Core (28)

°Core° formed in the beginning of 1999 in Rome, Italy, and recorded their first homonymous demo cd in the summer of the same year. 5 wasting tracks (in the style of Slipknot, Korn and Machine Head) that won praise among the national press and let the name °Core° to be known in Italy and particularly in Rome. After a long season full of exhibitions in the most important Rome rock clubs, the band recorded another demo cd, "Yokozuma", with 6 more experimental tracks, in the summer of 2000. Other exhibitions and then, after a failed contact with an english label, two members left the band. Dan (vocals) and Salva (guitars) succeeded in going on with Nik (bass and electronics), Janga (drums) and Ganesha (dj) and finally °Core° recorded another demo cd, "Smell", in October 2001, with more melodic tracks with a new sound. Other exhibitions (one with Linea 77 at Black Out rock club in Rome) and a lot of success in Rome and not only, until a new contact with an italian label (failed) and the presences, as sound track, on a surf video carried out by the website www.surfcorner.it. Then, Janga and Ganesha left the band and now "Sealed in a Box" is the new work in which Dan, Salva, Nik and Mark (drums) try to propose a more particular and personal sound.