lucertulas

LUCERTULAS
know no compromise. A sound so naturally powerful and incisive that heard live they challenge even the most hardened audience.
A wall of sound swallowing you up and hurling you into a world of distortion.
Rock-noise-punk-hardcore, most certainly angry, anything but blind…
The group was formed in 2003 by Christian Zandonella (guitar), Daniele De Vecchi (drums) and Sandro Crisafi (bass & Vocals).
In 2004 they released their debut album "Homo Volans" under the pseudonym Superlucertulas for the independent label 8mm Records.
This release resulted in gigs alongside such international acts as Oneida, Kid Kommand and Hella, as well as the first of their overseas tours, taking in France in Spring 2004 with their friends and contemporaries, G.I. Joe, followed by Germany in September/October 2005 with the American band Wounded Head.
Following this second tour, bassist Sandro Crisafi left the group, but was replaced by Federico Aggio in 2006 and the new line up duly changed its name to Lucertulas.
In April 2007, with the help of Giulio 'Ragno' Favero (Previously of One Dimensional Man, Putiferio and Teatro Degli Orrori), Lucertulas recorded their second album entitled "Tragol De Rova".
Ear splitting noise, razor sharp guitars cutting through vast ambient structures and obsessive rhythms pounding out psychedelic visions. Neither fashionable nor an exercise in the avant-garde, the album paves its own way, and was well received by the critics and public alike.
In June 2008 the groups line up changed once again with Daniele De Vecchi being replaced by Massimo Cettolin on drums.
In October 2009, after an intense period of gigging, (sharing the stage with the likes of Zu, Oneida, Red Worms Farm etc.) including a tour of France accompanied by the group Amavo, Lucertulas returned to the studio to begin recording their third and most recent album entitled "The Brawl".
Due for release in May 2010, the album includes four tracks sung in Italian and is available in the unusual format of CD + HANDPRINTED VINYL, housed in a limited edition cardboard packaging, thanks to a collaboration between ROBOTRADIOrecords and MACINADISCHIrecords.
This time around the sound is more rock with brief excursions into ambient-noise territory.
Its 13 tracks are more elaborately constructed, continuously channeling the Lucertulas fury, suggesting crude and bloody atmospheres, giving no respite to the listener before hurling them into an inescapable vortex of noise.
LUCERTULAS ARE: Federico Aggio (VOICE-BASS)
Massimo Cettolin (DRUMS)
Christian Zandonella (GUITAR)