action-painting-like spontaneity and austere minimalism, with “Ordine Pubblico” hinting at later rhythmic research. In the 2000s they operated as Sinistri.