STEFANO RUTOLINI
He was born in Fermo in 1996. He started playing the drums at the age of 11 and immediately had a strong interest in genres such as Hard Rock, Thrash Metal and Hardcore Punk. At the age of 13 he enrolled at the Lizard Music Academy in Porto San Giorgio, initially under the guidance of the teacher Andrea Martella and later with the teacher Michele Lelli. In the meantime, he begins to make his first concerts around Italy with a hardcore punk band from Fermo, Walk into the Storm. In 2013 he was called to be part of Hatred (Thrash Metal band active since 2001), starting a solid live activity around Italy. From 2013 to 2015 he plays with Spirale, a Sludge / Doom Band from Macerata. With them he recorded the single “Ossa” at the MAM Recordings Studio in Cuneo in collaboration with Gionata Mirai (guitarist of the Teatro degli Orrori); he wins the 2014 edition of “Mangiadischi unheard music contest” and he records their first album, the homonymous “Spirale”.
In 2014 he joined Baphomet’s Blood, a Speed Metal band active since 2003, already established in the underground world metal scene. After recording the band’s fifth album (“In Satan We Trust”), he started doing many tours with them in Italy and in Europe, playing in many important metal festivals like Old Grave Fest (Romania), Heavy Metal Espectros (Spain), No Compromise Fest (Belgium), Black Silesia Festival (Poland), Der Detze Rockt (Germany) and Vilkų Žiema (Lithuania), sharing the stage with famous metal bands like Diamond Head, Archgoat , Asphyx, Gehennah, Omen and Metal Church. In January 2018 joins the STORM