Tarchon Fist Line-up

Luciano "Lucio" Tattini Guitar	Luigi "J.J. Sange" Sangermano Vocals	Marco "Wallace" Pazzini aka "lo Spezz" Bass
Andrea "Animal" Bernabeo Drums	Federico "Heavy Rico" Mengoli Guitar

Biography

TARCHON FIST music project took form during summer 2006 and unites different musicians of Bologna "metal world": LVCIO (Luciano Tattini, songwriter, guitarist and founder of legendary metal band RAIN since 1980); JAKK (Jacopo Ghisolfi, author, designer); "J.J." Sange (Luigi Sangermano singer and songwriter, well known as OLD FLAME frontman, Thin Lizzy Tribute Band, as well as part of many blues/rock/hard rock/metal projects); "lo Spezz" aka WALLACE (Marco Pazzini, bassist and founder of Basic Dreams, an important band from Bologna metal scene); ANIMAL (Andrea Bernabeo, drummer, student at the Music Academy under many important name of italian music scene and very active as seesion-man in many different project); JUNIOR (Lucio Martelli, one of the best lead guitar in Bologna, working as a permanent member in different studios as a recording session man for different kind of music and partecipating in a metal project with members of Labyrinth).
The band offers an adrenaline high-level show with originals and some covers of Judas Priest, Saxon, AC/DC...
"Tarchon Fist" is the tentative title for the forthcoming debut album, forged by musicians coming from several and various music experience but united by the common spirit and love for playing music. That kind of music that burns. Like a fire.
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Who the hell is Tarchon?

A brief history lesson
Tarcon or Tarconte (Tarchon the english translation) is an Etruscan name.
In their early days, the Etruscans dwelt in the lands of Tuscany and nothern Lazio; greek and latin historical sources speak of an Etruscan civilization toward the Po valley that brought to the foundation of a League of Twelve Towns. One of those town, centuries ahead, would become Bologna.
According to the historical documentation, Tarchon was the founder of those 12 towns, at the beginning of the Iron Age (IX cen. b.C.).
At about the half ov the VI century, Etruscans loose their dominion above the Tyrrhenian Sea, due to the Greek and Carthaginian expansion. This brings a completely new setting of the political and economical structure of the Etruscan kingdom; commerce with the central Europe and Greece grows, new towns born, old settlements are re-founded, as happens to Felsina, today known as Bologna, that immediately becomes the fulcrum of this new system.
Tarchon appears also in ancient literature: in the Aeneid, Tarchon is a king, master of the Etruscan League, a warrior and a priest, and according to some Greek authors, he is kin to Hercules.
And there is a divine aspect of the name Tarchon.
Latin authors agree to say that Etruscan were very religious, very skilled in the art of divination. They had a set of tight rules that managed the relations between men and gods (the "Etruscan Discipline"). We also know that they believed teir religion was revealed by some superior beings, such as Tagete, the child, and Vegoe, the nymph.
Among the early Etruscan, gods have no definite aspect, maybe we can suppose there was an single divine entity, who used to appear in different ways. But between VIII and VI century b.C. the Etruscan religion changes: new gods are importedrom Greece, and the older ones take a human and definitive form, such as in the Classical Olympus.
The older gods of the Etruscan represented the basic forces of nature, destroyers and creators at the same time: Tarchon was the god of rain, bringing life to the land but also raging in the storm.

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