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-THE ARTIST-The Italian guitar player and composer Stefania Ponzilacqua, a.k.a. Stefy, is a self tought guitarist.
She studied (and still studies) on books like A Modern Method For Guitar (by William G. Leavitt), Method For Heavy Metal Guitar ( by Giacomo Castellano), Scales For Modern Guitar ( by Filadelfo Castro) and Rock Discipline (by John Petrucci).
Stefy also studies patterns and exercises that finds on the Internet and so she ended up having tons of exercises! Her main occupation is to compose and rehear. When she has enough time, she can dedicate up to 6-8 hours per day to those exercises.
Her gear features an ESP Ltd M 100 and a Combo Marshall Valvestate 2000, but she can use pc speakers as cabinets too.
Occasionally she plays bass.-THE NAME OF THE BAND-The name ETERNAL TRAGEDY was inspired by the love Stefy has for Hamlet. The name of the band, infact, was chosen thanks to the famous " To be or not to be" scene in Zeffirelli’s Hamlet, performed by Mel Gibson.BIOGRAPHYThe Album- FOREVER
Stefy started to finish to write and record Eternal Tragedy first full length in the beginning of 2006, including ,in the tracks list, the re-recorded Outside Of Mercy and Eternal Tragedy featured in Voice Of Instinct demo. Later on, she contacted drummer Robert Falzano (Annihilator) who liked the album and recorded his drum tracks. In this project was also involved Curran Murphy (Annihilator) who tracked Robert’s drums at his studio. In September 2006 a technical problem with the recordings of the drum tracks occurred. This couldn’t make possible to use Robert’s tracks, that were replaced with a programmed drum.
Kelly Conlon accepted for the bass parts but as Robert’s drumming would no longer be on the abum, he renounced.
FOREVER is the title of the album and below is the tracks list.
Tracks List:Prisoners-
Crime Of The Soul-
Outside Of Mercy-
Forever-
Life Expression-
Eternal Tragedy-
Like A Stone-
Dictator--VOICE OF INSTINCT - Demo-Eternal Tragedy, released their second demo entitled Voice Of Instinct in 2004-2005. This demo features two songs - "Eternal Tragedy" and "Outside of Mercy". The guitarist, Stefy, recorded all the guitars, vocal and bass tracks thanks to a sequenced metronome. In search of a stable line-up, she contacted drummer Iwan Hendrikx from Holland. Once their agreement was ready, Stefy went by bus to Holland with her project files. Within 10 days, the two players finished Iwan’s drum tracks. At that point Iwan was pleased with the finished recording and joined the band as official member. Soon both Stefy and Iwan, went by their own and divided their path. Stefy decided that after Voice Of Instinct, she was going to release a full length album.- THE FIRST DEMO-Eternal Tragedy released their first demo, entitled DEMO, in 2001/2002. This demo features two songs - "Dreamworld" and "Murder of Souls" that are a kind of musical hybrid among death, trash, progressive and power metal with melodic vocal lines. Stefy had a provisional line up at that time that was featuring Stefy on guitars, her sister Valentina Ponzilacqua on the bass, Alex Patelli on drums and Andrea M. on vocals. The recordings were very troubled in fact Andrea didn’t sing on Dreamworld, that was sang by Stefy, because couldn’t perform it in the same way he performed Murder of Souls. This fact and other musical incomprehension, caused an immediate brake up of the line up. Stefy decided to turn all the melodic vocals that she would have written, into growling vocals, creating what is today Eternal Tragedy.- The Beginning-The Italian band started under the name of Metal ’til Death. The line up was featuring only Stefy on guitars and Valentina Ponzilacqua on bass. The music played at this time was a kind of epic metal, with a touch of thrash. Metal ’til Death never recorded anything.
