To make a long, long story short...
Yep, is borning in these days, after months of a real labour, a new project, with the intention to pay homage to one of the best metal bands of the history:
MEGADETH...
To be honest, in the beginning it was more considered like a double tribute to Megadeth & Metallica, but, existing yet, in the worldwide underground scene, bands such as Creeping Death, Misery, Metal Militia, etc..., we didn't want absolutely to start a sort of useless and unproductive competition among the bands, so we have decided to go back to our real first love...
Guess everybody know how it's difficult to sell a product to ignorant promoters they don't know very well!!!
For this reason we had established to choose a more, hot to describe it... METALLICA look? :-) In order to keep quiet with songs like Nothing else matters also the more delicate ear, also because we consider Megadeth like a kinda Metallica's rib, so there was not a kind of interests' conflict. ;-)
Anyway, after a long and accurated promotion in the Italian underground, the final change, with the return to the original Megadeth-only tribute and the inevitable substitution (Unfortunately still in act...!!! ;-P) of the symbols and the official logo that was our trademark...
Born more as a joke this project in reality has started to become famous in the
eighbourhood, due to performances really close to the originals and for the spontaneous charge seeable executing the songs... Has been so decided to make an attempt to check the interest among audiences and local promoters with very positively surprising results...
To make it short we have kept collecting compliments till today, thing very rare considering the well known proverbial envy of the town... LOLOLOL , so we've been motivated to produce seriously the birth of a real discographic project, also if little-little, seeing we'are nobody on the world scene unfortunately..... :-)
With all the good intentions, and a lil' bit of luck, we've prepared a verious live-set necessary to conquer the opinion of the many different typologies of fans, that the cloned band has created with the passing time and styles, who likes the oldies and goldies from Killing is my business and Peace sells, who adores Countdown to extinction or Youthanasia and also who preferes the newest material from Risk and The world needs a hero, trying, at least in the beginning to satisfy everybody's tastes, as the
eal original band would do anyway in the shows, to eventually modify after the live-set, following the comments and suggestions received, such as a sort of juke-box... :-)
We after decided to represent the event with the symbolic image of the real first unborn record from original Metallica's, including Dave Mustaine as lead guitarist, well known by the real fans of both bands as Metal up your ass...
In the end we have recorded and produced a first promotional 21 minutes MiniCD, obviously titled, as you can imagine, Metal up your ass.
We started to build the official web-site or the project, using for the moment the same image of the gigs' posters as a welcome page, and after we've started to spread the news, that, after going round and round, has reached the ears of many of the Megadeth's worldwide fans, thru the chatroom of the official www.Megadeth.com site, the Hangar 18, and some ribute-coworkers in the States and around, so now they're helping us to organize an historical enterprise, at least for what I know of the Italian musical history...: a mini-tour of about two weeks in their countries, Texas, New York, Canada, England and Croatia, to be precise!
For what I remember, very few people from Italy have tried this experience, bringing to our cousins their own music, and now we're shaking to the core for the fear!!! ;-)
But we start to be aliked also by the oversea's fans, with a slow a patient propaganda through the world's many official and unofficial web-sites of the two super-bands...
First goal ?
We're yet included in the lists of ArtistDirect (http://www.artistdirect.com), the site chosen by Megadeth, but also by Metallica, to sell officially their records and merchendising online, but also, and not for nothing, one of the biggest web-site to buy music online of the whole world; you just need to type the name Axtra in the Search - Artist folder and... ...You'll see... ;-P
STOP!, when I start to talk about Axtra... Forgive me, please, I'm a natural chatter when it comes to what I like, anyway, here You have all the history about Axtra from the beginning.
Thanx,
Eddie.
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