IRREVERENCE (preparing the new release!)

Irreverence was born in 1995 from an idea of Ricky Paioro, which, after a few little unlucky projects, found in Davide Firinu, beginner drummer at that time, the right person to start this adventure. Before the first serious recording session, the line up changed a lot of times, but in 1997 the band was permanently formed: Ricky at guitar & vocals, Davide at drums, Giuliano Strozzi at bass guitar and Luca Petrazzuolo at lead guitar. After a few the first work of the band called “Demo ‘98” was released, followed the year after by “Demo ‘99”. In 2000 they started the collaboration with Stonehenge Records, which undertook to produce the first Irreverence’s CD. For this CD all the songs of the first two demos were re-arranged and recorded again. The result was “Totally negative thoughts”. Unfortunately it was not well-supported cause of a lack of live shows and promotion. So Irreverence faced 2001 with a CD with good potentialities that were not oppurtunetely exploited. And, as if it wasn't enough, Giuliano decided to leave the band, followed in a few by Luca. Fortunately Ricky and Davide resisted hard and continued, beginning the search of other components for to complete the line-up. At the end of that year they met Stefano Bertolotti who entered as lead guitarist. After a couple of months the line-up was completed by a new bass player, Mauro Passiatore. The band were soon in the same wavelenght and the songwriting saw the contribution of all, while before Ricky wrote almost the totality of the material. In 2002 the guys decided to auto-produce a mini-CD with Harris Johns in Spiderhouse Studios in Berlin. The son of these devasting (in all senses) recording sessions is “Target: Hate” which, after a few of slowings down, saw the light in February 2003. Live shows with bands as Node, Extrema, Natron, L’Ordadunto and Pandemia finally began to expand out of Lombardia (Sun Valley Festival (Tn), Brunch (AP), Southern Live Festival (Ta), Le Cave (IS), Slovenly (Na)) and it was properly supported by Necrotorture Agency. But the good period of the band has been interrupted in October. Stefano leave Irreverence cause of a different approach to the project between him and the others. After a moment of indecision on the possibility to remain a three-men band, Luca Colombo, old friend of them, joined the band. The entry of Luca Colombo, allows to the band to continue the intense live activity to support "Target: Hate"promotion and that brings the band to perform itself in over 40 dates through Italy, often accompanying international bands as Tankard and Carnal Forge and taking part to some important metal events (Titans Of Thrash 2004, Metal Camp 2005). In August 2005, Irreverence entered the studio again to record the third studio work “War Was Won”. They come back again at Spiderhouse Studios with Harris Johns. The result is a new full lenght in thrash/death style, a perfect mixture between the previouses band works. In November 2005 Irreverence signed a new record deal with ON DEAD SOUND RECORDS company. The press has welcomed the new release with excellent critiques and comments. In March 2006 starts a brand new tour to support “War Was Won” in Italy, that touched the country from north to south. In summer season 2006 the band has been busy in some international metal meeting, before to leave for the some european gigs. After the broke up with ON DEAD SOUND RECORDS they are searching for a new record company and they are already working to the successor of “War Was Won”. They will probably enter the studio again in Spring/Summer 2007.
Official Website: http://www.irreverence.it