Strana Officina

[a1713369] started its activity in the middle of the seventies in Livorno (a city close to Pisa). Founder members are the two brothers [a1819026] (guitar) and [a1819022] (drums) with bass player [a1819023]. They started playing their favorite artists ([a373460], [a84752], [a110593] and [a144998]) after work.
Then the band, with first singer [a2106055], wrote songs as "Viaggio in Inghilterra"(recorded on the first album in 1984), "Non Sei Normale", "Profumo di puttana", "Il Corvo è Là", "Sole, Mare, Cuore" (never published but constantly played in live performance) and "Non C'è Più Mondo" (recorded in 1991 on Cappanera brothers solo album).
In 1982 [a1819025] (new singer) and [a1819024] (2° guitarist) joined the band and [a1713369] played, together with [a316312] and other bands, at the first and legendary Italian heavy metal festival: the “Certaldo Fest”. The following year the song “Non Sei Normale” appeared on “[m1017761]”, a compilation published by the magazine “Rockerilla”.
In 1984 they released their first EP "[m804354]” containing four songs sung in Italian. Due to insurmountable problems in negotiating with foreign labels, the band swapped the songs’ texts in English and in 1986 a new EP “[m754242]” is released.
Finally in 1988 the band completed its first LP "[m700286] ", which confirmed [a1713369] as the most representative heavy metal band in Italy.
On 23 July 1993, after 10 years of activity and shows around Italy, the two brothers [a1819026] and [a1819022] passed away in a car accident. This tragic event lead to the split of the group, which was writing material for a new release. However, from autumn 1993 until 1995, the band held a commemorative tour with [a545413] (grandson of Cappanera brothers) on guitar and [a2106052] (son of [a1819022]) on drums.
In 1995 was released posthumously “[r4849372]”, where is concentrated the entire production of [a1713369] (excluded “Burnin' Wings, the English version of the song “Piccolo Uccello Bianco”)
After 10 years of silence, [a1713369] participated as headliner at the major Italian metal festival, and one of most important in Europe: the “Gods of Metal 2006”. In March 2007 they started to record an album, released in June “[m735577]”, containing the most famous English songs, “Autostrada Dei Sogni” and two unedited songs: “Officina” and “Profumo Di Puttana”(written in the middle of ’70).
In 2008 is published a 4 LP limited box set "[r2125980]” composed by the two EPs and the LP plus another vynil with unreleased and rare songs, which were later published in a specific release ([r6661817]).
It is only in 2010 that the band publish its first studio album ([m497355]) with unreleased songs and two unedited old songs.