Steve Angarthal

..The eclectic guitar player of the Italian metal band Fire Trails leaves no room to doubts: guitar is his natural extension and the intense flow of sounds and emotions springing in every concert and recorded track really stand out! With this band, founded in 2000 together with the legendary Rock Italian singer Pino Scotto, he stormed several audiences such as those present at most important metal festivals like Gods of Metal, Iron Fest and Agglutination. Steve Angarthal’s strong personality already struck in Fire Trails debut cd “Vanadium Tribute” with his interpretation of old classical hits of Vanadium; sometimes completely re-arranging them and other times enriching them with new boosts and fresh sonorities. However, it’s the following release of 2005 named “Third moon” that enlights his guitar and composing mastery being Steve himself at the same time composer, arranger and guitar player of the entire work.Stylistically he relies on sacred rock monster’s tradition such as R. Blackmore, J. Hendrix, J. Page and more recent Y. Malmsteen, S. Vai and J. Satriani; and it’s in his personal synthesis that is possible to hear influences ranging from blues, rock to metal blended together in an awesome mix.. Angarthal’s musical knowledge is also widened by his past disparate studies. He studies functional harmony and composition for big band and orchestra with maestro Filippo Daccò; classical guitar, in the beginning of his musical path with maestro Marco Biassoni and then as self taught; jazz rock guitar is deepened in London with Shaun Baxter; composition and arrangement for classical orchestra that, with musical cooperation of Violinist Mauro Catalano, will lead to give life to “Cordis ensemble” featuring string orchestra and electric guitar as soloist instrument: finally Angarthal is also fond of world-wide musical traditions in the like of Flamenco, Indian and arabian or eastern European music.Since 2000 he’s endorsing Molinelli guitars, Milan based guitar maker for whom Angarthal showcases in most relevant Italian musical fairs such as Second Hand Guitars e Guitar Day. Sound and its qualities, both in acoustical and electrical terms, is also a very important aspect of Angarthal musicianship and tech skills: this is supported firstly by his presence as a teacher in Italian centre of the international institution SAE (school of audio engineering), and secondly by long years spent in recording studios and live shows both as audio engineer and programmer. Furthermore Angarthal has devoted himself since the beginning of the new Millenium to guitar teaching and starting with private guitar lesson he entered teaching stuff of different music school like Accademia di musica Sondriese, Il borgo della musica and Rock Tv School.Year 2007 shows lots of artistic ferment as, coming to an end with the extended tour supporting Third moon work, it begins the writing and pre production of Fire Trails new release awaited for 2008, and, at the same time, it sees Angarthal busy with recording guitar solos for other projects like funk rock bass player Marco Castelli solo project “XXIX Anima” and Italian AOR band “Myland” headed by drummer Paolo Morbini. Last and not least Steve Angarthal is also in the final stages of production of his first solo project “ Elektro motion” which will show all the different nuances of our tireless musician always engaged to outline new paths for his on fire guitar! www.myspaceeditor.it