The mystical book of TREGOR MALPHAS RUSSO's saga have been open in the winter of 1995, by the will of his artistic soul, when he started to compose his first songs.
Compositor, guitar virtuoso, arranger, multi-instrumentalist ( classical and acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums and percussions), singer, performer, lyricist, theater actor and radio speaker.In the autumn of 1996, he recorded his first demo called “Divina Morteâ€, with his first solo project SORTILEGIUM, playing all the instruments, melting traditional doom death metal, influenced by Candlemass and the brutal death metal scene in typical Floridian style, and published in two hundred copies for fanzine, magazines, radio stations and labels only.
In the Spring 1997, another solo project takes shape; NOEREM, where power and black metal melt their selves and of which you can find two tracks into the first compilation “ Mediterranean Scena Scunsacrata Act One “.
At the end of 1997, MALIGNANCY is born; this third solo project represents an extreme evolution of SORTILEGIUM; playing six tracks (one of this songs is instrumental acoustic) of brutal gore death metal, in a demo cd called “Towards the Sunsetâ€, edited in fifty hundred sold out copies, and well reviwed positively on magazines, fanzines and both Italian and foreigner.
In the meanwhile Tregor keeps on trying out and composing all music and lyrics and for the first time, he recruits other players to record a new promo cd, always under the monicker of SORTILEGIUM, called “Mcmxcix†(1999), at Riff Raff Studio in Marsala ( Sicily).
This promo cd marks a turning point with songs melting symphonic, new age, gothic, progressive, groove, doom and death metal, trying to give new lymph to extreme metal scene…
The first split cd from SORTILEGIUM was released on Christmas 2001 by Coffin Productions. Recorded at Riff Raff Studio in Marsala ( Sicily), it's entitled "Requiem Aeternam" and the other band featured is a death/thrash metal mid tempos outfit called INNER HELL, who Tregor himself joined as a multi-instrumentalist, after the other musicians leaved the band. The "Requiem Aeternam" Opera is a litanic concept album, divided in 5 chapters and it shows the world the new unique musical innovation of Tregor. Inspired by the concept of Angels and Tregor's obscure and mournful vision, exalting the darken majesty of SORTILEGIUM.
The songs blend together classical music, avantgarde, dark wave, progressive, power, gothic, epic, symphonic doom death metal, Gregorian choirs and Soprano singing, the result enriched by Tregor's lead guitar playing all technical virtuosism, giving birth to Angelic Horror Metal Opera.
The Album has been written, composed, created and played by Tregor in it’s entirety. In addition to INNER HELL, Tregor also plays guitars and bass in MENSCHENFEIND, a devastating black metal band.
The debut album, “Smell like posers…†recorded in the Evil Paint Studio in February and is to be released by Coffin Productions in July 2002. He is also the virtuoso guitarist, bassist and composer of ERIAMINELL.
Back in the All Studios in Florence, Tregor recorded in two days, all of his parts of leads and rhythms guitars, synths and bass guitar, and he produced with the band, their first album.
The Nocturnal Music Records showed intrest and in the summer of 2003 the debut album “Enraged“ came out! The record proposing a furious and hypertechnical brutal, death metal !!! The reaction of both fans and media are positively around the World. After some live appearances at Metal Festivals and other concerts in Italy, with his soloist band Sortilegium.
In the summer of 2004, Tregor bring his new musical creature to the light, GATES OF EDEN, of which it is the Factotum of it.
In the Winter of 2005 Tregor, after continuous studies and searches beyond the new one and the unexplored one, they will contribute to his artistic evolution that will bring him toward his extraordinary musical revolution, composing the romantical lyrics and 9 innovative songs and recorded the first demo cd of GATES OF EDEN.
Tregor's creation is a perfect interpretation of different musical styles with an Innovative, Original, Unique and Emotional kind of music.
The pathos that it will never miss to overwhelm!!!
In a professional studio recording to Palermo, between October and November 2006, he has recorded the first cd of GATES OF EDEN (third in his career) exceptionally playing all the instruments; ( guitars, bass, drums, percussions, tubular bells and darbuka), with the female singer Rossellà h Di Gregorio and Etienne to the sitar and koto.
In the 2007 Tregor recruits the drummer Ryan Spataro and a session bassist and with the first line up of the band they play live apparences in some place in Sicily.
At the end of January 2008 goes out the first cd single called " GATES OF EDEN " will serve as ep to the first full lenght album of GATES OF EDEN, will go out very soon.....
The sound of GATES OF EDEN proposed by Tregor Malphas Russo amalgamate various musical styles, spacing from traditional arabic music, metal, latin, jazz, bossanova and rock.
GATES OF EDEN is just the beginning...
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