Il Teatro degli Orrori

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Il Teatro degli Orrori
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Background information
Origin Venice
Genres Noise rock
Alternative rock
Years active2005–2020
2025

Il Teatro degli Orrori is an Italian noise rock band from Venice.

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The band's name (Theater of Horrors) is inspired by the Theatre of Cruelty of Antonin Artaud.

Biography

The group formed in the winter of 2005. The line-up consisted of Pierpaolo Capovilla (frontman of One Dimensional Man), Francesco Valente (One Dimensional Man) and Jonathan Mirai (voice and guitar of Super Elastic Bubble Plastic). They were later joined by Giulio Favero (formerly One Dimensional Man), thus completing the line-up. On 6 April 2007 their first album, Dell'impero delle tenebre , was released. On 20 June 2008, the band attended the Heineken Jammin' Festival supporting Linea 77. [1]

On 25 March 2009, Il Teatro degli Orrori featured on the compilation album Il paese è reale, an idea of Manuel Agnelli of Afterhours following the group's participation at the Sanremo Music Festival 2009, to support and promote indie rock from the Italian underground scene. Their song, "Refusenik", was inspired by the events of Israeli conscientious objectors who refuse to take up arms in protest against the occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Two years after the release of Dell'impero delle tenebre, in 2009 the band released the album A sangue freddo [2] for La Tempesta Records. The title song of the album is dedicated to Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian poet who was killed in 1995. The album was well received by critics and described as "less crude and immediate" than the previous work. [3] In early 2010, Favero left the band, while multi-instrumentalist Nicola Manzan (guitar, violin, synth) and Tommaso Mantelli on bass both joined. [4]

In June the band took the stage at the MTV Day 2010. In March 2011, on his Facebook page, Capovilla announced the departure of drummer Valente and the sacking of guitarist Manzan and bassist Mantelli. No info is given about replacements, except for the return to bass by Favero. 22 July 2011 Favero announced on Facebook that the band was to start the recording of their third album with their original line-up. On 25 November 2011 the band announced the release of Il mondo nuovo scheduled for 31 January 2012. The album consists of 16 tracks, for a total duration of almost 70 minutes; [5] In March 2012, the group went on tour to promote the album.

Band members

Former members

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

EPs

References

  1. "Il Teatro degli Orrori si aggiungono alla lineup di venerdì 20 luglio". Archived from the original on 11 January 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  2. album per il Teatro degli Orrori|opera=www.rockit.it
  3. "Recensione". Rockit. Archived from the original on 1 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  4. titolo=Band's Myspace Archived 7 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Il Mondo Nuovo", il nuovo disco del Teatro Degli Orrori | Toylet Mag Archived 14 September 2012 at archive.today