1998 After testing some musicians, they choose Roberto Rastelli (drums) and Lorenzo Pimpini (guitars) to complete the line-up. Release of their first EP “Mind is blind” in November.
1999 The band starts playing out of its region and goes on writing songs that will be recorded between December and January.
2000 Release of the second EP called “Existence” and change of the name into STEALTH. Rastelli leaves the band and will be replaced by Federico Governatori.
2001 Release of “Stealth”, the first full-length album of the band; tour with more than 30 shows between 2001 and 2002.
2002 Pimpini leaves Stealth to devote himself to soloist projects; Nazario Campofiloni, emerging musician of the area, becomes the first guitarist.
2003 The band restores its live activity and starts writing the 9 songs that will be recorded in the studios of ZdB, an independent label from Latina that works with professional and unsigned artists. After recording sessions Governatori decides to drop. It’s Mirko Antolini the new member, the ideal drummer for the sound of the band.
2004 Release of the second album “Check this out !”
2005/2007 The “4 maniacs” start playing to promote the new album but during the summer 2006 Campofiloni decides to leave the band. In a few months Marco Scocco is identified as the new temporary guitarist and he allows Stealth to finish the tour including some shows in northern and eastern Europe.
2009 Just after starting the “Cover this tour !” Marco Scocco leaves the band. After 7 years of music alone Lorenzo Pimpini decides to be reunited to Stealth. It’s a new beginning……
2010 New change! David Gasparetti, metal drummer of the area, replaces Antolini. Tour with various shows in Italy and Europe. At the end of the year release of “Alive for the live”, live album recorded in Kiev on october and published by CPSR/Venus
2011 Release of the single “Boiler”
2012 After some gig in Italy the band starts recording the new album
2014 Release of ‘Fight For Your Faith’ published by Sliptrick Records
2015/2016 After a gig in Rome in 2016, the drummer David Gasparetti decided to leave the band. Following auditions the band welcomed Michele Cipolletta as new drummer at the end of November 2016.
2017 The band celebrates 20 years of music by releasing the DVD Rom “Since 1997”
Stealth is:
Daniele Gorbini Bass/Background vocals
Michele Cipolletta Drums
Lorenzo Pimpini Guitars/Keyboards
Ivan Lattanzi Vocals/Guitars/Gtr Synth/Background groovewww.stealthattack.it
1.Thanks for your time. Tell us about your band and what you do for your band.
Me, as Ivan Lattanzi, I am the main songwriter, main vocalist and guitarist of Stealth.
Just after me and Daniele formed the first line up of Metal Militia
during spring 1997, Lorenzo Pimpini (guitars) and
Roberto Rastelli (drums) joined us at the beginning of the
following year. This has been the line up until summer 2000.
We changed name into Stealth during spring 2000 while the
original line up was still in place. We commonly agreed
to change name because at that time we felt like we were
to closely associated with Metallica and even though we were
at that time performing few Metallica songs, we already released
2 EPs of our own music. So we changed into Stealth to avoid
people thinking we were just a cover band.
2.When did you decide you wanted to be in a band?
At the age of 16. I grew up listening to mainly metal,
from thrash old school to classic power style, to industrial,
nu metal and death. My prefer ones are Iron Maiden and
Metallica (both until early 90s) Pantera, Sepultura, Fear Factory
and Machine Head. Surely all these bands pushed me to form a band.
3. What is different about being a musician than you imagined?
It's hard. At the present the majority of metal bands here in Italy are
formed by people of our age which means more or less they
have been formed during the 90s.
There are much less younger bands and that’s probably due
to many different reasons. First of all probably the fact that
big international metal bands are all from the 70s/80s,
so there hasn’t been new generations taking over.
Probably it’s more difficult for a teenager today to form a band
and find venues where to play and get known to the public.
Until 10 years ago there were much more chances to play live in pubs,
festivals an so on that not today.
4.What gear do you use and why?
