1991 Carlos
receives his first Drum kit as a present by a musician/painter friend
(Ronaldo Farolfi); it's a white ACTION DRUM 5 pieces
Jazz edition set composed by salvage stands and cheap cymbals. Due
to his tender age period, Carlos has no possibilities for attending
drum lessons at musical institutes, because these schools are located
too far from home and the drums lesson times are not easy to attend
by Carlos ‘cause the school time and the job times of his parents;
so, he starts his self-taught musical journey reading books and following
musician’s skills every time he finds the opportunity.
1992 Brusasco (Turin), he starts
the INDWELLERS, a band conceived by the help of his friend
MARCO CARNISIO; thanks to this Carlos begins playing
the drums sharing a five members band. “Rock n’ Roll”
by Led Zeppelin is the first song they play together; finally the
band shows a set list composed by Italian top rock songs and International
hits.
1993 Carlos
is well motivated for buying is first pre-professional Drum Set: a
Pearl Export White Colour, Bass Drum 22”x16” - Toms 12”,13”-
Floor Tom16” – Steel Snare 14”x6/5” completed by SPIZZ and Paiste
402 cymbals. In the future there will be added a Pearl Drum Rack, Toms 8”, 10”,
14” and a full Paiste 2002 cymbals set.
Carlos
tries to turn Indwellers band style into Heavy Metal music; several
line up changes and the split of the band is done! “Sound in House”
Demo Tape is the only memory of this period featuring all the band's
songs.
1994 Casale
Monferrato (AL), High school time, Carlos becomes friend of Paolo Perani;
They managed a Xmass concert for their school
in the way to play a different music for Xmass school event. Carlos
joins Paolo’s band for the event exclusively. After the 23/12/1994 concert,
Paolo Perani and his band ask Carlos to join the band thanx to his
attitude. SLIDE FASTENER (Candia Lomellina –
Pavia) is well built; Iron Maiden, Metallica and AC/DC cover band as
the first target; so, Carlos starts playing in Pavia area clubs and thanks
to his quick ability in learning songs, he begins to be well known in
the north of Italy.
1995 On June 22nd “Just a Cover Band” is out: the first
Demo Tape recorded at “Tempio Sound” in Brandizzo (TO), Slide Fastener
monicker spreads its name and Carlos is requested by the first side-project
bands in Piedmont and Lombardy.
1996 A
lot of collaborations during this year, Carlos and Gigi Androne
(Slide Fastener’s Bassist) have several bands to perform with. On October,
Carlos splits with Slide Fastener for dedicating his own to new music
and artists.
There
is no time to relax and POWER, the
band of Roby Roccatello and Max Civitate, calls Carlos to replace their
drummer and going on. So, Carlos is engaged to play with musicians
that are part of italian underground music with a lot of experiences
on syage. He follows them on tour and he
records the drum parts for their album in Turin at SEPOLCRETA studio
by Marco Strega.
1997 Carlos understands that
his person is well known in the Piedmont, Lombardy and Ligury area
and starts giving drum lessons.
In
Asti (Piedmont) with Luca Bincoletto and Beppe Gallina they start
a band that will be named MADWORK in the next 2000.
1998 Carlos
produces DEMONARCHIA, a band of Death Metal music composed by
neo-musicians; It’s a great trial for Carlos for bringing
those guys on stage like a pro-band. The first concert is
scheduled for 07/05/1998 in Trofarello (TO) at “ Il Peocio”
(www.ilpeocio.com) and the performance is the best they can, the audience
is extremely satisfied.
On October 10th, Carlos is
requested for joining SKYLARK band (www.skylarkrock.com) during
a show at “Pub 4 Assi” in None (TO- Piedmont) by Eddy Antonini from
Milan; so he starts studying for the first time the double foot pedal
technique using a Power Shifter Pearl Pedal.
1999 The Milan band finalizes
the “Divine Gates” album with the old drummer and Carlos becomes
the official drummer on May for the promotional tour: “Divine
Gates – Part1: Gate of Hell”.
