Dawn Of Defiance is the result of a hard work built in a past fulfilled by band disruptures, personal fights, inner torment, fierce angst and more of those delicious feelings, we, metalheads are used to feel and suffer daily. Here's the true story about me

Long time ago when I was just 16 years old, the dream of being on a heavy metal band was something that started to take place within the future goals of my life. It was a long - time cared dream. Unfortunately I didn't have the money to buy the needed equipment or the required skills to achieve

such a thing. Nevertheless those days have been the basis of what would became my current life project, even nobody noticed...


So I took my nylon string guitar and tried out some of the songs I was listening during those days from Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica, my first musical roots and references. So I sat one day out there, and tried out One, from Metallica. And I tried and tried until I learned how to play the melody, as well as with the process of singing and playing at the same time something that was almost impossible for me during such days

I continued then with some slayer songs such as Metal Storm/Face the Slayer, Crionics, Black Magic, and a whole bunch of other songs I can hardly remember right now after more than 10 years. I even tried to compose some music of my own, which wasn't so much different to what I was learning from Slayer or Metallica. It's very difficult playing fast riffs on a nylon string guitar when you don't even know too much of the instrument. But my love and passion for metal and the stubborn determination that always lead my steps forced me to overcome any obstacles I've found on my way...

I was in that situation, learning and composing new songs, chorus lines, intros on my nylon string guitar for more than one or two years, I can't really remember, until I got my first job and bought my long ever dreamed electric guitar. It was incredible at first, I must admit, the fact of being able to play (very raw and full of mistakes), the same songs I was doing on the nylon one and seeing how I was getting closer to the original sound. I didn't even know the palm - muting technique, essential for playing metal until Pablo Marichal, a friend, taught me how to do it, a long long time ago from now... My dream was about to start and take place

So one day with the seed of metal growing over and over in my young heart I called some friends. It was time to come up with a band. I really wanted to have a heavy metal project (still two sacred words for me). We composed some very thrash metal influenced songs, full of power and energy. I learned very much with this guys, specially the jam sessions with the drummer. I learned by my own a lot of music theory and composition during such days, mostly from my own ear

As usual, formation and personal conflicts lead that unknown band into a final rupture, after five or six months of good musical and friendship experience. I've just came home, alone and somehow confussed. The fact that I was playing better than before was the only thing left. I've decided to stay alone for a while practicing and rehearsing more and more, developing my own style, ranging from fast riffs, to very slow, dark intros and mid - tempos, to entire metal ballads, always in a very dark, deep, reflexive way. A thing was clear enough: music came to my life to stay. That's a thing I've learned from the very first day I've played the first notes on my guitar...

Two years passed away. Things started to change. I knew how to play my guitar this time, really faster than I could ever imagine, and I felt I would still have to try with another band. I remember in that period of my life I liked power metal a lot , so I called a friend, we found a female singer, we recruited a drummer and we started what would became my second musical project. Ferocity (as I wanted to name it), came alive. We came up together, played some power metal covers on the singer's garage, and I must admit we sounded very good, highly committed to our project. I was on the rythm and lead guitars this time as well as my friend. But for the second time, this band was doomed to fail anyway... Once again

Due lot of fights, and different opinions and perspectives, I personally left the band I've did created. Some months later, after I was out from Ferocity they disbanded. Unfortunately this rupture lead into more than a musical break up, but a friendship break up as well...

I found myself alone this time a bit concerned on what to do with my music in the future. Everytime I tried out finding members to created a band, I failed miserably. I was thinking that I was the problem, honestly. I still think I can't. At least these experiences leave you with a good positive lesson: you are always important to other people, and other people for you no matter the personal misunderstoods. You learn, you give, your receive. That's what it counts at the very end of the story

I was then in another project, totally divorced this time from power metal, completely focused in thrash / black with some other new friends I've met, but it was really something serious, as I wanted. As I always wanted. There was something missing. Something wasn't right. That's when I've started in the 2000 year a soloist project, based only in guitars, keyboards and vocals. It was a very simple music, but yet dark, reflexive. It truly showed me that my way was going to be in solitude, not with any band. That project was in fact, a transitional time in my musical career and, even I recorded a nine songs album, it didn't have too much importance, or relevance, for me or for the media. I was missing my true musical roots, the same that unchained what is nowadays reflected and visible within my music. The fury inside, the angst, the violence of my sound that only reflects what lies and still breathes inside

Honestly the idea of coming up again with another band to make thrash / death, crossed my mind but deep inside of me I always knew that it won't be possible. I can't work with other people, as simple as that. It would happen the same rupture again. I was enough tired to start up a new project with new people to then break up. Why not giving a step further based on my last soloist project experience ? Why not recording all the instruments myself, this time ? The answers to these questions is Dawn Of Defiance, this aggresive thrash / death metal project, mixed with obscure, often diabolical doomed metal atmospheres in eventually every melodic passage of my music

Now things are going to be this way, in solutide, for a long, long time.