Frank Caruso

Born in Milan in 1968, Frank started to play the guitar and the piano at 8, and started to study immediately classical music.
At 12 years old he published the first album, 45 LP for a melodic rock band called MACID.
At 17 years Frank create the FIREHOUSE , band that was born with some friends at school - it will arrive to the publication of two album and one of them “LABYRINTH” was distributed in all Europe.

Appreciated guitarist from the national critic, in the ‘80 and in the first years of the 90, he collaborates with several artists of the Italian scene and begins its activity of session-man in various studies of recording, and he will collaborate with Franco Battiato and others important productions of the Italian scene.
In 1992, he finished the studies of Sacred Music, opens a study of recording where he begins to realize soundtracks and music for television, collaborating with the greatest Italians television groups and radio.
In 1994 he started a collaboration with Mediaset group for which he realized many TV spot and some soundtracks. Tired to produce music for other artists and the activity of session-man, in 96 Frank decides to dedicate himself to a new project and in the' 97, from the ashes of FIREHOUSE, the ARACHNES were born.
In 1998 ARACHNES published “THE GODDESS TEMPLE” for Lucretia Records, the band attracted the attention of international critic and ARACHNES enter in the international metal scene, appearing in compilation with STRATOVARIOUS and ANGRA.
In 2000 the first collaboration with the label Underground Symphony and ARACHNES publish “METAMORPHOSIS”, that signs the definitive change of style that becames more Prog-Power-Symphonic.
In the 2001/2003 ARACHNES sign with Scarlet Records and in the next three years they start to work very hard and they published:

- 2001 "PARALLEL WORLDS" , published and distributed in all Europe and South America.

- 2002 "APOCALYPSE" , that it will open the Japanese market.

- 2003 "PRIMARY FEAR" , that it confirms the presence of the band in the European and Japanese market.

In the main time Frank produce music for television; in 2005 ARACHNES finishes to record “IN PRAISE OF SCIENCE” and not for their choice the album was published in 2006.

In 2006, after months of several negotiations with italian and foreign labels, Frank decides to repeat the collaboration with Underground Symphony, already experimented in 2000, this time for the production of his solo album “Kaleidoscope ”, an album that Frank said:

‘It's the expression of the pure guitar entertainment, without a commercial business and chosen dictated from the tendencies of market, a joyful following of notes only for the pure taste of music”.
This “properly artistic” position has carried to a new contact with the label and to a distribution choices addressed to new shapes of commercialization like Internet. also from the big important guitarist site GUITAR 9.

In 2007 Frank started with the new GOTHIC/MEDIOEVAL project called DARKLIGHT, with female voice, and published the first album of the new band LIGHT FROM THE DARK for the top label Fuel records and distributed in all the world for Self Distribution and in digital distribution by i-Tunes.
In 2008 Frank starts a new collaboration with the important magazine "Computers & Music Studio Project": he becomes the reference for the magazine for which he reviews digital guitar recordings, digital guitar hardwares, performing testing and he records for the magazine audio samples.
Also in 2008 the new project STRINGS 24 with other guitar friends Sebo Xotta (Four Tyles / Utez) and Gianluca Ferro (Time Machine / Heart of sun) which begins with the recording of a future project as well as being present in important live performance (Special guest of Andy Timmons) and clinics.
Meanwhile Frank is recording the new ARACHNES album...

Now he work.....

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Frank Caruso & Sebo
with the axeman Steve Lukather (Toto)!