Alessandro Nunziati
| Alessandro Nunziati | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Lord Vampyr/Vampir (Draculea) Lord Alexander |
| Born |
16 September 1972 Rome, Italy |
| Genres | Symphonic black metal, gothic metal, extreme metal, industrial metal, death-doom, thrash metal |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, novelist, record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, electric guitar |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Labels | Officina Rock, Zero Effect Records, Vampyria Records, Crushing Balls Records, Crank Music Group |
| Associated acts | Theatres des Vampires, Cain, Lord Vampyr's Shadowsreign, VII Arcano, Nailed God, Malamorte |
Alessandro Nunziati (born 16 September 1972), better known by his stage name Lord Vampyr, is an Italian musician, record producer and writer, famous for being the former vocalist of the gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires, as well as one of its founding members.
Nunziati was born in Rome, Italy on 16 September 1972. As a teenager, he studied accounting and computer programming at the II° liceo artistico di Roma, and also graduated in Psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome. His first musical ventures were with the death-doom band Sepolcrum, formed in 1988 and of which he served as the vocalist. Sepolcrum released three demo tapes before changing its musical style to thrash metal and its name to VII Arcano in 1995. In 1994, after recording a last extended play with VII Arcano that would be released in the following year, Nunziati left the band to form Theatres des Vampires.
In 1995, Theatres des Vampires' first demo tape, Nosferatu, eine Simphonie des Gravens, was released. The tape got the attention of record label Garden of Grief, which released their first studio album, Vampyrìsme, Nècrophilie, Nècrosadisme, Nècrophagie, in the following year. It was also in 1995 when Nunziati first donned his stage name Lord Vampyr; at the time, though, it was written with an I – "Lord Vampir". (In The Vampire Chronicles however, he would introduce himself as Lord Vampyr Draculea; it was the only Theatres des Vampires album in which he did so.) Initially a raw black metal band, Theatres des Vampires' musical style would gradually shift to a cleaner and more "produced" gothic metal as time went by.
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