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David Folchitto

dr, *1978 IT
Musician of Rock

David Folchitto was born in Rome 23/05/1978. He starts playing drums in 1995 making experiences with a lot of bands during the school period. He goes on playing with local underground bands revealing a great use of double pedal, especially about the skill (his inspirations are drummers like Jörg Michael e Dave Lombardo). After some years dedicated to studies and concerts David recorded his first demo tape: it's 1998 and David played 4 tracks for an one man band called Satanic Terrorist, Aborym's guitar player black metal side-project. At the end of the same year David starts playing with Stormlord, and together with them he recorded 3 full-length and a mini-CD. With this band David plays a lot of concerts around Italy and Europe and he’s on the road 2 times for European tours near bands like Ancient (2), Graveworm and Mystic Circle. During the following years David continues his studies with Pierpaolo Ferroni (his teacher) and joins other bands too: Kaledon (3 full-length albums recorded with this band), Southern Cross, (official Stratovarius Italian cover band), Riot Act (Skid Row cover band), Concept (2 full-length albums), The Outbreak (Side project of members of Stormlord and Beholder). During this period he recorded the song "Glory Of Metal.it" (hymn of the website www.metal.it) and played live supporting Atrocity, Sacred Steel, Domine, Vision Divine, Destruction, Vicious Rumors, Tony Martin. He also plays with Prophilax, the greatest Roman band, in substitution of his teacher Pierpaolo Ferroni. He totally played more than 150 concerts and important metal festivals like "Summer Day In Hell" (in 2003 supporting Blind Guardian, Opeth, Type O Negative, Lacuna Coil, Annihilator (2), Prong, Extrema), "Un Dia Da Leones" (in 2002 supporting Soulfly and Arch Enemy) and "Gods Of Metal 2004" (supporting Alice Cooper, Testament (2), Twisted Sister, W.A.S.P., Stratovarius, Sodom, Symphony X, Judas Priest, Nevermore, Rage, Anathema).

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