On
July THUBAN asks him to play some gigs for the “Zetgeist”
album's tour and he's engaged to record at Dracma Recording studio (www.dracma.com) “Three Roses
in Black” mini CD.
Carlos
gets the VIC FIRTH endorsement thanks to Dario of “Magazzino Musicale
Merula” (www.merula.com) and Mr. Gianluca Aramini (www.aramini.net).
2000 January:
Carlos is called by LUCA SIGNORELLI for joining the historical BRAINDAMAGE band
(www.braindamage-band.com); the band needs to
promote the “Collapse” album and has a lot of concerts to perform.
On June, Carlos moves to Zenith
Recording studios in Lucca (Tuscany) for recording the next Skylark's
album. On July he follows them to Spain for
a gig at “Rock Machina Festival” in Moncofa (Valencia) in front
of thousands people (Running Wild headlines the festival) where he
receives many credits.
On November 20th is
out the second part of the DIVINE GATES: Gate of Heaven. Carlos
appears in the band shots, in the official line up and during all the
album promotion.
2001 On June, Michele Sbaragli's AFFLICTION band (http://stage.vitaminic.it/main/affliction6
- Perugia , Umbria) contacts him for recording the drum parts of their
Mini Cd.
On
July TEHOM band from ASTI is out with a first album called “Dark
D(h)ope”, Carlos appears as a Guest on
the tracks “The Mask” and “Three Roses In Black”, Thuban’s songs.
On October Carlos records four
tracks for Affliction band at Sound Park Studio (www.soundparkstudio.it)
in Ponte S.Giovanni (Perugia-Umbria) and just after his back home,
the Beppe Rosso’s WINGS OF FIRE band is the next collaboration
to work on; Carlos suggests them to turn into a EUROPE Tribute
Band because they got a lot of Europe songs in their track list.
On November
12th “Princess’ Day” album is out (the first SKYLARK album recorded
with Carlos), the results of the album are great, like the previous
album, this one jumps the first chart position in Japan in the imported
album charts.
2002 On January Affliction MCD called “AFFLICTION” is out, Metal
Magazines and Web ‘Zines review it very well.
On March 15th, 16th and 23th,
Carlos with Skylark perform at the “Italian Attack Festival”,
three nights in north of Italy co-headliner with Labirynth and White
Skull; the satellite tv channel Rock TV (www.rockweb.it) films
three songs during the Milan's show on day 16th.
On April 10th, Carlos is on
air at Data Base (Rock TV Show) with some members of Skylark.
In
the first part of June, he records the drum parts for MADWORK band's
Mini CD (Asti-Piedmont, www.madwork.net).
On June 22th, in Hamburg (Germany),
Carlos performs with Skylark at “Headbanger’s Open Air” (www.headbangers-open-air.de)
and the 26th he enters the Realsound Recording studio in Milan for
recording session for the next Skylark's albums.
On September 21st, Carlos
and Wings of Fire play in Parma at “Corte Del Sol” club during the V°
Europe Convention powered by ESC: Europe Official Italian Fan Club
(www.europe-the-fanclub.com). There are the Europe’s
bassist and the drummer Ian Haugland because he has to play with Talisman (Jeff
Scott Soto, Marcel Jacob, Fredrik Akesson) for promoting “Cats
and Dogs” album. Wings of Fire perform a Europe
song with John Leven; Carlos receives many credits by Ian Haugland
and Jeff Scott Soto.
On October 28th, He records
at A&A Studio in Turin (www.aarecordings.com), the drum parts for
the song “Dogged” included in the instrumental project ATTITUDE powered
by the shred guitarist Salvatore Vecchio.
On
December 2nd, the Madwork “Through The Farthest Times...”
is out; the album is well reviewed by the magazines and internet press
thanks to the final mastering choice made in Milan at the Nautilus
Studio (www.nautilusmastering.it).
On December 5th, Attitude
“Overflowing” album is out and Carlos appears as a special guest
with the well known percussionist Luis Casih and the guitarist Richard
Hallebeek.
2003 On April 28th, He flies with Skylark to Osaka and Tokyo for
performing two gigs powered by the Nipponic Label Hot Rockin (www.hot-rockin.com).
