Marco Visconti

Marco Visconti on stage with XP8 at Slimelight (London, UK, 07.07.07)

Marco Visconti (born June 4, 1978) is a musician, known for his work with the Italian band XP8.

Biography

Visconti was born in Rome, Italy. Moved to Bologna, Italy in 2006, he is also a DJ focused on Industrial Dance music, and the Industrial scene in general. He formed XP8 in 2001 with Paul Toohill and Marko Resurreccion. Visconti is contributing to the band with synth production, arrangements, and promotion.

In 2006, he joined two other acts, Unter Null and Grendel, as member of the live lineup of each band. The collaboration with Unter Null did not last long, as he left the band after 6 months on October 28 after a concert held during the Swedish Tinitus Festival: the split was on friendly terms. Visconti's collaboration with Grendel ended in 2009 to allow him to concentrate once again more on XP8.^[1]

In early 2007, he was then recruited by VNV Nation as keyboard player for their Judgement world tour.^{[citation needed]} At the end of the tour he returned to Rome, where he currently resides.

In 2008 he joined the Faderhead live band, and provided additional production to the song "Another Dead Boy" on Faderhead's third studio album "FH3", and then to the songs "Baby Firefly" and "Beautiful Freak" on the follow-up, "Black Friday". Visconti received countless nicknames since he joined Faderhead, the most well-known being "The Lord" (or "The Bad Bad Lord", "Lordy" or "The Meatlord Mogumbe Visconti").^[2]

Marco's other interests include Thelema, Gnosticism, Voodoo and chaos magick, and since the late 90s he's been very active in the Italian neo-pagan scene, translating various texts and books in his own language and collaborating to the Italian Pagan Pride Day project. Italian's science-fiction and counter-culture author Francesco Dimitri, also a well-known neo-pagan, was inspired by Visconti's online persona to create Dagon, a signature characted featured in Dimitri's novels. ^[3]

Discography

With XP8

Main article: XP8#Discography

With Grendel

• Harsh Generation (2007)

With Faderhead

• FH3 (2008)
• Black Friday (2010)

References

1. ^ Marco Visconti's MySpace Blog
2. ^ Diaries Of A Noisebastard - The official Faderhead Blog
3. ^ LiBlog - Chiacchierando Con Francesco Dimitri

External links

• Marco Visconti on Facebook
• Marco Visconti on Myspace
• Marco Visconti on Twitter

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Name	Visconti, Marco
Alternative names	Azrael
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Date of birth	June 4, 1978
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