Mike Vignali was the guitar player of Metallo Pe(n)sante, a doom metal band with jazz influences active from 1990 to 1994. In the past he made comics collaborating with Enrico Teodorani (creator of Djustine), whose drawings he often inked. Between the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s Vignali directed some independent short horror films. He writes horror novels and stories.