Italian Catholic Heavy Metal Group METATRONE Defying Stereotypes

July 24, 2008

Richard Jinman of The Sydney Morning Herald reports: An hour before his first Sydney show, Davide Bruno, the rather fierce-looking leader of the Italian heavy-metal group METATRONE, was holed up in his dressing room and refusing to speak.

"I'm sorry," said the band's manager. "Davide has not yet finished his prayers. He will talk to you in five minutes."

METATRONE, it should be pointed out, are a Catholic heavy-metal group. In Sydney to perform at World Youth Day, they have turned an eardrum-shredding genre often associated with Satanism, bat-chewing and general debauchery into … well, what exactly?

"For us it's just music: rhythms, energy, melodies, chords, vocals," said Bruno, who sports a goatee and shares Ozzy Osbourne's dress sense — black shirt, crucifix — but not his lifestyle.

Bruno admits to enjoying the occasional glass of wine, but talk of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll elicits hearty laughter.

"We don't have those stereotypes," he said.

Read the entire article from The Sydney Morning Herald.

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