Contact Giovanni Santini

Hi I'm Giovanni and I was born in Palermo on 14 September of 1978 I started to listen to heavy metal when i was nine.In that time i was only a children but i was(all the same) hit by the power of metallica's"...and justice for all"an album that I consider(still nowadays)a masterpiece of heavy metal.At the age of 14 my interest in heavy metal music becamed total and my days were filled up by Iron Maiden,Guns'n'roses,Europe, Helloween, Megadeth. But only when i was sixsteen that i decidedn to learn to play the guitar.I was looking an"Iron maiden"video and when I saw the"killers"solo of Dave Murray i told myself:"you must play the guitar!".So i bought my first guitar and immediately tried to reproduce the song of my favorite groups.After two years my first experience in a heavy metal band,the Angels'Sword.In April'98 Claudio proposed me to enter in his power metal band.

At first i was a little swaing but when I listened to"King Of The Freedom"(now Under Siedge)I was stroken by the melody of Giuseppe's keyboards and with the powerful double bass drums of Claudio and so I started this fantastic adventure! After some years my interest in heavy metal has grown,and i was charmed by new band like Dream Theater,Shadow Gallery,Royal Hunt,Symphony X,Angra but also by classical band like Kiss , Loudness ,Bon Jovi .


Actually I'm discovering the most melodic part of the genre in particular that of the mid'80,listening on to classic,progressive and power metal tracks.The guitar player that I appreciate most of all is Yngwie Malmsteen,I think that is neo-classical stile mixed with the'80's class metal is unique all over the world , but I also like Dave Murray for his style so fluid,Tony Macalpine for the amazing sense of melody , Jake E.Lee for his supreme use of armonics and Akira Takasaki (Loudness) for his solos full of feeling and technique.Further more in my life i study law at the university of Palermo (maybe one day I'll be the band's lawyer!!!) and I have also different hobbies.for example I've been interesting for years in motorbikes's world in all his aspect : I'm interested since time F1 (I'm a great fan of Mika Hakkinen!) , I like running with my motorbikes when there is a good weather and in the past times I ran for long time with radiocontrolled cars , but I like also going out with mountain bike and train my body at a gymnasium . A big greeting to all of our fans!!!


My 10 favorite albums 

Iron Maiden : "Powerslave"
Metallica : "...and justice for all"
Y.Malmsteen : "Rising Force"
Y.malmsteen : "Odyssey"
Tony Macalpine : "Maximum Security"
Ozzy Osbourne : "The Ultimate Sin"
Europe : "The Final Countdown"
Dream Theater : "When dream and day unite"
Megadeath : "Rust in peace"
Shadow Gallery : "Tyranny"

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