On
the end of May, Carlos and Madwork play the scheduled dates for the
“Through The Farthest Times...” tour.
2004 On May 26th “Wings” is out, the Skylark's album mastered
in New York by George Marino at Sterling Sound (www.sterling-sound.com)
and at the end of June, Carlos flies again with the band to Japan for
the Wings tour powered by the nipponic label Soundholic (www.soundholic.net)
for supporting the new album. On July, Carlos records three songs for
Skylark at Realsound studio included in their
first “Best of”. On September he records
the drum parts for the next Skylark's albums.
On December 22nd is on sale
“In the Heart Of Princess – A Neverending Story”, the
double album to celebrate 10 years of Skylark; all the songs are remastered
by George Marino at Sterling Sound.
2005 On June
Carlos stops his collaboration with Skylark.
On July he creates a 40 minutes
show using just his own instrument without adding music loop, with
no microphones and he performs in the main cities of the Turin Area
reaching a great success and new engagements for repeating the experience
of one drum man.
On
September 21st “Fairytales” is out, the last Skylark's album
with Carlos; here, he appears as a guest on the tracks “Red Little
Riding Hood” and Love”.
On October Carlos is requested
by AMETHISTA (www.amethista.com) for performing the “Black
Celtic Summit” sixth edition (Important Extreme Metal Event with
Negura Bunget, Mortuary Drape and Opera IX) and the “Brutality Fair”
on the same stage of Dismember.
2006 On
February “Realitale” is out, the first Amethista's album recorded
with the old drummer Luca T-1000 (Highlord – www.highlord.it) at Music
Lab (www.musiclabstudio.com) studio in Turin (www.musiclabstudio.com)
on September 2005; Carlos appears in line up and in the CD booklet
because he's gonna be the Amethista's official drummer for the whole
“Realitale” promotion and he's gonna record the next full-length album.
On April 29th, he enters the
Music Lab studio in Turin for recording a Drum Solo to use as a self
introduction; the relation with the music is inside this solo for understanding
that Carlos doesn't own to one music way but he is part of the music:
Technique, Dimension and Situation.
On May the killer guitarist H-GEORGE (www.h-george.com)
from Monferrato Area engages him for composing the drums parts for
his first self composed 4 tracks album.
On
September the 1st, the interior design album CARLOSMAN is officially
released by a 25 minutes drum solo show performed
by Carlos in Murisengo; the web site WWW.CARLOSMAN.COM is
born to explain better who is CARLOS and what CARLOSMAN is.
On September the 7th he receives
a good deal thanx to the composer MARIO GUIDA (www.myspace.com/marioguida)
from Crescentino (VC) for creating rock/blues songs in Italian language
and style; Carlos is engaged to perform the drums and being Mario's
art director for recording his first CD and preparing concerts.
On October the 27th he enters
Musiclab recording studio for recording NEUROTIC, H-George's
mini CD; thanx to his great recording studio experience, Carlos has
been engaged to produce the whole H-George work (recording, editing
and mixing).
On December the 4th he starts
to produce MARIO GUIDA's first CD using Stefano Moda's ORION recording
studio (www.myspace.com/orionrecordings) in Cavagnolo (TO)
On
December the 22nd the Casale Monferrato church corporation ask him
a help to perform a benefit show for Christmas
Event.
2007 January
the 12th, Mario Guida “DEMO 2007” is out completely recorded
by Stefano Moda and mixed by Carlos; on the
same day, Mario guida introduces his first record in Chivasso (TO – Italy)
performing an amazing professional show well reviewed by newspapers
of the zone.
January the 13th he enters Musiclab recording studio
in Turin to start AmethistA’ second full length album recording sessions: GRIMORION. Carlos
will take care of drums, bass and guitars recording/editing sessions; SIMONE
LAMPEDONE (Realitale’s producer) will record keys and voices
and he will make the main mix and the final mastering session. This
album will keep Carlos engaged ‘till the
end of 2007.
