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26900 Lodi - Italy
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. . : : the RIPPER tattoo : : . .
via De Filippo 23
20090 Pieve Em.le (mi) - Italy
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. . : : THE RIPPER TATTOO PRODUCTIONS : : . .
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12 € / 15 us $ (postage not included)
Clod "the ripper" arises the 5th February 1981 in Milan, Italy.
Already from the age of 6/7 years the parents and teachers notice his artistic capacities advising him, at the end of the junior high schools, to develop his dowries frequenting an artistic secondary school. Considering the drawing as only a hobby, Clod chooses the scientific secondary school, even if his wish to study will go year after year because of his varied interests, between which, further on sets to metal music, the drawing.
The passion for tattoo arises in him at the age of 15/16 years, certainly bound to the musical metal environment ( Clod is assiduous concert frequenter and musician ). Since 15 years to 18 Clod has desperately tried to have it tattooed, but, dates his smallest age, he's forced to tattoo himself with the classical method needle and slope! Doing so it will start tattooing also several friends.
Reached the major age makes himself finally tattooed marking so for ever his destiny: Clod will be tattooist! Also pushed by the oldest brother to undertake the street of body-art, Clod starts being turned for the various shops of Milan searching for someone which can teach him the art of tattoo. Between the innumerable rubbish is able to find help in a couple of tattoo studies, where acquires soon the first rudiments on the tattoo machines, the draft of the blacks and later of the colours and the technique of the needle assembly. Clod executes the first tattoo on January 20th of '00, obviously on him itself! Unfortunately, only 5 days later, an accident forces him to stop tattooing until the summer of the same year.
Not without problems Clod catches up in hand the tattoo machine until the day in which, in the summer of '01, is offered to him to work in the study where was apprentice!
In the years to follow he will collaborate at several Italian studies ( Claudio Pittan, Marco Ruffa and many others ) and was contacted by some shops from the States, declining the invitations because of the many engagements which bind him (unfortunately) at his Milan! Actually you can find him at "Il Pellerossa Tattoo" of Giancarlo Capra in Lodi - Italy.
He takes part in varied conventions in Europe planning at his time the "TATTOOing METAL fest", event which joins performance of "Art-Fusion" to metal music concerts.
With the time he has developed a very delicate and detailed art, done of rich shades and lines well balanced, besides define always more his horror personality.
Besides tattoo, from the age of 16 Clod executes piercing (even though this has remained only a passion); he playes bass, drums and sings in several metal bands, he loves horror movies and comics and he collects action figures of movie maniacs and horror movies.
As regards the music furthermore collaborates with very a lot of bands: Alice In Darkland ( goth death metal with which he records 2 demos and the first cd ), Gory Blister ( technical death metal ), Neophyte ( brutal death which participates with to an American copilation ), Darkness thy Counts ( black metal with wich records the first cd ) besides varied others band which takes part to international festivals as Brutal Assault in Czech Rep. or Gods of Metal in Italy.
In the summer of '05 he founds, together with other friends, Frost Foundation records ( recording label and agency of booking and promotions ) managing the metal section until the summer of 2006.
Furthermore he plays hundreds of live shows in all Europe with supporting bands as Tiamat, Ministry, Incantation, Deeds of Flesh, Nile, Him, Monstrosity and very a lot of others; he tours in the March '03 with Haemorrhage and Hypnos in Czech Rep., Slovakian Rep. and Germany!
Actually he plays with brutal act Blasphemer and in Modus Delicti. With Blasphemer he'll record the first full lenght released under Comatose music rec from U.S. and with Modus Delicti he'll record the first full lenght under Valley of Death rec. from U.K.