Perseo Miranda
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Perseo Miranda is a vocalist and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

, and founder of the Italian heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Perseo Miranda.

He's been active since the 1980 but only recently obtained a discrete attention in the music scene.

Biography

He started in 1980 participating in various radio show (in particular Italian channels ‘’Rai 2’’ and ‘’Rai 3’’), but his main passion was the music, which he regards as the main means of expression. He found inspiration in artists like Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

, David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 and Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...

.

In 1980 he released his first self-produced album, called Perseo Miranda and His Theatre, and the following year the CD single "I sayd I look away".

Then Miranda devoted himself to teaching guitar in various schools, recording some vocals in many pop rock albums and playing in many different bands (from hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 to heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

, punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

, gothic metal
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

, blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 and other generes).

He returned to the music scene in 2006, releasing the album Light and Darkness

Some Italian webzines, as Metallized.it, described it as a "classic heavy metal album with strong dark and gothic influences".

In 2007 Mirands released the album Evolution of the spirits and in 2008 Parallel Dimensions. The last one had some good reviews: Italian webzine OndaAlternativa noted some changes in the style, moving from gothic metal
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 to a kind of "trash-prog metal",.Powermetal.it described this work as hard rock music with modern ideas, expecial in the guitar work.

In 2010 Miranda signed for the Italian label Erga
Erga
Erga Edizioni, is a publishing company situated in Genova . It was founded on 1964 by Marcello Merli.-History:Erga started publishing some books about history and culture of Genova...

 Edition. Praise my day
Praise my Day
Praise My Day is Perseo Miranda's sixth album, released December 15, 2009 on Erga Editions. The album was recorded at Music Art studios on september-october 2009.-Track listing:# Praise My Day part 1# Praise My Day part 2...

 was the first Miranda's album produced by Erga
Erga
Erga Edizioni, is a publishing company situated in Genova . It was founded on 1964 by Marcello Merli.-History:Erga started publishing some books about history and culture of Genova...

 Edition.

This album gained attention from some Italian magazines. Rock Hard
Rock Hard (magazine)
Rock Hard is a heavy metal magazine originally released in Germany. It was founded in 1983 by Holger Stratmann and is dedicated to all styles of rock and heavy metal. The magazine has independent offspring with the same name in France, Greece, Italy and Spain....

said that "Miranda is one of the few artists that really sings and interprets in different ways, depending from the song atmosphere".

Under the same label Miranda released in 2011 the single CD (2 tracks) A silence that screams-In a Broken dreams, and some months later the CD A Silence That Screams
A Silence That Screams
-External links:* *...

. Some reviews such as Italia di Metallo judicated it as a pure heavy metal work with dark and progressive episodes.

Metal Maniac magazine judicated it as a hard and complex album, with hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

-heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 songs, but also progressive sounds.

The title track "A Silence That Screams", was also included in the Inferno Sounds compilation, attached to Inferno Rock magazine.

Other projects

Miranda wrotes 2 books in the field of astrology: Manuale di astrologia (translated Astrology Manual) (2001- Erga
Erga
Erga Edizioni, is a publishing company situated in Genova . It was founded on 1964 by Marcello Merli.-History:Erga started publishing some books about history and culture of Genova...

 Editions) and Gli astri dicono (translated Aster says (2003 - Erga
Erga
Erga Edizioni, is a publishing company situated in Genova . It was founded on 1964 by Marcello Merli.-History:Erga started publishing some books about history and culture of Genova...

 Editions).

Discography

  • Perseo Miranda - Perseo Miranda and his Theatre
    Perseo Miranda and his Theatre
    Perseo Miranda and his Theatre is the first album released by Italian singer and songwriter, Perseo Miranda. The album contains 7 tracks, and was released in 1980 under the label Lodger Records....

    (1980 - self produced)
  • Perseo Miranda - I Sayd I Look Away!
    I Sayd I Look Away!
    I Sayd I Look Away! is a single CD by the Italian singer-songwriter Perseo Miranda.It contains 1 track and it was released in 1981 on the Lodger Records label.-External links:* *...

    (1981 - self produced)
  • Perseo Miranda - Light and darkness
    Perseo Miranda Light And Darkness
    Light And Darkness is the third album of the Italian singer and songwriter Perseo Miranda. It contains 12 tracks and It was released on June 4 2006 under the label Lodger Records.- Tracce :#Light and Darkness#It's a Reality...

    (2006 - self produced)
  • Perseo Miranda - Evolution Of The Spirit
    Evolution of the Spirit
    Evolution of the Spirit is the fourth album by Italian singer-songwriter Perseo Miranda. It contains four tracks, in gothic metal style..-Track listing:#Evolution of the Spirit, Part 1#Evolution of the Spirit, Part 2#The Questions...

    (2007 - self produced)
  • Perseo Miranda - Parallel dimensions
    Perseo Miranda Parallel Dimensions
    Praise My Day is Perseo Miranda's fifth album, released December 15, 2009 on Erga Editions. The album was recorded at Music Art studios on August 2008...

    (2008 - Lodger Records)
  • Perseo Miranda - Praise my Day
    Praise my Day
    Praise My Day is Perseo Miranda's sixth album, released December 15, 2009 on Erga Editions. The album was recorded at Music Art studios on september-october 2009.-Track listing:# Praise My Day part 1# Praise My Day part 2...

    (2009, Erga
    Erga
    Erga Edizioni, is a publishing company situated in Genova . It was founded on 1964 by Marcello Merli.-History:Erga started publishing some books about history and culture of Genova...

     Editions)
  • Perseo Miranda - A silence that screams, in a broken dream (CD single,2010, Erga
    Erga
    Erga Edizioni, is a publishing company situated in Genova . It was founded on 1964 by Marcello Merli.-History:Erga started publishing some books about history and culture of Genova...

     Editions)
  • Perseo Miranda - A Silence That Screams
    A Silence That Screams
    -External links:* *...

    (2010, Erga
    Erga
    Erga Edizioni, is a publishing company situated in Genova . It was founded on 1964 by Marcello Merli.-History:Erga started publishing some books about history and culture of Genova...

    Editions)

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