On February the hard rock
cover band RIDIN' ROCK (www.myspace.com/ridinrock), owned by
guitarist FABIO NOVARESE (Eden Beast), bassist VITTORIO DAL SANTO (Eden
Beast) and the singer ROBET HORSE (well known singer from Casale city
area – Monferrato), reaches a deal with Carlos to perform concerts
during the whole 2007.
On April Salvatore Vecchio’s IVORY “PROMO
2007” (www.myspace.com/ivorymetalband) CD is out and good review
results from music webzines and newspapers arrive. Carlos wrote
the drums parts for this album.
May
the 1st Carlos stops his activity with Mario Guida and after a two
hours directed concert from the first note
to the last one, Carlos gives to Mario the right way for going on with
his music.
On June according to H-George
he produces a documentary video about H-George’s music (Alcoholic
Thrash Metal) for adding it to the album release: “NEUROTIC”
On
June the 18th he reaches TEMPLE OF NOISE recording studio (www.templeofnoise.net)
to Rome for a final mixing about two bonus tracks of AmethistA; he
wanted a different sound for these songs and so he decided to use Christian
Ice experience to produce these songs. The titles of this pair of songs will be revealed when GRIMORION
album will be release and they will be more catchy than the other stuff.
On
August H-George documentary video starts and Carlos takes care about
the whole art direction.
On September Carlos and Stefano
Tappari record FLEGIAS’s voice (Necrodeath) at CAPT.WOOFER
STUDIOS (www.captwoofer.com) in Saluggia (VC) to produce a radio
version of the future rappresentative song of AmethistA: AUGUSTA
TAURINORUM.
On September the 28th Carlos needs to have
relax and so he flies to Florida (U.S.A.) to reach his Carlosman;
on September the 30th he was being in a bar close to the south area
of Orlando to have some beers, hearing good live music but….he starts
a music jam session with the band there and then he explodes in a
drum solo for twenty minutes. A nice success well confirmed by the audience there they put Carlos
as the guest of the night there giving him many credits.
On October the 10th, thanx
to www.myspace.com/carlosman_com, Carlos meets the rock guitarist/composer FERRO (www.myspace.com/ferro)
in Miami; they had some jams at CASA PANZA performing other musicians. This confirms how MUSIC is always on the same way of CARLOS.
On October the band MIJO’s ashes from
Turin decide to have a come back calling Carlos to start a new project
of HARD CORE music named NECK THROUGH (www.myspace.com/neckthrough).
On November thanx to Luigi
Secchi and ROCK LAB (www.rocklab.net) services in Turin,
he produces the H-George’s video editing.
On December the 22nd he produces
a MUSIC WORK END PARTY at ROCK ‘N ROLL music club in Turin performing AmethistA and H-George concert
hoping to see a good future about these bands for the next 2008.
On
December the 28th it’s time to produce a new band and so he enters
the Musiclab recording studio in Settimo Torinese close to “La Suoneria”
for realizing the first Demo CD of the new party punk band FORTUNE
FOR TUNE from Monferrato Area.
2008 On January
the 1st, he confirms his positions about the following bands:
H-GEORGE – Drummer, art director
and co-executive producer till 2010
AMETHISTA – Drummer and art
director for the whole 2008 and 2009
NECK
THROUGH – Drummer ‘till
the end of May 2008
RIDIN'
ROCK – Drummer for the
whole 2008
The
whole 2008 is spent on tour with his bands starting from Januray the 4th till
December 19th.
On February the 2nd deals
with GUS GABARRO (ex-White Skull) to build a new band sounding
CLASSIC POWER METAL and recording a demo CD to send the labels only;
the band is called OVERMASTER (www.myspace.com/overmasterband)
On February 19th becomes a
member of TRE-T (www.tre-t.org) organisation for powering MONFERRATO
AREA and showing his love for this amazing country.
On March 26th the first edition
of ALMANACCO DELLE BAND ASTIGIANE powered by Asti county to
promote the artists in Asti county is pubblished and Carlos is included
with a large detailed page on him.
