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Odyssea
12+ albums
Power metalhard rockitaliansymphonic metalitalian metal
about
There are few bands who share this name: 1. Odyssea, hard rock band formed in 1972 in Czech Republic. 2. Odyssea is a power metal band from Italy (Genoa, Ligury), formed in 1999. Odyssea project is born before 2000 when the guitarist Pier Gonella began to write songs and search for musicians in order to form a metal band called "Odissey". At the beginning, Pier Gonella wanted to create a speed metal album taking advantage of his guitar influences like Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen and others. During the auditions some collaborations started immediately. Pier recorded the guitars of the Steve Vawamas album "Athlantis", and later the guitars and the bass of the Wild Steel (Shadows of Steel singer) solo album. Then, Pier met Roberto Tiranti, Labyrinth singer. He liked the songs and Pier's guitar style, but because of too much musical engagements the collaboration is suspended. A little after Pier Gonella met Carlo Faraci, already famous singer in the Italian musical scene. Although Carlo always had dedicated itself to different kind of music from metal , the understanding with Pier is immediate. In short time they arranged the vocal parts of the entire album. They made a demo with the intention to contact some record companies, but subsequently they decide to produce the entire master. Then the drummer Chris Parisi entered the band. He collaborated with Pier Gonella in several musical situations. Between the end of the 2000 and the beginning of the 2001 the recording session
