I was born in 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal, and I love music, play bass guitar and meet interesting people. I began playing bass guitar at age 16. I studied musical formation at Sintra Music Conservatory (Leal da Câmara Music School) in the school year 1990/91, and during the years of '93 and '94, I studied electric bass at the Jazz School of Hot Clube Portugal.
I've played with many artists and bands as a studio musician and as a performer too.
At the present, I play bass guitar at Disaffected (Progressive Death Metal), Sybila (Metal Avant-garde) and Target35 (Metal/HC/Screamo).
In the past, I played bass guitar at Papo Seco (Hard Core) and recorded a 4 track Demo Tape, produced by Luis Barros (Tarantula) at Rec'n'Roll Studios (Valadares, Porto) in March'92, and later that same year the band changed name to Grito Suburbano before we split up.
In January'93, I joined Disaffected and played with the band till '97, the year that we stop activity, and recorded the Disaffected's album "VAST" (Skyfall Records '95), produced by Marsten Bailey at Namouche Studios (Lisbon). A videoclip for the song "Vast - The Long Tomorrow" was recorded to promote the album "VAST", and was aired on MTV, VIVA, MCM and RTP (Portuguese Television). In 1996, the songs "Desire Me Not" and "The Praxis Of The Non Being" of the album "VAST" were included in a Split EP with SG's, released with the Spring edition of the portuguese magazine "Super Jovem", and we've also covered "Seasons in the Abyss" for the Slayer tribute album "Slatanic Slaughter II" (Black Sun Records '96). In 2007, me and guitar player Sérgio Paulo, decided to reunite the band after 10 years of silence...
Since '93 till '94, I played bass guitar at Exiled (Death Metal) and recorded the Exiled's album "Ascencion of Grace" (Slime Records '94), produced by Zé Motor at Tcha Tcha Tcha Studios (Algés, Lisbon).
In 1994, I played bass guitar with a jazz sextet featuring vocalist star PatrÃcia Fernandes, and we performed a show at Festa do Avante'94 (Seixal) in September of that same year.
During the Summer'97, I played bass guitar at Flood (Alternative Rock) as the support band of Santos & Pecadores Summer Tour'97.
In March'02, in the aftermath of our death metal project Skinblade (1999-2002), me and drummer O decided to form a new band called Sybila, based on Avant-garde style, and in December'04, we entered Studio G22 (Feijó, Almada) with producer Paulo Vieira (Firstborn) to record the promotional song "Cycles".
During the year of 2006, we at Target35, performed a lot of shows to promote our 1st PromoCD, who was recorded in May'06, produced by Makoto Yagyu (If Lucy Fell) at Black Sheep Studios (Mem Martins, Sintra), and the song "The Vendetta" from Target35's "PromoCD 2006" was included in the "Entulho Sonoro #1", a compilation CD of the February'07 edition of the portuguese underground magazine "Underworld".
The year of 2007 was very produtive for me with Disaffected, as we reunite the band after 10 years and performed two concerts (Caos Emergente Open Air Festival with bands like Benediction, Melechesh, Belphegor and Aborted in September, and Extreme Aggression Fest III with Akercocke in December).
In 2008, the song "Vast - The Long Tomorrow" of Disaffected's debut album "VAST" was included in the "Entulho Sonoro #5", a compilation CD of the April'08 edition of the portuguese underground magazine "Underworld".
Now, we at Disaffected, are rehearsing and writing material for the upcoming EP, tentatively due in the fall 2008.
Stay tunned & Rock On !! XXX
EVIL BASS PLAYER's DISCOGRAPHY
Check Out:
www.myspace.com/disaffectedmetal
www.myspace.com/sybilamusic
www.myspace.com/target35
Slatanic Slaughter II (A Tribute to Slayer)
Disaffected - Vast