On April 7th, Carlos enters GREEN
RIVER recording studio in Cavaria (VA) for recording the OVERMASTER's
demo drum parts: 4 songs
On August 1st, starts the H-GEORGE's
full length album recording sessions at Musiclab Recording Studio in
Settimo Torinese: "SLAVE OF SOCIETY" is starting.
On December 19th, everything
done during the recording sessions of the H-George's album is ready
for being mixed and mastered by ANNIHILATOR's mastermind: Mister JEFF
WATERS at watersound studio inc. in Ottawa, Ontario - Canada
2009 On January
the 3rd the director DAVIDE CELORIA ask him to be part of the
next CELORIA's FILM movie he's gonna work on in summer 2009 featuring
vampires and deaths; Carlos could play the role of a vampire hunter.
On January receives his files
totally mixed and well mastered: this is a great deal! collaborating with
an excellent V.I.P. like Jeff Waters taught him a lot.
On April 4th helps the well
known guttural death metal band EDEN BEAST (www.myspace.com/edenbeastdeathmetal)
performing one gig in Brescia.
On April 30th Carlos joins
a new band from Como/Varese: 1987 Whitesnake Tribute Band; as
the name displays, the band is a tribute to David Coverdale's band,
more informations browsing www.myspace.com/1987tributeband.
On May Carlos starts to follow
a correct diet and doing gym for better playing his next role: vampire
hunter, scheduled for July.
On July He's ready to catch
the vampire and the whole staff is proud of this new engagement giving
Carlos nice credits, posting awesome congratulations for the dedication
he showed in and the professional attitude played anytime; some pix
are available in Carlos' Flickr page and the movie release is scheduled
for the next year.
On August he set better his
You Tube channel arranging videos and uploading a new way for sharing
music worldwide: PLAY WITH ME videos available on www.youtube.com/carlosmancom
On September 10th enters FEAR
Recording Studio in Alfonsine (RA) for recording the drum parts
of the very first OVERMASTER's album featuring Gus Gabarrò (voice), Pino
Sicari (Guitars), Dimitri Oldani (Bass) and Alexandros (Keys).
True rock power metal co-produced by CRUZ DEL SUR label from Rome;
the release date is scheduled for March 2010.
On October 4th is out the brand
new H-Single "KILL YOUR SON" taken from the record
that Carlos produced one year ago about, for introducing the new era
of the H-GEORGE band.
On
November “SLAVE OF SOCIETY” is out and strikes again
receiving excellent reviews by the mags and web press.
On December 3rd, Carlos got
an e-mail by the master mind of the legendary thrash metal band from
Canada ANNIHILATOR (www.annihilatormetal.com).
2010 January
7th, Carlos flies to Ottawa for meeting and dealing with Jeff Waters
for becoming the ANNIHILATOR 2010 Touring Drummer.
March
30th, the very first ANNIHILATOR picture appears worldwide and Carlos
is officially the Touring member for promoting the 13th studio album
of the band during the 2010.
On April MADNESS
OF WAR by OverMaster band is out featuring ALEXANDROS (Highlord,
AmethistA, Opera IX, Sound Storm) at the keys, DIMITRI OLDANI (Edge
of Forever) at the bass.
June
19th HELL FEST in Clisson (France) is the first show that Carlos performs
with ANNIHILATOR
On July with ANNIHILATOR plays
the following summer festivals: Rockweekend (Sweden) 8th - Sonisphere
Festival (Spain) 10th - Masters of Rock (Cz. Rep.) 17th and Kavarna
Rock (Bulgaria) 25th
On September 29th with ANNIHILATOR
starts a 5 rehearsal days in Frankfurt for performing the TOTAL ANNIHILATION
EUROPEAN TOUR 2010; this is a headline tour that starts from October
5th till November 25th around Europe.
2011 On February,
due to several credits received by the album “Slave Of Society”, the
band H-GEORGE deals with buil2kill records for releasing “SLAVE OF
SOCIETY Super H-Edition” (Slave of Society + Nerurotic) on May
March
22nd, the movie produced by DAVIDE CELORIA
is released and the title is VAMP
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