Reflections

the band started off in october 2000 when Mirko Montalbano (drums),Bruno Marzano (voice) and Ciccio Pizzimenti (bass) met and started looking for musicians for a new musical project.With negative experiences in former bands,they completed the line-up with Giovanni D’Arrigo and,later,Roberto Bondì on guitars.Having found a name,”Reflections”,the only thing missing was to find a genre on which everyone agreed on,in fact the sicilian combo had numerous,yet various experiences on their backs:from hardcore (Bruno,Ciccio), to glam rock (Giovanni,Roberto), to black and death metal (Mirko).Eventually they all decided to mix everything up and give birth to an “in your face” type of crossover whose influences go from New York hardcore (Agnostic front,Biohazard) to american nu-school (Earth crisis, Snapcase) and not disliking a small dose of good old funk (Infectuous grooves ). The result is a four track promo ,recorded at the “temple of Noise”studios in Rome in august 2001,which receives outstanding reviews and attracts numerous labels willing to sign the band.All this was followed by an intense live period,the ideal situation for the band,whose powerful and adrenalinic shows,manage to unite very different types of audience (from the most extreme metal heads ,to hardcorers) ,obtaining flattening response (the band arrived third on 100 participants from all Sicily for the “Campus 2001 contest” , organized by the cultural association “Palermo in musica”). Still memorable for the band are moments like the show on April 2002 for which 700 people turned up and on July of the same year when the band opened an evening for the historical band D.O.A and where the new guitarist Giuseppe Musso,was intoduced to take Giovanni D’Arrigo’s place. In August 2002 the band went to Rome for the recording of their first full-length album-always at “Temple of noise” studios- which impressed producer Christian Ice and lead him to propose a co-production contract. The final product should have seen the light in december 2002, but was delayed to find a proper distribution for the cd. In the meantime the band played a show with Raw power and split with Ciccio,Giuseppe and Roberto,no more involved in the band’s musical decisions.Subsequently Davide Scalzo came in on bass,while on guitar Alessandro “TheShasta” Vecchietti and later in 2007 Davide corda proved to be spot on for the job.So with the line up finally complete, the band released in april 2006 their debut album “Free violence”,which was followed by the video of "happiness is sad". In july 2006 reflections organised an exeptional record release show,bringing for the first time to a sicilian audience one of the most representative bands for reflections' sound: Agnostic Front,yet another memorable moment...! So despite hardship with band members and the lack of a real musical culture and musical scene in Palermo Reflections have proven to be one of the most willing and ambitious acts of southern Italy.