Zeroin

Infobox musical artist
Name = Zeroin
Background = group_or_band
Years_active = 2001 - present
Origin = Italy
Genre = Electro rock
Label = Subsound Records
URL = http://www.zeroinsane.com/

Zeroin is an Italian electro-rock band. They merge different elements of metal, rock, and electronic music on a dark background.

Biography

Found in 2000, Zeroin started its activity as an experimental project, aiming to find an original way to make electronic music and alternative rock merge together on a dark background. The very first sound of the band was deeply linked to the electronic genre. Still including a wide use of drum machines and samplers that sound progressively develop into something different, with the introduction of unconventional guitars and vocals. The band soon created its own small but well-equipped home-studio called Merrick’s Lab and was able to record the first four-tracks self-produced demo by December 2002 (Zeroin, Self-Produced, 2002).

During 2003 and 2004 Zeroin worked hard into the studio trying to find more than one new direction through which develop its own music, playing the first important gigs outside of the region, supporting other bands or as headliner. It was the most experimenting period, and every single new song was deeply studied and rearranged more than once: the result has been Sophisticated, self-produced promotional CD, which by the end of 2004 received very positive comments by the most important national webzines, helping the band to start some fundamental collaborations and opening the shows of bands like GF93 and Mellowtoy. The project enjoyed the contribution of other absolutely skilful artists of the local scene: it’s in this period that Bonny became the band’s official artwork creator.

After a long period of style research, during which every side of its own musical personality has been tested, by 2005 project Zeroin was definitely matured: an interesting amount of new material was created in few months. After listening to some demo samples Carlo Bellotti, GF93’s singer and main figure of Alkemist Fanatix Agency, enthusiastically joined the project as manager and promoter. In the meantime Zeroin toured the Italian Peninsula in support of artists like Gary Numan, Susan Acid and Addiction Crew. Thanks to Carlo Bellotti the band started an important collaboration with Subsound Studio at the end of 2006, which culminated in Zeroin’s signing with Subsound Records in April 2007. The debut LP, called “The Death Of A Man Called Icarus” has been mastered by Jesse Baccus at West West Side Studio (New York) in May and hit the European stores in September 2007 through Plastic Head Distribution. Thanks to Subsound Records’ new partners the album will be also distributed in the U.S. (Robotic Empire Records) and Japan (HMV and lots more), and soon in other countries.

Discography

Albums

* "The Death Of A Man Called Icarus" (Subsound Records, 2007)

EPs

* "Zeroin" (Self-produced, 2002)
* "Sophisticated" (Self-produced, 2004)

External links

* [http://www.zeroinsane.com/ Zeroin official website] in English.
* [http://www.myspace.com/zeroinband Zeroin official Myspace]