We met some years ago at the supermarket. Everyone of us wanted to buy the only bunch of bananas left so we started a very rough fight, involving all the people around and crashing everything in the nearby. Later, in the police station's waiting room, we could know ourselves a little better, discovering our common interest in rock music. We became good friends and in 2002 we set up the band. Our first, self-titled record came out on 2004 and since then we are playing a lot of gigs in Italy and Europe. Then we took part in the 3-way split CD "A Bullet Sounds The Same (In Every Language)" with OvO and Psychofagist and as of now here it is our second full-length "Pompa Magna".

"Sci-Fi" is about our love for the b-movies that ruined our childhood, then stands for the galactic sound of our cheap vintage synthesizers and the main themes of our lyrics. "Grind" because we don't love compromises and this metal subgenre is simply the last rampart of analog extreme music. Finally, we must assume that there's no life without Rock and Roll.

The band has just released your new album “Pompa Magna”, how do you describe the sound and what has been the reaction so far to the record?

All the music we ever produced was intended to be extreme metal stuff dressed with a lot of our non-metal influences, like R'n'R, post-hardcore, progressive, 80's electro-shit. From this point of view, Pompa Magna is not so different from our past releases. It's odd, fast and fresh. We also love its bright sound and its funny atmosphere. We're very happy and proud that a lot of people are appreciating the original features of our music.

Where and over what period was the album written and recorded? How did the band enjoy your time in the studio?

Our guitarist and our former keyboard player are actually running the studio and we spend a lot of our time right there, it's something like a second home so the recording sessions were very comfortable to us. We worked on the record something like five or six days every month for a couple of years, just when we wanted to do it.

Ahead of the album release the band signed with Italian label Subsound Records. How did this deal come about and what made Subsound the right label for you?

Davide from Subsound Records just called us and set up a meeting in his mansion. When we got there, he revealed us he had kidnapped our sisters. So we were forced to sign up with his label in order to set them free. We still think it was the right choice.

What plans have the band to tour in support of “Pompa Magna”? Is touring something the band enjoys or is it a necessary evil to promote records?

An European tour is planned on next may. We fucking love the touring life, it's our perfect excuse for being five alcohol and drug addicted dumb-asses.

The band lists a whole raft of bands and artists as influences ranging from The Dillinger Escape Plan to Johnny Cash to David Lynch. Which members bring which influences to the table and how on earth do you cram them all into your music?

Gio (vx) grew up with country music and early 90s post-hardcore and noise acts like Unsane and Melvins. Demian (drums) seriously damaged his brain mixing punk rock and black metal. Jimmy (keys) is totally devoted to prog. Dan and V Fisik (bs and gtr) are a couple of outcast weirdos who love to listen to metal, mathcore, trip-hop, indie rock and whatever. And AC/DC.

The metal scene in Italy is pretty developed and alive, but in most cases they're just copies of copies of copies. Being metal "borderilners", we feel more close to odd extreme music acts like Zu, Dispositivo Per Il Lancio Obliquo di Una Sferetta, Mithra, A Flower Kollapsed.

No such plans so far, but our debut has been re-printed something like three years ago right after it was sold out. About Pompa Magna compared to our old stuff, we wrote it four years and hundreds of gigs later, being more aware about the band's identity and sound.

Building on your success, which you have enjoyed domestically within Italy how difficult has it been to widen the bands exposure to the European and World audience?

The deal with the Subsound guys gave us our first chance of an Europe-wide promotion (that's why we're answering to interviews like this...). If we have a fan base in Europe (mainly Germany, Holland and Belgium), it's just because we played a lot.