I have several guitars, from Ibanez to Jackson and also some classical
and acoustic guitars. I also play the guitar synth to make our songs more
interesting and also sometimes I like adding some groove and FX effects into
our tracks
5. What music do you listen to that would surprise people?
I listen to all genres of music. From classical to folk to alternative.
Especially now I like electronic music. I think it could be the next step for
my band.
6. How do we find your music and merch to buy?
You can find our on line official store at our website www.stealthattack.it;
here you can also listen to our music for free. If you want buy our albums
in digital format you can find them on all the main platforms like Amazon, Spotify,
iTunes etc...
7. How did you get a record deal? Or do you want a record deal or are you DIY?
I used to live in London for 5 years. Here I was well connected with the
underground scene and I met with my friend and brother Ays Kura, singer of
the band Die Kur in which I played for 3 years. He helped me a lot with Stealth
and I signed a distribution deal with his label NMTCG.
8. What bands do people compare your music to?
I think our latest album sound like Fear Factory and Machine Head with also some
influences from Metallica and Iron Maiden. In general we take inspiration from
all the 80s and 90s heavy metal artists.
9. Are you pro Spotify / streaming services ? Or do you think it hurts sales?
All our songs are free streaming on our official website; the music industry
has changed during the last 2 decades and there is nothing that we can do.
10. What’s the ultimate goal for the band?
We’re working on new material and we’re quite ready to record it.
We don’t know if there will be a single, an EP or an album but
we should be ready to release something new soon.
We’re recording some of the gigs that we’re playing and probably
we’ll be ready to release another live album soon.
11. Will we see you tour?
We toured UK and Eastern Europe recently.
It’s been a good experience and it allowed us to grow up in live
performing and as a band too. Especially the shows in London,
South of England and Croatia have been amazing.
People really appreciated our music there and we hope to play in
those places again soon. When you play live gigs you always aim to
promote yourself and your work in the best way you can.
It’s the final step in promoting an album.
12. Who would you love to tour with?
I tell you the same artists that inspired me on my latest album, so Fear Factory
Machine Head, Metallica and Iron Maiden.
13.What is your favorite song of yours and why?
I really like playing ‘7 Hours Under Fire’ and ‘Perpetual War’.
These two songs represent a lot to me.
I wrote both the lyrics and the majority of the music and I think
they both hit the concept of the album.
Especially on ‘Perpetual War’ I spent more than two years just
to write the lyrics. I think it really gives the idea of the actual
situation in the Middle East area. Religion extremist and economical
interests go at the same pace and I hope I expressed well the very
difficult situation this area is living from years.
14. Why should people take the time to listen to your band over the thousands of other bands?
I think Stealth is different from other bands mainly in terms of
composition. We are all good composers and we are very careful and
meticulous during the song writing process. We don’t leave anything
to chance.
We listen to every part of each song many times before we record
and if we feel like it doesn’t work at one hundred percent than
we change it again. Also another thing that makes us different is
our sound. We started playing thrash metal during the end of the
nineties as a quartet with two guitars, bass, drum and vocal.
But we added more instruments during the following years.
Personally, I started playing with a guitar synth from the
second album ‘Check This Out!’ and started working on the background
grooves too. Also, I started adding some folk instruments in our
latest album and this made the sound really captivating and original.
15.What are your favorite music websites labels podcast etc?
I follow a lot of music sites. Particulary I like Nuclear Blast as label
and the UK based radio Hard Rock Hell
16. Is imagery important to you? Do you judge albums by the cover?
Yes I judge albums by the cover sometimes. But I prefer to listen to the music
and often what you can see on a cover album doesen't represent the band totally
17.If you could choose a cover song your band mates would hate what would it be?
Bleeding Me from Metallica
18.Is the record or live show more important?
Both of them
19. Name 3 people dead or alive you would want to play your music for.
Ludwig Van Beethoven, Freddie Mercury, James Hetfield
20. Lemmy Ozzy Dio and Rob Halford in a cage match who wins?
Lemmy! No doubt!
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