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Dark Quarterer
12+ albums
heavy metalProgressive metalepic metaldoom metalitalian
about
The original group was formed in 1974 in Piombino and was called "Omega erre". Eight years of playing cover followed with no concerts or performances, but a continuous effort to capture the sounds and colours of the hard and progressive rock of those years. It was an absolute imperative for the band to reproduce the songs faithfully - they played dozens of covers of Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, Krokus, Grand Funk Railroad, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Gentle Giant, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Van Der Graaf Generator, Deep Purple, Ten Years After, Cream, Manowar, Michael Shenker, Colosseum… After hearing the band in rehearsal, Duccio Marchi, a great friend and keen fan of avant garde Rock, suggested they compose something completely new. The group thought about its degree of musical development and its capacity to create something both inspired by all the music already heard but that would be really different from everything. It seemed impossible to realise anything truly original. If it hadn't been for the continual insistence of Duccio Marchi perhaps Dark Quarterer would never have existed! Their first composition was too light-weight harmonically and too commercial, boring even on first hearing……….Fulberto Serena experimented with classical sonorities (Bach), arpeggios that were also veritable riffs, almost exclusively in the minor aiming to achieve the darkest colour possible. On top of this, the name "Omega erre" as it stood suggested nothing good. The name Dark Quar
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