Antonio Romano (born August 6, 1962) is an Argentine

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guitarist. He has worked in Cerbero,

Hermética Hermética was an Argentine thrash metal band from San Martín, Buenos Aires. It was formed by bassist Ricardo Iorio in 1987 after his previous band, V8, disbanded. Hermética was signed to the independent record label Radio Trípoli Discos ...

Malón ''Malón'' (from the Mapudungun ''maleu,'' to inflict damage to the enemy) is the name given to plunder raids carried out by Mapuche warriors, who rode horses into Spanish, Chilean and Argentine territories from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a ...

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and Razones Concientes.

Biography

Born in Caseros, Buenos Aires, son of Italian immigrants, Romano became a heavy metal musician after hearing an LP of

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. He began his work in the 1980s, in a

black metal Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emp ...

band named "Cerbero". The band did not record any LP. He was considered a possible guitarist for V8 when

Osvaldo Civile Osvaldo Daniel Civile (21 October 1958 – 28 April 1999) was an Argentine heavy metal guitarist. He was the guitarist for the bands V8 and Horcas. Biography Civile was born in Caseros, Buenos Aires, and began his music career in the band ...

left that band, but he was not selected. Still, when V8's bassist

Ricardo Iorio Ricardo Iorio (born 25 June 1962) is an Argentine heavy metal singer and bassist who participated in various of the most important metal bands of the nation. He was one of the founders of V8 (1979–1987) and later founded the successful band ...

broke up the band in 1989, he hired Romano for his new band,

, along with singer Claudio O'Connor and drummer Fabián Spataro. Romano composed the music of several songs of the new band. Hermética recorded three studio albums, and received a golden record for the sales of ''

Ácido Argentino ''Ácido Argentino'' is the second studio album by Argentine thrash metal band Hermética, released in 1991 by Trípoli Discos. Details This is the first album featuring drummer Claudio Strunz. Same as the previous release, ''Intérpretes'', ''Á ...

'' and '' Víctimas del Vaciamiento''. Hermética broke up in 1994, in controversial circumstances. Iorio created a new band, Almafuerte, with new musicians. Romano stayed with the other members of the band, O'Connor and

Claudio Strunz Claudio Strunz (born November 11, 1966) is an Argentine thrash metal drummer. He has worked in Heinkel, Hermética, Malón (band), Malón and Simbiosis. Biography Claudio Strunz, born in La Tablada, began his career in Heinkel, a band that would ...

(a new drummer that joined the band in 1991), and created a new band,

, with a similar music style. The bassist of this new band was Carlos Kuadrado, the former bassist of Cerbero. Malón recorded two studio albums. Romano commented that he considered Iorio to be better than Kuadrado writing lyrics, but praised instead Kuadrado as a bass player. Claudio O'Connor left Malón in 1998, to begin a solo career, and the band broke up. Romano stayed with Kuadrado and called Willy Caballero, the third member of Cerbero. Still, the new band did not use the old name, and was named "Visceral" instead. It would not be a black metal band, as in the 1980s, but a thrash metal band as the recent ones of Romano. The band recorded only one of the old songs of Cerbero, "Misa Negra" ( es, Black mass). Malón was reunited in 2001, without Claudio O'Connor, who was replaced by Eduardo Ezcurra. Strunz left this new incarnation of Malón shortly afterwards, and Romano stayed in it, renamed as "Razones concientes". Antonio Romano celebrated his 25 years in music in 2011 with a music festival; he clarified that he counted the years since Cerbero was an established band with regular plays. Malón was reunited in 2011, this time with all the initial members.

Discography

With

– 1989 *

Intérpretes ''Intérpretes'' is an EP released in 1990 by heavy metal band Hermética. It is an album of covers, including songs from artists like Motörhead, V8 and Manal, among others. Production ''Intérpretes'' is the second work produced by Hermética, ...

– 1990 *

– 1991 * En Vivo 1993 Argentina – 1993 (live) * Víctimas del Vaciamiento – 1994 * Lo Último – 1995 * En Concierto I&II – 1996 With

* Espíritu Combativo – 1995 * Justicia o Resistencia – 1996 * Resistencia Viva – 1997 * Malón (EP) – 2002 * El regreso más esperado (DVD) – 2012 With Visceral * Visceral – 1999 * Arrancados Del Sistema – 2000 With Razones Concientes * Razones concientes (Demo) – 2003 * Industria Argentina – 2005 * Dejando Huella – 2007 * Razones concientes (Demo) – 2008 Solo * 25 Años – 2011 (live) (With invited guests: Walter Meza, Pato Strunz, Larry Zavala, Willy Caballero, Guillermo Romero, Carlos Cabral, Christian Bertoncelli, Mario Ian, Juan Soto, Tito Garcia: also Tony Scotto was present) * 30 Años (2016) * Uno (2017)

References

Bibliography

External links

Malón official site

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Romano, Antonio Argentine heavy metal guitarists Lead guitarists People from Tres de Febrero Partido 1962 births Living people